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WP to Twitter Plugin
Jan 25th
WP to Twitter | Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design.
I’ve just discovered the craziest, awesomest plugin for WordPress. This little fella allows your WP blog to automatically update your Twitter with the the blog title, a shortlink URL (cli.gs or bit.ly), and even an excerpt!
“Tweet This” and URL shortening API
Dec 19th
Alright, you’ve all seen those CRAZY “Tweet This” buttons on so many websites, (mainly wordpress). You may have also noticed that some just send you to twitter and you have to manually input the twitter message. Well, how about we just make a button that will automate all this for us?
I really do love it when I click on that button and twitter pops up with a pre-written message like “Check out this site : URL GOES HERE” or “Crazy CSS tutorial on backgrounds. Check it out: URL GOES HERE”, it makes it much easier for me to share my finds. Here’s a great demo.
Okay, I’m working on a new website and it has various posts on it that I want the readers to be able to automatically share on twitter. I also want to include a backlink so that their twitter followers can visit the actual article. Basically, here’s a tutorial on shortening URLs using API and for creating a twitter button.
Google Social Search
Oct 26th
Google Social Search is a new Google feature that seems to be another addition to Google’s long list of diverse services that include AdSense, Blogspot, etc
It’s finally here, or it will be pretty soon. The “Social Search” is basically an extension to google that searches through your friend’s list on variety of social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. Okay, now don’t start laughing. Why do I say that? Oh COME ON! FLICKR?! Flickr is owned by Yahoo inc. who is THE competitor to Google Inc. in every way possible. Yahoo teamed up with Microsoft to create bing. Yahoo has its own Ad system, and so does Google with Google Ads. More >
Comparing short-links
Oct 21st
Have you noticed how many link shortening services have become available? It’s crazy. Every major website even has their own. Myspace automatically converts any links posted on there to a “lnk.ms” format. There is nothing on the actual website, so you can’t use this service for your own purposes. There is tinyurl.com, bit.ly, and tons more. So let’s go over these and the features they grant us. More >
Twitter on WordPress
Oct 12th
This morning I went to the rent-a-coder website and found a guy who actually had a project open that asked for twitter integration on WordPress. Naturally, I bid but unfortunately did not win the bid (I’ve just registered, you see) but the guy paid $10 nevertheless. So here is a short tutorial that will save you $10 or about fifteen minutes on google. 
Let’s start with the easy stuff:
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