flickrSLiDR is a neat little tool that enables you to embed a Flickr slideshow on your website or blog. It’s very easy to use - you paste in the URL of the group or set and choose a size for the slideshow, and then you’re given a code snippet which you simply add to the webpage.

Here’s one I created for a set of photos I took in and around Marylebone High Street in London.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

I’ve tried out various Facebook applications over the last few weeks, but until today I hadn’t yet found one that’s impressed me enough to stick with it and keep it on my Facebook profile. The first one I think I’ll stick with is Friend Wheel - a clever way of visualising your social network on Facebook.

I came across Friend Wheel via cybersoc.com - check out Robin Hamman’s Friend Wheel here.

One of the blogs I read regularly - prblogger - recently reached its second birthday. To mark the occasion, prblogger’s Stephen Davies posted a recap of some of his favourite posts from the past two years. This kind of recap can be really useful for new readers and for regular readers like me too – it’s a great way of getting people to dip into the archives.

My favourite discovery is Stephen’s post on Firefox extensions from February 2006. Firefox is my preferred web browser, although I spend plenty of time checking sites in Internet Explorer as well. I’m already using the Google Toolbar and del.icio.us links extensions for Firefox, but most of the others that Stephen mentions are new to me.

I’ll definitely be testing out the Who is this person? add-on which allows you to highlight any name on a webpage and see matching information from LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google News, Technorati and other sites, as well as Screengrab which allows you to save whole webpages as images. If these live up to expectations then they’ll be incredibly useful and time-saving devices for me.

Take a look at the Firefox Add-ons website for a full list of extensions for the browser, or check out Stephen’s list of extensions for a quick overview of some of the most useful add-ons.