On The Mark

Watch out MySpace you are about ready to be replaced.

With all the problems that plague the giant online meeting place, a shift to person-centric social networking is primed to take some share of users from MySpace and Facebook.  After all why would you want to rent space when you can own your own home.

WordPress and its upcoming sister product bbPress are offering a multitude of options for users who would are making the switch from social networking to blogging.  Why not start your WordPress site today?

Reference:

http://gigaom.com/2007/12/11/the-next-social-network-wordpress/

One of the great advantages of the WordPress blogging system is the ability to add plugins and widgets. This article offers 3 suggestions to help with Google Adsense, add Gravatars, and highlight author comments. All three are great ways to improve your audiences experience.

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Introduction 

One of the greatest things about the Internet is the ability to “borrow” many of the cool things that are out there for your own site.  You don’t need to be a web design guru, just be able to find articles like this one.  Flickr has become an extremely popular free photo service and offers many services to its users including the ability to play a flash slide show of your photo sets (albums), tagged pictures.

Why Would I Want To Embed The Slideshow?

Simply put it saves you bandwidth , storage space, and you don’t have to have anything special on your site.  If you host your site via a provider and have bandwidth limits, this is a must use technique.

How do I embed a Flickr Slideshow?

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