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How Power Twitter enhances your Twitter Web experience?

Do you love to update or access Twitter over the web?  Are you a Firefox moron?  Then, grab the Power Twitter add-on, as it wonderfully enhances your Web Twitter experience.
Install Power Twitter
Power Twitter is a Firefox add-on and it works with Firefox versions 1.5 – 3.5.  The current version as on 11 August 2009, is [...]

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BackType to Manage Comments across the web

You comment on a blog post.  You comment on a website.  Have you ever wondered how to manage all these comments from a Single Dashboard?  BackType provides you a solution.
How it works?
First signup for an account with BackType. Once done, you provide the details to claim comments from across the web.
By claiming – you setup [...]

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6 Types of Blog Posts That Sell like Hot Cakes

If you are into Professional Blogging and carefully watching your Blog Statistics for sometime, then it goes without saying that purely Personal posts do not go well with the readers.  So what kind of posts people love to read?  What to write that sell like hot cakes with your readers?  To know this, read on.
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Setup a Header Banner Image for your blog using Thesis Theme

Header of a blog is the prominent advertising spot and a banner image here would just make things better.  I will share a very simple tip to setup the header banner image using the powerful Thesis Theme.
I assume that you have setup the Thesis OpenHook plugin.  If not, go grab it here and Thesis is [...]

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Display Feedburner and Twitter Stats in your Thesis Theme

Got bored of the traditional Feedburner Feedcount image?  Stuck with the Twitter Plugins that claim to display the number of followers in your blog? Forget them all.  I will show you how to get the Feedburner and Twitter subscriber stats programmatically (using PHP) in your Thesis powered blog and display them at your convenience.  This [...]

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Post Updates to Social Networking Sites using your E-Mail (Thanks Posterous!)

Imagine! You are browsing the internet at workplace and suddenly come across an interesting piece of information, that you want to post to Facebook.  Alas, Facebook is blocked in your workplace! So what you do?  Posterous – is for your rescue.
If Posterous sounds extremely new to you – checkout their FAQ here http://posterous.com/faq.  It is [...]

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5 Truths about Professional Blogging

Ok, let’s get straight to the point of this post.  Have you ever thought about making your casual blog a professional one?  If yes, then you know that this is not straight forward. I am not going to get into the depths of professional blogging, in this post.  But I will share a few truths [...]

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Yahoo!’s New Home Page – A sneak (P)review

On 21st of this month, Yahoo! announced the roll out of a new home page through their corporate blog (Yodel Anecdotal).  In the times when social networking means more than just connecting with people, let us briefly look how Yahoo! leverages Web 2.0 and tries to provide some interesting stuff through their new home page.
What’s [...]

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5 Sites to follow if you are a Web Developer

If you are into web development and do a lot of funny stuff like me, then I would recommend to follow these 5 sites.  The mode of follow – Bookmarking, RSS, Email Feed – might differ from me, but the one thing I am sure of is the quality of information.
1. Smashing Magazine
Definitely tops the [...]

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