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Commercials for snow man… you have to see it!!!

For first, the thanks go to Michael Rockwell, for inviting me into Joost Beta testing program!
Quoted from his invitation email:
“As you may know, we’re working on a project that we think will completely
revolutionise television. Combining the best features of TV with the powerful
social features of the internet, Joost will give TV viewers, advertisers and
content owners more choice, control and creativity than ever before.

We’d like your help in realising this vision. Today, we’re inviting you to take
part in Joost’s beta testing phase and help us put the finishing touches to
Joost. This is still a private, invitation-only beta and the software is still
being rigorously tested – we would greatly value your opinions, and we hope
you’ll participate actively by giving us your feedback.”
(Cheer time)Yeee, finally i got my own joost beta testing account and saw the first full movie! Hmm… what to say about it? It’s an awesome tv online, using a great player for that.
Here’s a screenshot, when i was looking in the Channel Catalog to pick a video:

I’ll come in the next days with more details about it. For now i can tell you that the joost beta version ROCKS!.
It’s a lot like TV but on a computer, thousands of channels…,also it come with customizable sidebars, that include clock, live chat, even RSS Feeds!
Ok, what’s bad? You can’t use it if you don’t have a minimal bandwidth of 512kb/s… the streaming video will eat your all traffic.
Another tip: When you don’t use it, close it from the bottom right area, or else it will continue using communication and using your traffic “space”:)
If you’re using it, share your opinion or links.
Perhaps i will open Joost Contests for giving sharing invitations that i will get from Joost.. who know? You tell me:)

How to really optimize your website for search engine like google , yahoo or msn.

Found that article when i was crawling the internet for such things, and i think that one is a gem for new wordpress people!

WordPress is one of the most seo friendly publishing systems today, but to get the best results you still need to tinker with it a little bit!

So let’s see what steps you need to take to modify WordPress so it will turn into a true seo CMS:

1. Permalinks structure: the default structure is no good at all – although search engines have no problem in indexing pages that have urls with variables, it’s very clear that they prefer clean urls.

The best results I have seen are when permalinks structure is set to “%postname%”, and only that. This is something to keep in mind for any site you build, WordPress or any other CMS.

2. Related posts plugin ( tinyurl.com/262ao4 ): this is good for both your visitors and the search engines. It automatically finds related posts and displays them in a list – very useful when visitors arrive on a page looking for something and they get more info on the same subject.

3. Metatags plugin ( tinyurl.com/2fxota ): you simply can’t let the search engines handle the text your visitors see in the search engine result pages. You can influence your click-through rate very much just by handling this one aspect of your copy.

As for the search engine optimization aspect – the description metatag can move you up a spot or two when you are in the first 5 with small to medium competition. And it only takes a minute!

4. Sitemap Generator Plugin ( tinyurl.com/2zy4nx ): for a small site this wouldn’t be a problem, but when your page count goes over 50 indexing and maintaining a sitemap the old fashioned way just isn’t viable.

This plugin is actually more valuable because it creates both an XML sitemap (like those used by Google) and a normal, HTML sitemap for your visitors.

Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, permalink support, what order to list items in and many other options.

5. List of ping sites ( tinyurl.com/2ljwrb ): put this great list in the Options -> Writing -> Update Services box and every time you write a new post 56 sites will link to you. This is a great way to ensure a quick indexing of every post on your site and, given enough time, get quite a few backlinks with the text anchor you choose.

Some optimizers say that blog and ping doesn’t work anymore, but I do this everyday – it takes next to no time and the benefits are visible.

6. Technorati ( technorati.com ) is another easy way to make your WordPress blog known, especially to other bloggers. Still, its biggest benefit is categorizing and indexing your content.

Create an account, claim your blog and then fill in the details in the blog settings page: write up a good description and then in the “tags” section fill in the keywords that represent your blog. Try to fill all the boxes but don’t spam. If you grabbed the list from no. 5 you’ll have all your posts listed in Technorati, and you’re going to see the benefits really soon.

Apply these tips and soon you’ll be on your way to more traffic and better ranking!

Thanks went to Florin Costache for that article.

Hello friends I did some search on social networking and tagging scripts.

I know everyone is looking for this nowadays.

Here is the list of all the opensource scripts that are available.
SourceForge’s one of the best when you’re looking for such things….

http://www.barnraiser.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/akarru/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/isticker/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/melt/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mycomunicy/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennetwork/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscommunity/ *

http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoss/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sociable/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/osstag/ *

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpne/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pligg/

I hope you will like it. Enjoy.
And, if you have some more, please add it:)

Updated: Found a related link right here: Social Networking scripts