Many internet users worldwide use different kinds of email services and social networking sites. And accessing multiple email addresses from different email services is just painful because you need to login once and keep on logging off to check your multiple mail accounts if you are using a single service like gmail. I use gmail frequently and I do have 4 email addresses which are active and I receive 10s of useful mails everyday. And checking them one by one is surely a headache.
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Multiple Email Twitter and Facebook Accounts Under one Threadsy Account
Google Search Engine Results Page gets a Makeover with New Designs and Win MacBook Air in Contest
Tired of watching the same results page from Google all the time. Do you want to change the layout and colors of the results page so that your search engine results would make you more interested and enthusiastic to work on the results? Or Are you planning to make your brand visible to your employers by converting the Google search engine results page to reflect your company logo and motto? Then RedesignGoogle is just for you.
A basic search engine results page of Google is quite boring, if I have to agree. The conventional wisdom bestowed upon us with a lots of white space does make look like The Bible.
Routine Old Look
Looks quite old, right? Google has changed most of the front page with new features added and so many makeovers, but the results page had always remained the same with results on the left and ads on the right. Now, change this look with simple Firefox add-ons.
5 Yahoo Meme Invitations Giveaway
Bloggers and Webmasters are using Twitter in a frenzy manner. Even I do. And you can follow me on Twitter at TeamNirvana. Most of you might be aware of Yahoo launching Yahoo Meme to cater to the masses who do not have the time to blog but wish to let the world know what they are reading or what their ideas are in 100 words. Team Nirvana is now on Yahoo Meme and I am rolling out 5 invitations to my fellow bloggers and readers alike who would take part in a simple contest.
Yahoo Meme-Save keystrokes
Rules are:
- Comment on this blog.
- Follow TeamNirvana on Twitter.
- Tweet this message across(and provide your twitter ids, so I can follow you back).
Starting 18th Sep, 2009, this contest ends on 25th Sep, 2009 and the 5 lucky winners would be given an invite to join me on Yahoo Meme.
Share and Group News Articles Using Google Fast Flip
Google Labs has rolled out another application Fast Flip which provides news enthusiasts to discover and share news articles online. Fast Flip is an add on to Google News which provides a thumbnail and an excerpt of the news. Using Fast Flip is similar to using Google search engine as you can even search for required news articles from the archives.
The user can keep track of what friends are reading and even share the news articles with like minded people and even create own custom magazines. Custom magazines, in the sense that you can create groups related to World News, Politics and if you are interested in Technology, you can create a collection of online magazines which cater to the technology enthusiast audience.
How To Earn Money From Twitter Tweets?
If you have 1000s of Twitter followers and you tweet like crazy with so much of valid information that the followers actively participate in conversation with you, then this is a perfect chance to earn a dollar per tweet. So, what you get is. You tweet your favorite things for the followers to get to know and learn, and by educating them you get a dollar in return.
Izea is providing a feature named SponsoredTweets which pays you for tweeting their ads. And what’s more? If you are tech enthusiast, you will not be asked to tweet about baby napkins and food stuff that does not interest you or which causes an uprising in your followers. You can choose the apt niche that you blog or tweet on and you can even provide a set of keywords so that you will intimated with a Direct Message from Izea when you are to tweet about a product.
Well, this kind of a thing can be considered as breach of trust by most of the followers, so it would be better if you keep the voice of your tweets to a general tone so that your followers can get to know that you are in a lighter mood and do not mind placing an ad link in the tweets. And suggest a real use of the product you have advertised so that the followers can get to know that you have tweeted it because you wish them to actually use it and reap the benefits.
It’s easy to signup for SponsoredTweets and earn a dollar or two from your tweets too, then this is the perfect choice as Izea is quite famous for creating revolutionized advertising products.
Do share any products which lets the Twitters monetize their tweets.
Gmail Gets Ads in between Mails
Jerome, while confirming a train ticket came across a Google ad placed just above that email. This is quite new as this had not been seen elsewhere and people are not well acquainted with.
Here is what it looked like:
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Here is the direct comment made by Jerome explaining the position of the ad:
This promotion for a flight France-Iceland appeared just above an email confirming my booking of a France-UK train ticket (Eurostar). Contrary to the classic side ads, I did take a look at this discreet and smart ad.
I guess I won’t skip those new ads any time soon, since they’re directly inserted in my thread. I hope Gmail will never try to include banners here!
I am expecting a response from Google team who have been asked about this.
Have you seen these kind of ads?
Wikipedia like DotSpots-Mark The Text Anywhere and Add Your Comment
DotSpots, a new semantic matching application from the company CrunchBase is up and effective now, after being demoed for the first time, with new signups being accepted on request. DotSpots provides its users to mark the text anywhere on the web and write a comment for that particular text. So, later on if anyone else comes on to the same page, and if they are registered with DotSpots, they can view your comment and even add their own comment along with giving thumbs up or thumbs down for the comment you have posted.
What does DotSpots do?
DotSpots is a service which gives the power to the users by identifying and indexing semantically similar content across millions of news sites and blogs.
How is this possible?
The users, both bloggers and individuals alike, can individually or collectively mark a piece of text(one or a few paragraphs) on their favorite sites and they can add comments, videos and photos. Then these comments and further additions are accessible by anyone with DotSpots account, with a Firefox add on to view and rank the comments added by the bloggers and individuals there by increasing the authenticity and adding up of more resources to that particular kind of news.
Err, What’s in it for Us? How does this help in benefiting ME?
The readers with DotSpots account are benefited in a view that, if you are going through a news sites, like BBC or CNN and f there are any comments on a particular news, these comments act as an add-on to that particular news. Bloggers and individuals pose their own views making the page, not a NEWS site centric view but a personal point of progression.
TechCrunch is giving a few invitations for people to test and provide feedback in order to improve this feature which will hit the streets for public. So, after a few months, we can expect individual’s comments not in the comments section, but on the main content just like this.
When Did You Join Twitter
Are you a Twitter user? Do you breathe and sleep Twitter? Do you not take rest until you tweet that you are going to take rest? Do you want to know each and everything that’s related to Twitter and it’s power users?
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Thesis v1.6 Beta Theme For Developers Only-Color Your Theme
Wordpress bloggers vouch for the features provided by Thesis theme. Thesis had released v1.5 a few months back and after that Thesis v1.5.1 followed which provided Developers and bloggers alike with umpteen features which 1.5 had lacked.
DIYThemes has now launched an upgraded version of Thesis named Thesis 1.6 for Developers only now. Thesis is powerful when attached with OpenHook plugin meant to tweak the hooks and make the theme into a powerful CMS tool. Now, moving ahead, without using the OpenHook plugin and also without editing the source file and FTPing and checking for details, now Thesis v1.6 has included an internal editor to manage and manipulate the custom.css file.
This is only one feature which I have mentioned, while there are really a ton of options which are still in testing mode. So, Thesis users, wait for a few more days and you would be prompted to download an update for the ever loving Thesis v1.6 theme from DIY.
Some features which I loved the most and wish to check are:
- Controlling font colors and background color and nav menu from design and color options itself.
- Automatic nav menu drop down
- Built in file editor for custom.css
- /rotator folder moved into /custom folder to exemplify the feature.
and a few more….
Share how you would like to download and test the features of Thesis 1.6.
If you have not yet purchased Thesis v1.5.1 theme, then this is the right time and place to choose from to avail the unique Thesis v1.5.1 Coupon Code.
WordPress Acquires After The Deadline Contextual Spelling and Grammar Checking Plugin
Automattic recently bought a company called After the Deadline(Strange name for a company!) which provides a service with the same name. This service can be used on WordPress.com and it helps in contextual spelling and grammar checker. As blogosphere is cramming up with newbie bloggers who aren’t native English speakers makes reading their blogs a little bit of trouble. As it’s a golden rule not to make these 5 grammatical errors, it’s also a general rule of the thumb to use misused words which spoil the real meaning of what the blogger is trying to say. In order to increase the readability of a blog, it has to follow certain principles not to have spelling mistakes and grammatical errors which make the content hard to read and understand.
After The Deadline is a free plugin for WordPress.com and WordPress.org users. While Self hosted blog users must provide their API Key in order to use the plugin in their editor.
Lets have a look at this plugin in action at Matt Mullenweg’s blog post.
You need to get an API key to activate this plugin. For this, you need to register at After The Deadline website which you go from the plugin’s page in your WordPress self hosted blog admin dashboard. While WordPress.com API Key doesn’t work for this. I do not understand why Automattic has not enabled WordPress.com API Key to be working with After The Deadline plugin.
You can download and install this plugin on your own or use the ‘Add New’ feature in your Plugin section in the blog’s dashboard.
