Lizzer Blog

If a picture is worth a thousand words, than how many words is Photobucket, the most popular picture-sharing site in the US, worth? That’s right, Lizzer users now have access to Photobucket’s library of over 7 billion pictures.

Photobucket also has a vast collection of animated gifs (unlike Google and Yahoo Images). This means you can now easily enhance your blog posts and emails with animated icons and images (as seen with the dancing lizard below…). To view and insert these animated gifs, simply add “gif” to your Lizzer search.

For those not familiar with Photobucket, we encourage you to check it out and sign up for a free account today to take advantage of all of their neat features, such as a photo editor, scrapbook and slideshow builders, and tools to let you easily share your slideshows on your blog or facebook/myspace page.

from photobucket

Lizzer is an incredibly powerful tool when you combine it with Docstoc, one of the largest online repositories of professional documents.  As of today, Docstoc is featuring Lizzer in the new features section of their site as a great tool to improve how users find, share, and preview documents online.

Docstoc users now have the best of both worlds. They can create and upload documents into their own account at docstoc. Then, when the mood strikes, they can simply user Lizzer to access their documents and embed them wherever they see fit.

As great as we think Lizzer is, it cannot create content out of thin air (though we are working on this…). Lizzer relies on great content services like Docstoc to help bloggers, emailers, and even Twitterers and Facebookers unlock their inner genius (apologies to the grammarians).

Interested in sharing YOUR content with Lizzer users? Just drop us a line!

We’re all familiar with that rush when you come across a web tool that’s not just interesting, but also useful.  Out of the hundreds of thousands of web applications, very few meet this criteria, let alone are free.  MakeUseoOf.com, a web 2.0 blog that searches out and highlights these sorts of web applications, recently reviewed Lizzer calling it the “must have browser bookmarklet for bloggers and web workers.”

MakeUseOf.com’s experts have reviewed and indexed hundreds of the top web and mobile tools for their tens of thousands of users.  Our team was excited to see Lizzer featured and hope it will help the MakeUseOf.com writers (and readers) with all of their web publishing exploits.

And, we’re not going to say anything about ending a domain name with a preposition.

Wikipedia defines Web 2.0 as “services that encapsulate the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content”, which really is Lizzer in a nutshell… a somewhat grandiloquent nutshell.   That being said, we were extremely excited to see that Lizzer was featured on Go2web20.net, a comprehensive directory of Web 2.0 applications and services.  You’ll find over 2,000 products on this site that have been analyzed and cataloged for easy reference.  We’re a big fan of the graphic interface and tagging system.   But we warn you - it can be quite addicting… like another web 2.0 repository we know.

¿Hace usted lizzer? Faites-vous lizzer? Do you Lizzer?

Yes, we used it as a verb (like Google), but now that Lizzer has an international presence, we think the little green guy can take his liberties.  Lizzer has fans in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and now Australia, and we’re looking for feedback from our international  users - comments, stories, gushing reviews, etc.   So tell us, how has Lizzer helped you?   Our goal is to have Lizzer on every continent, so if you know anyone in Africa or Antarctica that would benefit from using the Lizzer bookmarklet tool, let us know.

After months of development tweaks we are now ready to launch Lizzer beta (and this cool new site).  We have added several new content services, fixed some minor bugs, and made it much lighter on its feet -  to speed up all of your linking/embedding. We appreciate all of your Alpha feedback and encourage all of you Lizzer users to keep it coming for the Beta version! Please send all comments, suggestions, stories, and ideas to support@lizzer.com.

Keep your mouse near the refresh button as the beta version of lizzer will arrive soon. We’ve been working hard on the feedback you’ve provided and expect you will be happy with the results.

Our most recent post noted that we were featured on wwwhatsnew.com, a Brazilian Web 2.0 blog, and recently we added yet another country to our list with Lizzer being featured on the Italian  Feedmyapp Web 2.0 blog. The blog is managed by Extendi, a web design/development agency in Florence, Italy.  North America, South America, Asia and now Europe have been checked off Lizzer’s list. We are hoping to have Lizzer used in all 7 continents by 2010 so be sure to forward Lizzer on to your fellow bloggers in Australia, Africa, and Antarctica…

We are not exactly sure what this means, but we are extremely excited to see that Lizzer is featured on wwwhatsnew.com, a Brazilian Web 2.0 blog viewed by more than 1 million visitors each month.  Regardless of the country you live in or language you speak, the inconvenience of finding and embeding links when publishing content is universal.  We are pleased to see our tool being used all across the world and look forward to getting some international feedback!

We are excited to announce that Lizzer was named in Mashable.com’s  “10 Hot Bookmarklets That Put Plugins To Rest.” Mashable.com is the world’s largest social network blog and receives
more than 5 million page views every month.

“Links are what make the Web as incredible as it is. No question about it. So why not empower Web users with a superfast method to search for and establish links with sites and services and individual webpages that can help enrich their own publications. Lizzer does exactly that. If you’re a prolific blogger and you copy and paste hyperlinks from your journeys online with so much regularity that it really becomes a tiresome practice, this will take the edge off.

You might even say it’s a godsend.”