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A Very Facebook Web 2.0 Summit

The Web 2.0 Summit took place this past week in San Francisco. While I participated in a few AOL sponsorship events, I also participated in Lobbycon. In my short time at the Summit, it appeared the Web 2.0 Summit seemed to be more of a "suit" fest while the Web 2.0 Expo, this past April, seemed to be much more approachable. Nonetheless, Facebook was all the buzz and Mark Zuckerberg spoke with John Battelle at the conference similar to how Mark Zuckerberg spoke with Mike Arrington a few weeks ago at TechCrunch40.

Snap: To Add Link Previews To Any Site

Snap an Idealab company located in Pasadena, California offers a product called Snap Preview Anywhere the ability to preview the links before you actually click them. I recently decided to add the feature to Somewhat Frank. With Snap Preview Anywhere links can be hovered over to display a thumbnail of the web site associated with the hyper-link. An example of the preview can be seen below.

Implementing the feature is a snap as you just need to add a snippet of code into your page or if you are a using WordPress you could leverage a WordPress Plug-in. Several sites are using the feature including TechCrunch, Monkey Bites and John Battelle's Search Blog - and now Somewhat Frank.