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3 unique social bookmarking plugins for WordPress
This is the beauty of WordPress, which is missing in most other blogging platforms – you keep stumbling upon new plugins or themes for your blog, almost everyday. I don’t need to explain the need for a social bookmarking plugin, given the craze for Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, and so on. Having said that, there [...]
Feedly for Firefox and Google Chrome lovers
There are quite a few applications that enable you to have your own social start page. Applications like iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc., are the most common ones you would’ve come across. If you are using Firefox or Google Chrome, you must try Feedly – a simple and efficient browser extension. Feedly creates a lovely magazine-like [...]
The new and improved Google Reader – Go social!
Well, I was exploring the settings tab today on my Google Reader and found something different. I just noticed this new service that enables you to broadcast the posts to social media services like twitter, Digg, Reddit, etc. I enabled those services that I use and went back to the main page to see the [...]
Going cyber at a young age – Where’s the world heading to?
Today, I was shocked to see a 9-year old on twitter. Well, you might say that this is normal, or that you’ve come across a 5-year old on twitter. When I think about a child, aged between 5 and 12 going online, I picture the following: A cute looking kid, staring at the computer screen [...]
Google Friend Connect – Socialize your site with four interesting gadgets!
When Yahoo acquired MyBlogLog last year, I was wondering if Google would acquire a similar company to add some cool Web 2.0-social networking gadgets to its portfolio. Finally, Google has come up with its newest socializing service called Google Friend Connect, that may enable a website to provide ‘social features’, and to increase its traffic (theoretically or practically!) by attracting more visitors.
The set up is fairly simple, and as a first step, we just need to sign-in using your Google ID, and click on ‘set up a new site’. The next step requires you to upload two html files to the root folder of your website, and obviously you have to use an FTP client like FileZilla or CuteFTP.
Once uploaded, the subsequent steps verify and take you to the ‘Member Gadgets’ page where you specify the dimensions, generate code and add the same to your website’s sidebar, or wherever you want that to be displayed.
Once done, the widget looks like this..
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