Thumbnail for Excerpts is a plugin for WordPress that will enable you to show thumbnail images on your blog post excerpts without using custom fields. It means that you don’t have to manually add a custom field to show thumbnail images on your post excerpts. And if you provide only partial feed, then thumbnails will appear also on your RSS feed.

How this plugin works? First it tries to find an image associated with the post. When an image exists, it will search for the thumbnail automatically created by WordPress. In case, the image was not uploaded via WordPress, Thumbnail For Excerpts will use the scaled version of the original image.

Installation of Thumbnail for Excerpts is very easy. Just download it, extract and upload to your “wp-content/plugins” directory. Then activate it from your WordPress dashboard and you are ready to spice up your post excerpts with cool thumbnail images! By default it will show thumbnail on left side of a post excerpt, with 100 set as width. The good thing is that you can easily change and adjust the size and alignment of thumbnail by editing the PHP file. You can even customize the look of thumbnails with the help of some CSS editing.

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Want to try something new in this era of social networking? What about your own social networking service? Cool? If you want to create your own social network, then SocialGO might be the right choice for you. What is SocialGO? It is a new service that will enable you to create and run a full-fledged social networking website. That’s why they call themselves as the ‘Social Network Maker’.

It is very easy to create your personalized social network site with the help of SocialGO. It will take hardly 5 minutes to start and run a social network with the help of this Social Network Maker. All networks comes with a yournetwork.socialgo.com style sub-domain. But, you can also integrate your network with your own domain or sub-domain (for example: social.yourblog.com).

They offers a wide range of tools and services to give you complete flexibility over customization and management of your network. Let’s take a look at the important features of SocialGo:

• Custom member profiles: Every member of your social network will have their own personal profile pages, that can be easily customized. The profile page shows the list of their friends on your network, the content they have added, their recent activities and a number of other interesting stuffs.
• Messaging and Video Chat: Your members will be able to send both one-to-one messages and group or event bulletins. Members can also communicate with each other through audio and video messages.
• Sub Groups: Members can create sub-groups within your network. Groups can be invitation only or totally open. Members of a sub-group will get all the facilities of your social network.
• Events: You can plan and organize events on your network. Your members can join your events, organize their own community events and invite others to attend events.
• Photo Sharing: Members will be able to upload and post photos on their profiles. They can also create their own photo albums with those uploaded photos.
• Discussion forums: SocialGO allows it’s members to easily set up forums. Anyone can join, initiate and participate in forum discussions. Every group comes with their own private forum.
• News aggregator: You can add RSS feeds of any website or blog and show your members the latest posts or news, with the help of the news aggregator.
• Blogging: Every member can have their own personal blogs on your social network.

SocialGO offerd both free and premium services. Premium plan users will get some extra benefits compared to the free plan users. For example: no ads on your network, ability to run your own ads, more bandwidth and storage, use of custom website address, enhanced API access, live video and audio chat, extra security etc. So, if you want to make money from your social network, you must go for SocialGO Premium. Otherwise the free plan will serve most of your needs. To find out more about the features of SocialGO visit www.SocialGO.com.

I just came across a new microblogging platform called Rejaw. It looks like Twitter, but offers some interesting and unique features that will enable you to chat in real-time with your friends, family, and co-workers. Rejaw allows up to 1000 characters per message and links, images and videos can be easily embedded into the messages. It is a free service and anyone can join a conversation, even without a Rejaw account.

The sign up process is very simple and requires only your user name, email address and password. After activation of your account, it offers you to automatically find friends from your Facebook profile and Gmail contacts. As they used official Facebook and Google APIs, you can find and add your friends without giving out your passwords. You can skip it and use anytime. Once on your dashboard, you can start chatting!

There are two types of posts – Shouts and Whispers. Shouts are sent to all of your followers and appears on public timeline. But whispers are direct and private messages sent only to selective recipients. Rejaw allows its users to write up to 1000 characters per message. Every conversation on Rejaw has it’s own permalink and you can use it to invite other people to join your conversation. Shout and whispers without activity for 3 days are automatically closed and put into static archives. From your dashboard, you can see all your shouts, whispers, followers and people you are following.

The good thing about Rejaw is that you can easily embed links, images, videos and pictures into your posts. Just enter the URL of an image or a YouTube video and post it. The image or video will automatically appear on your timeline. This really makes Rejaw an interesting microblogging platform.

Rejaw has released a desktop application called Rejaw Radar, which will keep you up-to-date with the latest shouts, whispers and replies on Rejaw. Well, right now it is available for Mac only! For developers they offers full API. So, in future we can expect to see some cool third party apps and services for Rejaw.

Want to maximize your online income? Think about the ad solutions offered by Chitika. What is Chitika? Chitika is one of the leading online advertising companies with a network of thousands of blogs and websites. The eMiniMalls is their flagship product and it will enable you to supplement your existing ad revenue while providing a completely new revenue stream through interactive merchandising. The good news about Chitika eMiniMalls is that it can be run alongside Google Adsense.

Besides Chitika eMiniMalls, they also have a number of other ad solutions for publishers. It means that you will have more options for better utilization of your ad space. You can run their ads on multiple websites as long as all your websites meet their terms and conditions. Let’s take a quick look at all the ad solutions offered by Chitika.

Chitika eMiniMalls

Chitika eMiniMalls is Chitika’s flagship paid per click (PPC) product. With eMiniMalls, you can provide your users with relevant content and comparative shopping information without sending them outside of your site. Chitika eMiniMalls will perform best if your site contains information about products.

Chitika Premium

Chitika Premium is an interesting cost per click (CPC) ad solution that is said to be designed to become your highest performing ad unit (eCPM). These ads are behaviorally targeted and they will displayed only to your U.S. search engine traffic (including certain other traffic). So, if your website gets a lot of U.S. traffic, then Chitika Premium ads are just perfect for you. Chitika Premium ads are available in all standard IAB sizes and they are compatible with Google AdSense.

Multiple Product Unit (MPU)

This PPC ad unit is similar to Chitika eMiniMalls but displays ads for various products instead of just one. More products means more chances of genuine clicks by visitors and more income for publishers.

Chitika AdPro

A hosted ad management platform for publishers that will enable you to start, promote and manage your direct ad sales. After sign up, Chitika will create a Direct Ad Sales storefront for you. Then you can promote, monitor and approve your direct advertising campaigns. Chitika will take care of your approved advertisers’ campaign set-up and ad serving, and processing of payments.

Chitika Linx

This is Chitika’s text link ad solution. Chitika Linx will automatically identify important keywords on your web pages and will hyperlink those keywords to interactive CPC-based product listings. This is a non-intrusive form of advertising and your users will see the ads only when they mouse-over those links.

Chitika for Parked Domains

This solution is perfect for making money from your parked domains. It will convert your parked pages to sleek shopping store fronts featuring a variety of products, offers and promotions. You will earn revenue on PPC basis from these product listings.

Chitika’s Referral Program

The publisher referral program of Chitika is also a good way to earn some extra money. You will earn 10% of the total CPC revenue that your referrals earns for up to 12 months. You can also earn money by referring advertisers to Chitika. For each $100 spent by your advertiser referral, you will get $25 as commission.

What about Payments?

Chitika will pay you 60% of Chitika’s revenue. They makes payments to their publishers via PayPal and check. All payments are sent around the start of every month. You will receive your payments about 30 days after the end of the month in which your account’s total generated revenue exceeds $10 (for Paypal) or $50 (for checks).

In my view, Chitika is the best alternative or companion to Google Adsense. If you run a blog or website focused on poducts, then Chitika eMiniMalls may give better results than AdSense. Chitika Premium ads are also a good option if you get a good amount of US search traffic. Right now, I am getting really good results from their Premium ads on one of my blogs. So, I would highly recommend you to join Chitika today.

Digg has released a new toolbar for Firefox, which will let you to submit contents to Digg and keep track of Digg even if you are not on the Digg site itself. It also comes with a real-time notification feature, that informs you when new stories hit the front pages of Digg or when your friends Digg, submit, or comment on stories.

How this toolbar will help you? When you’re browsing the web, the toolbar will automatically check and let you know if a story has already been submitted to Digg. If that particular story is already on Digg, it will show how many Diggs and comments it got. And if the page you’re viewing isn’t already on Digg, the toolbar will display a submit button, which will help you quickly submit the story to Digg and share it with the community. So, this toolbar will save your time and improve your Digging experience!

What’s more? The toolbar will alert you when new stories become popular on Digg. The alert shows the story details in a small notification window at the bottom of your browser. This toolbar will also enable you to see what your friends are doing on Digg. You can easily customize the topics for notifications, placement of the notification window, time of display for a notification, and even how links should be opened. You can even hide the toolbar by clicking on the Digg guy in the navigation bar.

This new extension works with Firefox 3+. In future versions some more interesting features including Digging directly from the toolbar and notifications about your latest Recommendations will be added to it. Get Digg Toolbar today and never miss a popular story on Digg.

Want to start a mobile version of your blog? Wait! You don’t have to spend a dime to start a mobile site from your existing website or blog. Because MoFuse is there! What it MoFuse? MoFuse stands for Mobile Fusion and it is a mobile site publishing network that allows anyone to create a mobile website in just a few minutes. It was founded in August of 2007. Since November 1, 2007, it is open to public and allows content publishers to publish their blog or website content to the mobile web. That is too, free of cost!

Creating your mobile site is very simple and it takes hardly one minute. Just visit www.MoFuse.com, enter the URL of your blog or RSS feed and hit the mobilize button. Withing seconds it creates a mobile version of your blog with a live preview. Then you just need to enter your preferred mobile site URL (for example, earnblogger.mofuse.mobi), mobile site category, email address and a password to launch your mobile site. Take a look at the iPhone preview of my mobile site!

Once your site is launched, you can edit it’s look and feel from your MoFuse dashboard. They offers a wide range of tools and features to help you in customizing and publicizing your mobile site. You can launch and manage multiple mobile sites from your dashboard. You can customize the design/colors of your site with the help of AJAX color picker. Even you can add your own logo or custom header with the help of this tool. MoFuse offers a WYSIWYG page editor for customization of your mobile sites. You can also use a custom domain for your mobile site, to match with your original domain name (for example, mobile.yourblog.com).

Want to know about your traffic? Don’t worry? MoFuse offers nice stats about your visitors, top RSS items, top mobile devices etc. Recently they have introduced a mobile visitor Count Chicklet, which works much like the Feedburner chicklet and shows the average number of mobile visitors that your mobile site has.

For PHP supported sites, they offers an automatic mobile redirect code. Just paste it on your site and your visitors will be taken to the mobile site whenever they comes to your original site via a mobile device. You can also use their SMS widget to allow your users to enter in their mobile phone number and get an SMS message with the link to your MoFuse mobile site.

Now, with your mobile site, you can make some money! How? MoFuse have a revenue sharing program. You can use either AdMob or Google AdSense for displaying ads on your mobile site. MoFuse will split the revenue 50/50 with you. That’s a nice offer. Isn’t it? Use MoFuse today and let your visitors read your blog on the go!

StatPress is a plugin for WordPress blogs that offers real-time statistics about blog traffic. It collects information about your blog visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc. You can access both overview and detailed stats about your blog traffic from the ‘StatPress’ tab on your WordPress dashboard. The stats are presented with nice graphs and I really like it.

You can use StatPress to know about the location, IP address, system configuration and surfing behavior of your visitors. Moreover, you can use this plugin to know about the preferred pages, posts and categories on your blog. To display certain stats on your blog, you can use the StatPress Widget or StatPress_Print function.

The StatPress plugin requires WordPress Version 2.0.2 or higher and it supports English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Norwegian, Dutch, Brazilian, Turkish and Swedish language. Try it today.

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