Want to enhance your blogging experience by integrating Twitter feeds or Twitter tweets with your WordPress blog? Just check the following WordPress plugins. I am sure that you will find a suitable one for your requirements.

• MyTwitter : MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitter status updates (tweets) on their Wordpress site and update their status through the Options page. Includes customization options including number of recent twitters to display, formatting options, and stylesheets. It can be called as a function or used as a widget.
• Twitter Widget Pro : A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username and link parsing. Feeds can be for a single user, or can include all their friends’ tweets as well (like their Twitter home page does). It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened.
• Twitter for Wordpress : A simple plugin that displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog. Twitter for WordPress has several configurable options. If you use WordPress widgets, just drag the widget into your sidebar and configure. And if you are not using widgets, just add a simple code to your theme.
• Twitter This : This plugin adds a simple “Twitter This” button to your blog posts, that allows your readers to share your blog post at Twitter. In order to share, the user must login to Twitter.
• SimpleTwitter : This plugin allows Wordpress blog owners to add Twitter messages to their templates. After installation, you need to call it by adding a piece of code to your blog theme. There’s no formatting. It returns the most recent Twitter post found for the configured Twitter user. The message will be cached for the configured number of minutes. After this time, the plugin checks Twitter for new messages.
• Twitpress : Submits a user definable tweet to your twitter account notifying any twitter followers or friends that a new blog entry has been published on your blog (or an existing published entry has been edited). Supports inclusion of a permalink to your blog posting in the tweet.
• Twitter Tools : This plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It enables you to pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

Want to make money online from your websites or blogs, without sacrificing your precious advertising real-estate? Go with Kontera’s ContentLink in-text website advertising solution. I am sure that you will make some good amount of money from you existing websites or blogs. To know more about Kontera, read on.

The ContentLinks are contextually relevant ads and information units dynamically linked to keywords on a publisher’s web page. These links appears as double underlined links and upon mouse-over these links opens a small bubble like box that displays and links to ads from Kontera’s advertisers. The ContentLink ads are displayed on cost-per-click (CPC) basis. This means that advertisers pay only when your visitors clicks on their ads. You will receive a portion of the amount paid for each click on your website.This is all about Kontera’s ContentLink ads, in simple words.

Kontera’s Online Contextual Advertising Program is based on sophisticated technology which enables real- time analysis of both static and dynamic content. Even it can handle pages that search engines cannot crawl, such as password-protected sites, form-based content, and cookie authentication. Kontera’s special contextual ad technology serves the most relevant In-Text keyword advertising, and therefore generates higher CTR’s than most other contextual advertising solutions. So, with Kontera you will definitely see a boost in your online income.

The good thing is that Kontera’s ContentLink doesn’t require extra space on your website and you can use it along with Google AdSense or other advertising programs.

How to start with Kontera?

In order to qualify for ContentLink Website Advertising, you must have a content-rich, clean site that uses English as the primary language. And you must have more than 50 words per page on the majority of the site. If you meet the requirements, you can apply for a Publisher account with Kontera.

After approval of your account, you will need to add the ContentLink code to your websites. They have official plugins for WordPress and Drupal. For Blogger users they have a one-click code installation button. Well, you can use add the code manually to your website template. After implementation of the code, it will take 24 hours for the system to update and for ContentLink™ ads to appear on your site. They provides extensive reporting for your ads, that you can review from the Publisher Center.

With Kontera, you can add multiple sites to your publisher’s account. Just go to the “Help” section of Publisher Center and email them with a list of the domains you would like added to the network. They will review your sites and create up to 5 new sets of tags for you at a time.

Payments:

Their payment terms are Net 30, first week of the month, when balance exceeds US$100. This means they will send your revenue by check, PayPal or EFT, the first week of the month, 30 days after the month that they have earned this revenue, when your account balance reaches US$100. If your account balance is less than US$100 at the end of the month, earnings over US$5 is rolled forward to the following month, until the payment threshold is reached.

What I think about Kontera? If you get a good amount of traffic to your websites or blogs, then you must use Kontera’s ContentLink. There is no doubts that it will help you in improving your online income. But, if you are with PayPerPost or some other get paid to blog services, then there may be some problems in using Kontera. Some of these sites doesn’t allow in-text link advertising. So, decide it wisely as per your requirements and convenience.

Microblogr is a new social networking and micro blogging community, that was started by Cosmin Ghiu in September 2007. Microblogr allows you to instantly connect and collaborate with your friends while discovering new friends and maintaining your micro blog.

The front page of Microblogr shows a featured photo, members list and some latest posts. Every member has a profile page that shows some information about the member and his/her latest activity on Microblogr. The blog posts looks simple. And I like it, because it is a microblogging platform.

Microblogr will have a Text Message (SMS) feature that will allow you to instantly communicate with short messages to all friends in your network/profile. I am sure that it will make them different from majority of other similar services. Right now, it is in Alpha stage and accepting new members to test drive the system. Give it a try!

Love to follow interesting conversations on Twitter? Then, you must try Summize, the Twitter search engine! Summize is an interesting service, that indexes Twitter’s public timeline in real time, thread together associated tweets, and enables you to search through the conversation with their search tools. So, it is a good source of real time recommendations, opinions, and buzz.

Want to follow some buzz words on Twitter? Just use the basic search feature of Summize and type in your search terms. I am sure that you will be amazed with the result page. Take a look at the screenshot below.

They also have an advanced search feature, that you can use to make more accurate and useful searches. With Advanced Search, you can search only for pages with variations of a term, to and from various people and many other variations.

Some options or features in Advanced Twitter Search:

• Contain ALL the search terms you type in
• Contain at least one of the words you type in
• Does NOT contain specific words you type in
• Return results in a specific language
• Translate results to English
• Tweets to or from a specific user
• Links sent to or from a specific users
• Special query options {?, :), #}
• Any combination of the above operators

Social Bookmarking is an important factor for popularity of a blog. So, as a blogger you must give it proper importance. To help your readers in bookmarking and sharing your content, you can add some easy share buttons on your blog. For WordPress users, there are many social bookmarking plugins. Bookmarkify is one of those plugin that lets you put social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. It includes over 50 social bookmark sites including an “Email This” link. It also comes with links to your FeedBurner RSS feed and FeedBurner email subscription. Bookmarkify is very easy to customize and looks nice on web pages. Take a look at the screenshot below.

Some features of Bookmarkify Plugin:

• Supports over 50 social bookmark sites.
• Comes with “Email This” link.
• Includes a Link for saving to the Browser Favorites.
• Includes an HTML Copy option that makes creating links to your site easy for other publishers.
• Comes with links for subscribing to your direct or FeedBurner RSS Feed.
• Includes a link for subscribing to your blog via the FeedBurner Email service.
• Easy to customize by using standard CSS.
• Includes a “More” button, that shows all the sharing options.
• Can be used on any PHP page.

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Love to take pictures with your cell phone? Love to share those interesting pictures with your friends? Then, you should definitely check BeenUp2, a fun and easy photo and video sharing site. It is very easy to use and works much like a microblogging platform.

BeenUp2 lets you keep in touch with friends and loved ones no matter where they are in the world. With photos that post in seconds from your cell phone you can let others follow you throughout your day in real-time. You can upload your photo to BeenUp2.com via e-mail from your mobile phone or your computer. They also have a photo uploader, that you can use to upload your photos. Want to see your photos or your friends’ photos plotted on a Google Map? After uploading your photos, simply add locations to them with the help of their Photo Manager.

As a user of BeenUp2, you will be able to make new friends and take part in conversations. Making friends is a great way to see what others have been up to. From your account, you will be able to invite your friends to BeenUp2 by using your Gmail, Hotmail or MSN e-mail addresses. You can manage your friends through the Friend List. You can give your comments in the white box to the right of photos. Here, comments become chit-chat and chit-chat becomes conversation.

With BeenUp2, you can create and customize your own group. You can post what you’ve been listening to and reading by searching their extensive database. And even you can post photos and write daily journals during your vacations. So, BeenUp2 is an interesting service that you can use to maintain your personal photo diary and photo blog, besides going for social networking.

Popular Blog Advertising network Smorty has started a new Pay-Per-Click product advertising service. They named it as “Digxa Mini Store”. It is an innovative service that shows relevant advertising links on blog posts. When a visitor clicks on a product link, the blogger gets a commission. I think bloggers can use this service to maximize the income from their blogs.

Smorty’s unique “Digxa mini store” advertising links work based on your blog content. If our system finds a suitable keyword in your blog, then a Javascript link automatically appears. If an advertiser places their mouse over the link, a mini store with a related product showcase appears. Every time a visitor clicks on a product, you make money.

How this link advertising works? For example, if your blog post has a word such as “mobile phone”, then a link will be automatically placed on that text. If a visitors rolls their mouse over that text, it will open a mini store banner showcasing related phones. If the visitor clicks on the phone they will be taken to a shopping comparison site where they can buy that product. For the click through, you will receive a commission from Smorty. They will also allow you to use customizable banners on your blog.

How to use Digxa Mini Store on your blog?

• First sign up for an account with Smorty.
• Once approved, login to your blogger account.
• Go to the “Digxa Widgets” section and click on the ‘Get Widget Code” link.
• Customize the widget design to match with your blog and copy the widget code.
• Go to your blog’s control panel and paste that code on your template/theme.
• Start making money!

Smorty have a range of criteria to approve your blog for mini store advertising. Most of these are the same as for their paid blog advertising. So, if you are already a member of Smorty, you will be able to use it on your blog instantly. Your commission will depend on the products clicked on by your visitors and you can earn upto $0.60 per click. They will pay the commissions on a monthly basis via PayPal. Join Smorty today.