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This article has already gotten some librarian link-love, but a little more can't hurt (especially when it's full of quality advice). Here's a straight-to-the-point rundown of How to Embed Almost Anything in Your Website, from Digital Inspiration.
You'll see some familiar services making all this embedding possible (like Meebo Me and various Google services), but you may find reasons to take some new ones out for a spin too (like Issuu, Zoho, and Scribd).
Thanks to Cheryl for the tip!
Here's another tip for getting to know the right-click menu better. Hiding in plain view on the standard Windows keyboard is a special "Menu" key to activate the right-click menu for whatever is currently selected. It has the symbol for a menu and pointer, like so:
Try it out! Learning a few special keystrokes and keyboard key tricks can help you get work done faster, and it can be a life-saver if you ever have mouse problems. (Mice might work poorly when they get dirty, wireless mice can have their batteries die, and sometimes laptop touchpads are hard to control... so it doesn't hurt to know how to navigate with a keyboard as a backup.)