September 28th, 2007 — Humor
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Well it’s time for FUNNY FRIDAY. Here are my favorite videos from around the net. I have an upset Britney Spears fan and a very loyal campaign volunteer. Have a good weekend!!
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!
VOTE FOR RON PAUL!!
Ron Paul Girl - The funniest bloopers are right here
September 26th, 2007 — Social Bookmarking
Who is the winner of the social bookmarking battle? Read/WriteWeb has a great article with a lot of empirical evidence to show who is winning. Unfortunately, the evidence for StumbleUpon is no where to be found. Despite the lack of evidence for StumbleUpon, it is clear that Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon are the clear winners with Ma.gnolia being a distant third. Here is an interesting table showing the number of users for the most popular social bookmarking sites.
Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us is the largest, most active social bookmarking site. According to Read/WriteWeb Del.icio.us has over 3 million users. That is awesome.
Del.icio.us was the first to dominate this market and will continue to do so for years. Who here uses Del.icio.us? I do. Here is where you can find my social bookmarks.
StumbleUpon
While Read/WriteWeb does not include an estimate for the number of user for StumbleUpon, my gut tells me that it is closing in on Del.icio.us. However, I don’t think that users view it as a social bookmarking site. I believe that users give a thumbs up to a site to give it more traffic, not to bookmark it for later reading.
How I Use Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon
I personally use StumbleUpon as a social bookmarking site because I find it super easy to save it. It is so easy to just click on the thumbs up button to save a site. I find it quicker than tagging something with Del.icio.us. However, if I think that I will want to find the article or site three months from now and not tomorrow, I always use Del.icio.us. The tagging feature makes it much easier to find something later.
Where will Social Bookmarking Go From Here?
To be honest with you, I don’t know. However, I know that people want easier ways to find friends with common interests, easier ways to show people cool sites, easier ways to create communities of people with common interests. If I has to predict, the social bookmarking sites will focus on these features.
September 25th, 2007 — WordPress Plugins
With the release of WordPress 2.3 yesterday bloggers are stampeding to upgrade their blogs. In fact, I upgraded Newest on the Net yesterday and boy was it easy. What made it so easy? The WordPress Automatic Update Plugin. In 6 easy steps my WordPress blog was upgraded from WordPress 2.2.2 to 2.3.
Like any other plugin, you have to download, extract and upload the plugin to your server. Once the plugin is activated, it walks you through a 6 step process. The WordPress Automatic Update Plugin does the following:
Once your plugins are reactivated, you are ready to blog on your new WordPress 2.3 blog.
September 24th, 2007 — Blogging, Newest On The Net
While Sketchcast is not being promoted as a blogging tool, I think that it could be very useful for us bloggers. Sketchcast allows you to quickly sketch a drawing and embed it into your posts. How many times have you wanted to draw a quick picture and post in on your blog. Well, now you can.
September 24th, 2007 — Blogging, Increase Traffic, Social Networking
I just found an awesome new tool called SocialMarker. Social Marker allows you to quickly submit your articles to over 30 social bookmarking and social news sites. I have tried others in the past like SocialPoster.com, but I am finding SocialMarker to be even better. SocialMarker greatly speeds up the submission process. I can now submit an article to all of these sites in about 10 minutes.
Why would you want to submit your posts to over 30 social bookmarking sites?
How does SocialMarker work?
Here is a list of all of the social bookmarking sites currently available through SocialMarker.
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