Slideshow + Twitter Ucubd Mashup

The blog from Pier59 Studios uses a Ucubd mashup to combine Slideshow & Twitter.

Here's how it looks in the blog-

Notice that the mashup sits conveniently on your blog with an inviting image & play button to drive interaction. Here's what you see when the play button is clicked-

This mashup has Slideshow on the left side, live Twitter feeds on the right, and an embed code at the bottom. Also, notice that the mashup loads on your blog so that users are not redirected to another site to consume the content. Instead, they return to your blog when close option is chosen on the bottom right corner.

How to build YouTube + Twitter/Amazon Mashups

Here's how you can quickly and easily build YouTube+Twitter or YouTube+Amazon mashup:

1) On the Ucubd templates page, first choose what kind of mashup you want to build. The templates page defaults to the Amazon Affiliates Carousel. You can also choose the Twitter or Amazon MP3 option from the bulleted list on the left side of the page.

2) Paste your YouTube embed code (or URL) into the embed window. After a few seconds, a preview of your mashup will display below the embed window.

3) At this point you can just click on the "Create Embed Code" button and your done!

4) Copy and paste your mashup embed code into the HTML of your blog.

Some extra options-

- At Step 1 in the Amazon mashup- In place of a YouTube video, you can tie an image to your Amazon Affiliates Carousel by changing the content type from "YouTube Video" to "Image."

- At Step 2- You can change the key words that are passed to Amazon or Twitter by inputting key words into the "Keyword Phrase:" box. For Amazon mashups, enter your Amazon Affiliate Code into the text box.

- At Step 2- Ucubd will automatically generate a mashup image (what your readers will click-on to open the widget) or you can upload a custom one if you'd like.

-At Step 2 in the Twitter mashup- You can customize the Twitter widget by controlling background colors and the colors of the Tweet links.