Gmail’s labels feature has got some changes. Now, labels are displayed on the left of Gmail inbox, just above your chat list. With this the right-side labels, an experimental Gmail Labs feature, retires. Other improvements include ability to drag and drop messages into labels or labels onto messages and label showing or hiding. The changes are expected to help Gmail users organize their emails more efficiently.

1. New location for labels:

Labels now appear in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of Gmail). Labels are now shown above your chat list, grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels. So, no new sections for labels.

2. Label hiding and showing:

Gmail will now automatically show the labels you use most and hide the rest. It will save you from having to look through labels that you rarely use. When you want to view your old label, just click the “more” link.

3. Drag and drop labels:

To organize you emails, now you can now drag messages into labels. This is the simplest way to label and archive your emails. You can also drag labels onto messages.

via: Gmail Blog

Real-time search is now more real on FriendFeed! Social feed aggregation service FriendFeed has launched a real-time search feature. Just, enter a search query and the new results will be displayed at the top of your screen in real-time. Moreover, advanced search options and saved searches on FriendFeed are also displayed in real time. No need to refresh your page, because it is real-time search.

Just enter a search query as you always have, and see new results instantly stream in at the top of your screen in real-time. No need to constantly click refresh. It’s an extremely useful (not to mention mesmerizing) way to immediately see what people are saying about a particular topic. You can search across just your friends or all of FriendFeed, including imported services like blogs and Twitter accounts.

What’s more? You can even embed a FriendFeed search on your blog or web page and the results will be updated in real time. FriendFeed is also working on some advanced features which will allow you to subscribe to saved searches, add them to your friend lists, and even get notifications based on search keywords.

Recently, PayPal launched “Do Stuff For Money”, an interesting service that allows friends to send each other offers via email, to do something in exchange of money. The idea is simple, send an offer, wait for acceptance or denial and pay the money. It is designed to be a fun way to get your friends, family members or colleagues to do things, for money. There is no restriction on the type of offer.

How to use  “Do Stuff For Money”? Simply type in your first name, the first name of the one you want to send an offer to; the dollar amount you want to offer for completing the task you propose; and the task you want the person to do for you. Once you’ve completed the form, click on the “Send Offer” button and the service will inform your friend via email or Facebook. Moreover offers are displayed online for public viewing!

What if you received an offer from your friend? In that case, you’ll have two options - either accept it or decline it. If you decline it, you don’t need to do anything else and the service will notify your friend. If you accept it, “Do Stuff For Money” will let the sender know and then it will be up to them to pay you for your work.

How to pay your friend? It is simple. Login to your PayPal account, go to Send Money tab and enter the details to pay your friend. There is no difference from a normal PayPal transaction. However, I noticed that “Do Stuff For Money” accepts only round figures (no cents) and $1000 is the limit.

So, with “Do Stuff For Money” PayPal wants to add the fun element to the way we send and receive money online. Use it to challenge someone or send some prank offers to have a little fun. Or simply use it to pay the money you owe to your friend! In other words, “Do Stuff For Money” is a cool way to send personalized offers to friends, family-members or colleagues to do something for a set fee. Try it today. At least send some prank offers!

Visit: https://www.paypal-dostuffformoney.com/

Want some extra pocket money? How about $5,000? Not bad, I think! Now you can easily earn $5,000 just by creating a short video. How? Infolinks, the in-text advertising company, is holding a Video contest with a $5,000 grand prize. All you need to do is create a short video expressing your crazy, creative and funny ideas for making money online. Moreover, besides the grand prize, there are two other cash prizes. So, chances are more!

So, this opportunity is really great. Put your ideas into a short video and you could take away $5000. Want a sample video? Take a look at the official video. It is funny, but to win the contest you need to be more creative.

Video Requirements

1. Create a movie clip (live or animation) up to 2 minutes in length, showing your creative and  funny ways of making money online.
2. Finish the movie with the attached slide: “Infolinks Challenge – Final Slide”.
3. Upload your video to YouTube at www.youtube.com.
4. To join, send an email to blog@infolinks.com during the Contest Period. Don’t forget to include your complete name, address (including zip code), telephone number, primary e-mail address and the URL of your video application posted at www.youtube.com.

Judging Criteria

All video applications will be judged based on:

1. Creativity
2. Originality
3. Entertainment Value
4. Performance Level
5. Humor

Prizes

There are total three prizes:

1. Grand prize: $5,000
2. First prize: $1,000
3. Second prize: $500

The Infolinks Video Contest starts on June 22, 2009 and ends on July 31, 2009. So, you have nearly one month in your hands. Start brainstorming today and come up with a unique idea. During the contest period selected videos will be posted on the Infolinks blog for all to view. So, stay tuned to their blog and all the best!

More Info: Infolinks.com

Want to improve your internal links? You need to interlink your existing pages with appropriate keywords or phrases. But, manually linking your existing posts is a boring and time consuming job. Want to automatically link certain keywords and phrases on your WordPress powered blog with your existing blog posts, pages, categories or tags? Try “SEO Smart Links”, a free WordPress plugin.

SEO Smart Links plugin can automatically link keywords and phrases present in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and even tags on your blog. By default, it looks for keyword phrases that match the titles of your posts and pages. But you can also set it to look for Categories and Tags for automatic linking.

SEO Smart links also allows you to set up your own keywords list and set of matching URLs. Don’t want to link certain words or phrases? You can easily define the list of keywords you don’t want to link. Moreover, it allows you to assign nofollow attribute and set links to open in new window.

Installation of SEO Smart Link plugin is very easy. Download it from the link below, extract the content and upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. Then activate the plugin from the Plugins page of your WordPress dashboard. Once the plugin is activated, use the SEO Smart Links options tab to change your options. The default options are enough for most users. But, it is recommended that you add some words or phrases to the ignore list. Try it today!

Need a different plugin for Search Engine Optimization? Try the SEO Post Link plugin, which will make your post link shorter and SEO friendly.

Plugin Page | Download Link

Earlier this week, Google announced the beta program of AdSense for Mobile Applications, which will allow mobile application developers to earn money from their application. It means, the next target of Google AdSense is the mobile applications market, which is growing day by day. So, mobile app developers get ready to earn some more money!

After a successful trial with a small group of partners, Google is now opening up the AdSense for Mobile Applications service to all developers of Android and iPhone applications. The timing is right! Smart phone users now spend more time on small mobile apps to do various tasks. Google AdSense for Mobile Applications will allow app developers to earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in their Android and iPhone applications. All they need to do is sign up for the beta program and implement AdSense directly in their applications.

Susan Wojcicki, Google Vice President of Product Management, wrote in a blog post:

“We’re excited to open up this beta to more developers, and look forward to offering new features for our mobile advertisers and publishers in upcoming releases.”

The implementation is easy and ads will be displayed automatically. As a mobile application developer, you can determine the appearance and positioning of ads in your app, and even you can filter out ads you don’t want to appear. The ads can be targeted by keyword, demographics, and location. For more information and to sign up for the beta program, visit http://www.google.com/ads/mobileapps/

Everyday lots of images are being posted on Twitter. To help you search and browser those images Twitcaps arrives! Twitcaps is a real-time image search engine for Twitter. This startup allows you to search, browse and share the latest images posted on Twitter via any of the popular Twitter image sharing services. From the Twitcaps interface, you can capture an image for later use, re-tweet the image on your own Twitter feed, or share the image on any other social linking services.

Twitcaps delivers real-time search experience by utilizing the Twitter Search API. It fetches Twitter results in 10 seconds interval. For the search functionality it supports any valid Twitter search operators. For example, twitter search, “happy hour”, #haiku, to:techcrunch, @mashable etc. Right now, Twitcaps supports the following image services - Twitpic, yFrog, Twitgoo, flickr, img.ly, tweetPhoto and MobyPicture.

Twitcaps have an unique feature called “Capture”, which allows you to create copy of an image posted on Twitter and re-tweet it under your own account. To use this feature, you need to click the “Capture this pic” button that appears in the upper left corner of the full-view of an image. The captured image is uploaded as a new image to Twitpic service and you can browse all of the images you have captured on Twitcaps by clicking the “My Captures” button on the main toolbar.

There is another feature called “MetaCap”, which allows you to capture all of the images you are currently viewing on Twitcaps. It is like a screenshot and will be saved to your account if you are logged in.

Twitcaps also offers RSS feed of the image stream. By default there are two RSS feeds for latest images and popular images. You can also access an RSS feed with any filters you have applied to your Twitter account by adding your Twitter username to the RSS url.

Twitcaps is a perfect tool for image lovers. As it is still in Beta, there may be some glitches (though I didn’t experienced any during testing). Want some more features? Don’t worry! Soon, some new features such as full-screen, passive slide-show mode, capture categories, capture slideshows will be added to this Twitter image search engine. One more thing! As it displays latest images in real-time, some NSFW images may appear. Beware!

Visit: http://twitcaps.com