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This is hilarious. The guy has no idea that he is being punked by a magician in the datacenter he works for.
This video is quite funny. It is a cartoon satirizing the privacy intrusions of Google’s technology.
Here is a list of sites that you can submit your RSS feeds to. Submitting your feeds to these sites can help give some great exposure to your sites. Most submissions are free. Let me know if there are any sites I should add to the list.
BlogCollector – Free and SEO friendly
Chordata – Free
2rss – Free. Submission form near the bottom of the page.
FeedNuts – Free (Cool lookin’ site)
Feedcat – Free. Includes a tool to measure you audience.
NewsIsFree – Free submission. Manually approved.
WeBlogAlot – Free. Recip. might be required.
Syndic8 – Free
Plazoo – Free. Recip. appreciated.
Rssmad – Free. Form is at bottom right of page.
Feeds4all – Free. Recip required.
Blo.gs – Free
ReadABlog – Free
NewsMob – Free
OobDoo – Free
Xmeta – Free
RedTram – Free and paid listing.
AvivaDirectory – A bit pricey. Could be worth it though.
Blogoriffic – Free
Wingee – Small fee.
Rss001 – Free
AllBlogSpots – Free
FeedPlex -Free
Regator – Free
WasAlive – Free
SpicyPage – Free
Scribnia – Free
FeedListing – Free
Feedmil – Free
NewsMaster – Free
PressRadar – Free. Submit through contact form for manual approval.
RapidFeeds – Free
Today I was looking for a way to add social networking features to one of my blogs. I already know about Buddypress, but unfortunatly it only works for Wordpress MU and not a standalone install of Wordpress. Also, Buddypress themeing can be pretty challenging if you don’t want to use the default theme. I came across a brand new plugin called Mingle. This plugin was released just a couple of days ago and it is promising. I tested it out and found some bugs, but the creator fixed them promptly and it now works great. Although this plugin is very new, it has many of the features that make a great social experience for your users.
Mingle’s features include:
-Easy Setup and Install
-User Profile Pages
-User Friending
-User Profile Posting (for friends)
-User Profile Post Commenting (for friends)
-Friend Activity Pages (Much like Facebook’s activity feed.)
-Full Member Directory
-Login & Navigation Widget
-Random or Recent Users Widget
-Email Notifications
-User Email Notification Opt-Outs
-Best of all it’s free!
Another great part about this plugin is that it fits pretty much seamlessly into any existing Wordpress theme, which is another reason Buddypress doesn’t cut it for some.
Give it a try:
Author Homepage
Installation:
1. Upload ‘mingle.zip’ or the unzipped mingle folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Create a new page for: “Activity”, “Profile”, “Profile Settings”, “Friends”, “Friend Requests” and “Directory”. To do this look in the left sidebar in your Wordpress admin dashboard and look for “Pages” and click on add new. Add each of the mentioned page titles. Once you finish creating the new pages look at the settings area on your dashboard and you should see the Mingle menu. From there all you have to do is choose which pages correspond with the Mingle pages from the provided dropdown lists.
That’s it. A very simple installation and configuration. The author of this plugin (Blair Williams) stated that he will be adding new features, so keep an eye out for updates.
Here are two videos regarding traffic generation via Blogtv.com created by Justin Verrengia and D Sterlin. In these videos they discuss effective keyword research, article marketing tips and building back links to generate traffic. They give some basic, yet quality information on how to dominate organic search results. Although some of you may already know this information there are still some interesting tips which you might not yet know.
Resources Discussed in the Videos:
Roboform.com – Password manager securely stores online and offline passwords
Keyword Research:
Seo Book – Free keyword research tool
Generate Backlinks:
Socialposter.com – Submit to 160 social and bookmark sites at once
Article Submission:
Image by TheGermz
Since I’m going to be the owner of a brand new iphone 3gs tomorrow, I decided to open up a Flickr account and upload some pics I took a month ago on a trip with my really old Kodak EasyShare CX7300 which my mom bought for about $100 bucks back in 2001. And I’m not trying to toot my own horn here, but I took some damn good pics. Take a look. You can see my favorite pic above, and my other pics below.
Let me know what you think in the comments section, and you can find my Flickr account here.
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