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The wibiya web toolbar

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The wibiya web toolbar should be showing at the bottom of this blog. You can add information to it, delete what you don’t want and use it to see your stats. Of course you need to alter the settings to suit your blog or web site. I think it’s great because you can use it and your visitors can use it to easily add a post to Facebook, Twitter or Digg, for example.

It also makes your site look pretty cool and professional. it is a growing application with more and more people using it. Features are added frequently.

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How to embed your facebook and twitter icons into a blog

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I’ve added a Follow me widget to my wordpress blog. First I saved an image of an F and a T. I then used this code to put into a text widget.

<a href=”http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=781704128″><img src=”images/facebook.png” border=”0″></a>
<a href=”http://twitter.com/#!/ozwebhub”><img src=”images/twitter.png” width=”60″ height=”60″ border=”0″></a>

You can see that I have not used WP media to add the image but this URL instead  www.ozwebhub.com/images

You will obviously have to change the code to suit you.

You can try uploading the image to your WP but I found that more difficult to do. You may be able to upload to the images folder of your themes images, but I haven’t tried that.

Fell free to Save the images I have on the right for your blog.

Next I’m going to try to add a Like button for Facebook for under the posts. Some of the related posts below may assist you in this too.

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Modern word press themes

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You know, if you are prepared to pay a little money, word press layouts and themes are now so good they can be the platform for a web site. Content management systems like WP are so easy these days and global changes are easy too.

I’ve been searching for quite a while for a new template because I attempted to add my Twitter and Facebook logos so you could find me there. Well you seem to have to pay for these. There are really excellent themes out there but I recommend this one from Woo.

They come with the ability to change text and graphics, without having to go into the PHP pages to change them. That reminds me. There is a spot for Google analytics which I’ve forgotten to fill in yet.

These new and modern word press themes also come with SEO embedded and the ability to emded videos.

I haven’t finished this blog layout by any means but I thought I’d give you a little look. I got this one for free, but there is no support for it. So I’m having to work out how it works, because one has to add one’s own information in different places with this one. I cannot add menus to the top just yet, but I have added my flickr photos and altered the heading graphic which came with this theme.

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Many social networking sites on one page

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Popurls is a gateway for the latest web-buzz; a single page that provides up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet (Twitter, DIGG, YouTube, Flickr, Yahoo Buzz, Google Blogs/News, Spike, Wired, Hulu), etc.

Great site!

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Free image hosting sites

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You can use these sites to find appropriate photos for your blogs or Squidoo. You can also upload photos to them as a way of storing them off your computer or sharing them with friends.

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Squidoo

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I joined Squidoo in its early stages and didn’t really follow it up, but a friend of mine has written many lens (web pages) for squidoo and makes quite bit of money. There are many new features.

The idea is to write about a topic and you share the revenues from Amazon and Google clicks with Squidoo.  I don’t know about you, but my Google clicks are not producing much money at all any more. You can also use text linked ads provided by Squidoo.

I recently wrote about a trip I took to Castlemaine and a review of the DVD  ‘Lilies’ .

You need to write quite a few lens to get your ranking up. There is provision to share on Twitter and Facebook and Squidoo takes care of your Google ranking too.

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Just discovered Zemanta

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Where have I been? Zemanta is wonderful. It can be downloaded as a Firefox add on. It can work on any blogging platform. It suggests photos (from Flickr) for your blog, tags and related articles from other blogs, including Amazon Books with your own referral ID on them. I love it. See the reblog sign down on the right. That’s what it does also. That’s how I discovered it. I reblogged someone else’s article.

Also it allows you to easily put your link on Facebook, Twitter and Mashable or almost anywhere you want.

And you can apply links to the content of your blog, which are mostly definitions from wikipedia or the URL addresses. You don’t need to code them. They just happen.

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More on Twitter

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I have examined Twitter‘s search capabilities in an earlier post. I was initially wrong in what I said about its capabilities in this regard. But I still wonder how useful Twitter is. On the surface it looks like a mobile SMS service. You can only use a short sentence or two. You can include a web address, if you want to. When you twit a web page or blog, the URL is a tiny url, thereby disguising the nature of the URL. I’m not sure why this is.

The thing is, some people developed Twitter as a basic unit and left others to make other applications to go with it and it is those other applications that make it more useful. More and more of these come out on an almost weekly basis.

Let’s look at TwitScoop. Twitter concentrates on news in real time : weather conditions, tragedies, deaths, sport results, celebs, movies.  Twit Scoop concentrates on what trends are rising and falling. You can integrate it into TweetDeck. On the Tweet Deck toolbar, you can access Twit Scoop.

Now what are those #hashtag things you see on Twitter. They are for the very cool people who know all about Twitter. They delineate keywords. So I might add to my Twitter post #photography if that is what I am tweeting about. Others can also search that way. They can just put in search #photography. These hashtags can be somewhat annoying, I think and you can still search by subject in Search, but these tags are filling up by twitter users and you have to learn that language. No subject categorisation by a librarian here, but I see the need for one. I mean, what does #journchat mean. How is anyone to know to search for that.

So you have to search for the hashtag currently in use on Search, before using it or not as the case may be. You can just add your own if you want and maybe it will catch on. Might be quite an excerise for anyone with nothing much to do.

To use some of the other applications you need Adobe Air which is a free program and installs when you download Twitter.

Let’s look at Twhirl Twhirl is so you can switch back and fro between multiple twitter accounts. Why have more than one, I wonder. It works with some social networking sites and that’s useful.

Okay, TweetDeck. This one can get content from Facebook. My friends use Facebook mostly. I think MySpace is going out of fashion except for the young maybe. This one is like Twhirl and they are competing at the moment.

So now there is Spaz This one specialises in skins and CSS swapping. People create them and swap them.

Twitterific? You have to buy this and it for Mac users and iPod Touch and iPhone and iTunes. It gets information from social networking sites.

Digsby actually looks quite useful. It’s for Windows. It combines many social networking sites : IM, emails, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, AIM and Yahoo.

I might head off to Digsby I think. Do you like Twitter?

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What social networking sites will survive the financial crisis?

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I haven’t done a real study of this, but I watch as some networking sites in my demographic become more and more popular and others decline.

Firstly, there are those people who have jobs and are not that interested in making money from the internet. More and more of them appear to be joining Facebook. My age group isn’t going for Myspace. My friends are using it for advertising social events and it seems to work quite well. Then again there are still those real life friends of mine who would never join Facebook because they don’t want their information anywhere on the net. A natural fear, but one which doesn’t have to be frightening if one is very clear about what one writes down and shares in terms of their lives.

These sort of people would probably use Skype as well. Skype has improved a lot with video and webcams so that you can see your companion. Skype too is used by people who do actually find people in the world who they would like to become more familiar with in real life. There are at least two people I know who have created romances using this form of communication.

Blogging is really for those who hope to make money from the internet. Well, I don’t know about you, but my Google cheques are really drying up and I’ve heard the same is so for other bloggers and web site owners.

Twitter is really taking off and there are so many applications for Twitter. It combines well with Facebook.

There’s been at least one traffic generator I know of which has closed down – BlogRush. So there must be more.

Here’s a list of social networking sites from wikipedia

Do contribute with your thoughts about who will survive and who won’t and what is happening out there right now.

Social networking sites to which you should belong

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I’m a member of about 11 social networking sites, most of which work in the same way. They also help you get more traffic to your web site or blog if you are a member of them. You might meet some people too.

I’m going to send you to my profile of each of the sites. From there you will be able to jin up as well as see what I’ve done with them. Unabashed self-promotion. What else?

Bloglines is important because you can read other blogs there and put a widget on your blog. Make comments on blogs you read.

Twitter is a simple application mainly for phone contact.

Facebook is a bit different in that you can use many applications there to build up a detailed view of what you have been up to! I’m a bit sick of Facebook and don’t want any more apps!

Flickr is mainly for photos

Squidoo is a place where you can create a web site.

A swicki is a site where you can create as many lens as you like and place the tags on your web site. These lens are on any issue. You can then tag you own web site so it is the first one that the searcher will find for that topic. I get a lot of traffic from these.

Linkedin is more for the professional trying to find old professional colleagues.

Stumbleupon is where you submit sites or blog posts you like so that it is user moderated rather than spidered by a bot. I think we should all use this one a lot more unselfishly unless we want to rely on Google and Yahoo. You should not stumble your own posts

Now ning is my new baby. Here you can add many things: a blog, photos, videos. You can create a group and join groups.

Everyone knows MySpace, but I haven’t bothered developing that one.

Digg is where people submit newsy type stories and like Stumbleupon you should not Digg yourself. I find non-USA sites very difficult to find here. The Australian market is so small that our cyclones are not of interest to the rest of the world.

I haven’t joined the next 2

Workbench is more for the business person.

Mixx is one I don’t know much about. I find I get social networking burn out pretty quickly.

If you join all these and work at them, you should get more traffic to your blog and/or web site. Join me there!