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How to say “Freddie Ljungberg in Swedish”

Here is a video taken at about 5am in Gothenburg city centre. Interesting how such a simple clip of, well, nothing really can be my most viewed video - beating The Kooks, The Arctic Monkeys and Get Cape! That must be either because it has a “how to..” title - or more likely because it is tagged with the words “Swedish” and “Girls”…

This done as a test for embedding YouTube videos straight into the page.

It seems that it is not possible to embed in the usual fashion because the system disables Javascript when running on WordPress.com like this is. (I simply can’t be arsed to setup hosting it myself.) However it is possible to embed YouTube videos using WordPress’s custom mark-up. See http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/how-do-i-post-a-youtube-video/ for more info.

video  syndication  YouTube

List of things I plan to do to this blog as a way of trying out various mashups, widgets, technologies etc. A sort of “statement of intent” I guess.

Stuff to integrate or embed

• Trippermap - Doh! Needs Javascript, won’t work on here
• FlickrMap - Is this embeddable? More research needed
• YouTube - Done
• Google Video - Done
• Delicious
• Furl
• Google Calendar
• Last.fm playlist

Enhancements to basic WordPress

• Tag Cloud
• Search

Stuff to have a go at and understand more about

• Tagging and seeding for Technorati
• Links and track-backs, comments on otherblogs etc
• Importing other RSS feeds

Stuff to write about

• Syzygy projects, successes etc
• Home projects done
• Rant about Apple screen