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Tweak Facebook n Twitter : Update Status from Firefox

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You can update your status of  facebook and twitter account simultaneously without goin to respective site. For this you need to install a firefox addon  FireStatus 1.8.2 Steps: 1. Install the Firestatus addon. 2. From the options of the addon set ur personal details like username and password. 3. Select the addon icon at right bottom corner of mizilla firefox. 4. Select the account where you want set the status message. 5. Set your status message. 6. Hit Enter or Press Send Done.   More such intresting tweaks and tricks to come. To get regular updates please subscribe to our FEEDS

Tweak Twitter: Automatically create tinyUrl for your blogs posts

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Here is an intresting and useful tweak for WORDPRESS blog owners. This tweak allows you to automatically create tiny urls for your blogs post. Because of the restriction on character numbers in Twitter, you have to use a URL shortener when tweeting URLs. So, to help your readers tweet about your posts, you should definitely provide short URLs for all of your posts. H ere’s how to automate that task: Open your functions.php file and paste the following code: function getTinyUrl($url { $tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url); return $tinyurl;} Once done, paste this in your single.php file, within the loop: <?php $turl = getTinyUrl(get_permalink($post->ID)); echo 'Tiny Url for this post: <a href="'.$turl.'">'.$turl.'</a>' ?> More such intresting Stuff to come. To get regular updates please subscribe to our FEEDS Source:smashingmagazine.com

FACTS ABOUT SOCIAL NETWORKING

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  It seems everyone is social networking. Or are they? When you’re in the world of marketing — reading about it, planning campaigns, researching people — it’s sometimes easy to overlook the basics. So we started our study by simply asking ‘do you know what online social networking is?’. And that’s where our first myth was debunked. It turns out social networking is not taking over the world. Across the 17 markets surveyed, 42% of people know what online social networking is, which leaves 58% in the dark… either saying ‘no’ or ‘don’t know’. The Dutch were most likely to know the term with 89% answering ‘yes’, followed by Japan at 71% and Americans with 70% answering in the affirmative. Still, that leaves three in every ten Americans (the home of social networking) outside the world of digital friends and relationships. Synovate’s Senior Vice President of the US-based Consumer Insights group, Bob Michaels, says, “While a majority of Americans have access to computers there are still ...