Tips & Tricks To Get Online Visibility
Ops, it’s not that WordPress creating a TV show, it just that WordPress now has branched out to the new video portal called WordPress.tv.
It’s basically covers all tutorials and tips made for WordPress.com and WordPress.org plus videos from Wordcamp and Matt’s interview session.
WordPress.tv still open for any ideas for contents.
To mark 2009, I decide to give blogjer a fresh new look by switching to 2 column theme. I’m not actually thinking of doing that, but once stumbled upon this theme while googling something, I fall in love with this theme on the first sight.. lol!!
Unlike Knizam.com who has very flexible blog structure (able switch to any theme anytime 
), I try refrain myself from switching theme too often because of numbers of features that I have to hard coded into the new theme every time I decide to change.
Anyhow I think I’ll settle down with this theme longer (like the first theme) since I pretty satisfied with the final look and its feature rich. Btw, this theme coded by Agus MU, an Indonesian. Your theme rock!!
Beside the theme, I have compiled all images & screen shot that I have taken so far on my notebook. Then I create a new paint.net file, copy and paste all of them into that file , make it black & white and finally ‘hung’ it as a Blogjer’s new header. All this images are part of my past post, or post that I decide not to publish. Nice or not??
Hopefully I’m not in any way interpreted as misusing their logo and asked to take it down.. Or accused of infringement or breaking trade mark issue. Yeah seriously.. who know. I spent almost hour doing it. An this only for fun.
So, how about yours??
If you want to add Facebook Connect in the your blog not in a simple way, try
Dented Reality’s instruction. You’ll learn how to use Facebook application and at the same time adding Facebook Connect feature to your blog. Warning, it is little bit tricky.
Want something simple?? Try plugin from sociable. I’ve tried it briefly before and I love the option to send the comment to the Facebook profile. Beside that, the plugin came with the widget to show the Facebook’s user who just visited your blog, and connect with it.
Stumble this video from Mashable which shows how to add Facebook Connecto the blog, in which DentedReality show the steps by steps on their blog.
Notes : Submarine internet cable cut seems like causing the call to Facebook Connect slow and slightly impacting your site loading.
A day after requesting to have the beta access to Yahoo Mail’s open application, my wish was granted today. These application are only accessible via beta URL, but you won’t be able to see it unless you have been granted access prior that.
The first app that I open definitely WordPress. As my early guess, it wasn’t something that new. It allow you to post a new article to wordpress.com or your own hosted wordpress blog(require XMLRPC setup) as well as reading WordPress.com blogs.
Next to it is Flickr. It offer option whether you want Yahoo Mail accessing your Flickr account or not. By allowing Yahoo Mail talking to Flickr (yeah they share the same Yahoo ID), you’ll be able to open and share your photostream, your friends photos or favourite photos to others via email. Not to worry, if you don’t have Flickr account, since you can still viewing and sharing public photos.
I did open other applications but not go through it very much, as I’m not really into is as often as WordPress & Flickr.
Third party applications
Will Yahoo bring Facebook, Myspace or even Twitter in? Probably..
My cent is, fully functional application is not required here. Personally ,if I want to browse Facebook, I prefer to open it on new browser.
But just like Flickr & WordPress, put the most frequently used functions such as ‘tweeting’ for Twitter or posting status update to Facebook is sufficient. Others have done it (even WordPress has such plugins), so to company like this size shouldn’t have no problem implement it if they wish (particularly twitter).
Yahoo own services
Beside these third party applications, Yahoo should consider bring in its own application such as Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo Answer inside. Flickr is a good starter though.
Don’t forget the root..
But the ultimate goal of Yahoo Mail is to provide excellent experience when doing email related task, which I feel not really up to the level compared to previous Yahoo Mail. In my observation, the emails are taking longer time to load (although sometime it is erroring) with and without any applications opened.
This is quite irritating, when thinking of all these hypes about the new features, but the ‘foundation’ of Yahoo Email itself has started to shows its weeknesses.
Nevertheless, this is still in beta, and we’ll see how it perfoms once its open to every Yahoo users.
