Stealing Scoble's Brain
To try out a couple of things, I made a widget called Search Scoble's Brain. You can see it in the right hand column of this blog.
This is a widget made with code from Google's new Co-op Search. Using Co-op search you can make your own search site, defining only those sites you want to use. You can enter sites manually, and I made a Widget Search site like this. But you can also import an OPML file to define what sites to search. So I decided to steal the legendary Robert Scoble's OPML file, from his Bloglines' Blogroll, and use that to create a unique Robert Scoble search site. The Co-op search site gives me the code for this search. I made the image myself! Bundled all this together and hey presto, I can 'search Scoble's brain'. Or something like it.
Seriously, you can now search on all the sites that Robert Scoble thinks are interesting.
And you can take this widget and put it on your own site, manually or using Snipperoo. Or make your own. Here's the code:
<div align="center"><img src="http://snipperoo.com/images/icons/scoblesbrain3.gif" width="150" height="182" alt="Scoble's Brain" />
</div>
<!-- Google CSE Search Box Begins -->
<form id="searchbox_005716045753694707681:b3k2zpnugws" action="http://snipperoo.com/scoblesbrain.html">
<div align="center">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="005716045753694707681:b3k2zpnugws" />
<input name="q" type="text" size="15" />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9" />
</div>
</form>
<div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_005716045753694707681%3Ab3k2zpnugws"></script>
<!-- Google CSE Search Box Ends -->
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