With Facebook’s ever-changing layout, and the fact that other social sites are encroaching on its real-time update strangle-hold, it’s easy to forget that there are some pretty nifty tricks you can pull using your humble Facebook status.

We’ve pulled together 10 great how-to tips that will help you get the most out of your status update, from official features to apps, Easter eggs, jokes and more.

Perfect for newer Facebook users, or anyone who is looking for a refresher, read on and let us know the ones you like in the comments below.

1. HOW TO: Add a Dislike Option to Your Status Update

“Like” buttons are everywhere on Facebook, and they’re everywhere on the web. But what if you want to update your status or share something that your friends can “dislike?” We know, your friends can choose to “comment” on your post, but where’s the fun in that?

The clever Status Magic Facebook app can add a dislike button to any status updates posted via the app. And if you wanted to really mix it up you can actually customize the second emotion to anything, such as “love,” “hate,” “disagree” or even “LOLs.”

2. HOW TO: Hide Status Updates From Certain People

Using Facebook’s general privacy settings (find these by hitting “account” on the top right of a Facebook page) you can select whether everyone, just friends or friends of friends can see your status updates. However, there is a way to narrow those options down even further.

You can select specific friend lists to see your status (relevant for work, special interest groups, etc.) or even individual people by name, which is useful for anyone organizing a surprise party.

To take advantage of these options, click the padlock icon just below your “what’s on your mind” box on your wall and a drop down menu should appear. Selecting “customize” will bring up more options such as “make this visible to” and “hide from” with the option to make your selection a default.

3. HOW TO: Pre-Schedule Status Updates

While SocialOomph, Sendible and HootSuite offer the same kind of service, the simplest way to schedule Facebook status updates is by using the easy, free Later Bro service.

Just sign in with Facebook Connect, select your time zone, type in what it is you’d like to say, set the calendar and clock to when you’d like to say it, and presto!

4. HOW TO: Tag People in Your Status Updates

This was quite a big deal when it was announced this past September, but from the amount of searches on the topic “how can I make someone’s name go blue in a Facebook status?” it seems it’s not universally known.

To mention someone in a status update just type “@” (a la Twitter) in the status bar and start typing their name as it appears on Facebook. An auto-generated list will then come up with people in your social circle whose name starts with the letters you’ve typed. The feature also works with pages, brands, events and companies.

Hit the name you want, complete the update, click share and the name will become a hyperlink (you won’t see the @ symbol) and will appear in blue text.

5. HOW TO: Add Symbols to Your Facebook Status

Although there are plenty of emoticons that work with Facebook Chat, typing “:)” into Facebook’s status bar will not magically transform into a smiley yellow face. In fact, the only symbol you can create in a Facebook status update through the shortcut keys is a ♥, by typing “<3."

While this won’t bother many Facebook users, others more used to punctuating their missives can copy and paste web-happy, universal symbols into the box, as you can see in the screengrab above.

PC users can also access some symbols by hitting “alt” + various number combinations (on a numerical keypad). So, while smileys are yet to hit Facebook statuses, you can annoy or amuse your buddies with symbols right now.

6. HOW TO: Turn Your Status Updates Into a Word Cloud

There’s a really fun way to visualize anyone’s status updates (even an entire country’s) as a word cloud. The Status Analyzer 3D app will look at what it is you’ve been chatting about lately and generate a list, and then a pretty, colorful, animated cloud as pictured above.

You can share the results with others on the social networking site by posting it to your friends’ walls or by adding it to your profile.

7. HOW TO: Have Fun With Facebook’s Humorous Language Options

While you can always change your setting into more sensible alternative languages, the site offers a couple of fun linguistic Easter eggs.

You can chose to have Facebook display upside down English, or, for anyone feeling a little salty, in “pirate.” Pirate essentially turns your status into your “plank,” your attachments into “loot” and instead of “share” it offers the option to “blabber t’ yer mates.”

Sadly, anything you type in the status bar won’t be upside down, or pirate-y. But with the use of some external sites you can achieve the same effect.

TypeUpsideDown.com and UpsideDownText.com are just two examples of sites that can flip your text, while the Talk Like a Pirate Day site can help you with your pirate translations.

8. HOW TO: See Status Updates From Around the World

If you want to get a glimpse of the thoughts of Facebook users from around the world’s, head over to OpenBook.

Created by three San Fran web developers with a serious privacy message in mind, the site aggregates the status updates of everyone whose privacy levels are set to “everyone.”

You can narrow your searchable results down by gender and keywords to find out what people are saying about a certain topic. Or you can just browse the recent searches.

9. HOW TO: See Your Status Update Stats

Have you ever wondered how many times you have updated your status on Facebook? The Facebook app Status Statistics, can tell you this and more.

The app analyzes your updates and gives you a tidy list of how many you’ve written, the average word count and how many times a day you post. In addition, it generates a graph that shows you what time of day or what days of the week you normally update.

Old statuses are also searchable via the app, so you can find that witty retort you made back in November 2009 without having to scroll back through your history.

10. HOW TO: Play a Trick On Your Friends in Your Status Update

We have a funny one to end on — a way to play an amusing trick on your Facebook buddies.

This clever link “http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363″ looks like it could be a URL for anyone’s Facebook profile, actually takes anyone logged into Facebook to their own profile page.

If you try it out, be sure to remove the link preview that Facebook auto-ads. Have fun, and don’t be too mean…

eBay has made it fairly clear that mobile is the future for e-commerce. And the numbers only reinforce this strategy- mobile payments are poised to reach $200 billion by 2012, according to Juniper Research. So, of course, eBay is wants to make its crown jewel, PayPal, the leader in the mobile payments space. In fact, PayPal’s mobile transactions have grown as smartphone usage has increased, from $25 million in 2008 to $141 million in 2009. In 2010, PayPal expects more than half a billion dollars in mobile payment volume with more than 5 million members regularly using PayPal from their mobile devices. Today, PayPal is making it easier for merchants and consumers to pay for goods on their smartphones with the launch of Mobile Express Checkout.

Mobile Express Checkout is the mobile version of PayPal’s Express Checkout service, which is a one-stop payment option streamlines the checkout process for consumers. A buyer will not have to reenter shipping, billing, or payment information for a PayPal payment, expediting the checkout process. All they need to do is enter their PayPal account login. It’s similar in theory to Amazon’s one click ordering option.

Merchant Express Checkout has been optimized for smartphone screens and also features strong fraud detection, says PayPal. Mobile Express Checkout is initially being rolled out on the iPhone and Android 2.0 (and higher) devices by a few retailers, including Nike and Buy.com, over the next few weeks. The technology will eventually become available to all retailers in the next few months.

PayPal sees this new mobile technology has an opportunity to allow the company’s 85 million members to easily buy goods on their phones using PayPal’s technology versus inputing a credit card. The company is sure to be on to something with this strategy-inputing your credit card, shipping and billing info on a phone is an arduous and time consuming task.

Automating this process is surely the future of mobile payments and shopping. Of course, it’s safe to assume the credit card companies, like Mastercard and Visa, will also be heading down this road soon.

SEO-Evolution – In recent years, has done a lot of the SEO industry itself: the search engine evolves through numerous changes, modifications and improvements, after all, they wanted to race in the steady – no, in the fight – for the best, objective results, manipulation should defy everyone, seeking for its own search engine of them all. On the other hand, increasingly also increased the number of search engine optimizers to clear – and with it the rate of those who – only driven by idealism – not always really had no idea. no issue, since it can only partial knowledge or even falsehoods, such as poorly exposed but are the same, if there is little secure, official information only. Another phenomenon was at this time but also sometimes very bold stylization of one’s own self to the person to a differentiable brand.

With increased use of the associative cortex, the chances of innovation is significantly better than the mere copying.

The so within the digital flow channel "formed" Popstars "there were many (semi-knowledge) can now identify people," prominent "leaders of the industry. With so much ignorance on the one hand and production on the other, raises the question of what really constitutes a good search engine optimizer? Does the quality of a book by the cover image really evaluate it? Certainly not – even if it sometimes seems at first. No, the thing is more complicated.Looking at the whole thing a little exaggerated scientific, can be in the industry followings-types identified:

Mirror neuron type

The human brain does in many situations, the ability of the mirror neurons back. With the help of man is the one able to perceive the feelings of the opposite (sympathetic, empathic responding to), on the other hand others to copy actions, without even derive them or think about it sometimes can be enormously time-saving müssen.Das and even be life-even.Sometimes, the resulting herd but to mislead, and for no particularly satisfying, powerful overall lead. One thing is clear: Innovativion looks different, or is on such a path even excluded altogether.

Associative Cortex-type

The associative cortex of the human brain enables us to common context of two different situations to derive a. The information obtained can be adapted to situations and optimized for subsequent action be tabled for one. In this way gain invaluable experience in the context of a search engine optimization are extremely important. By the way: The brain of the monkey also has an associative cortex, its much smaller in scope but fails to. The primates share more on the benefits of mirror neurons. In "the wild" type is the one described in almost pure form are good. Nevertheless, one can see clear focus is one that also shows the same time, whether it is a good or bad SEO concerns.

Source: Poplinre (Flickr)

One thing is clear: With increased use of the associative cortex , the chances are much better at innovation than the mere copying. And that’s what it’s what is important: if I am doing the SEO only as what others have done already, I will never get better overall results.The constant experimentation, observation and the correct derivation is extremely important. Missteps belong to and are also important if one is in a position to learn from them and also to derive the right conclusions. Conversely, however, this should not mean that the account of the experiences of others would be superfluous. Often arise, however, on closer inspection, other conclusions, as described by the author. New information should therefore open, and in any case, but critical of. Here is also recommended to be not of the type of presentation also to be dazzled, even the testimony of the scene, celebrities and even the official spokesman for the search engines should always be tested on plausibility of content.

Ranking Factors: The hunt for the Holy Grail

Sometimes seems to me the hunt for a full list of all possible ranking factors similar to those of the highest on the number of megapixels in digital cameras. This aspect is not necessarily the technical eintscheidet on a high quality image, but the photographer. Course is a minimum technical quality required to, but ultimately can only experience for photographers provide the perfect end result. Each search engine optimizer should therefore about the SEO basics have. Everything else will be shaped by experience, which must be applied individually.

The maxim of the search engines

Actually, everything is very simple: search engines want to rate humanoid, because after all results are for people interesting, relevant websites are available with the. So you look the seeker on the fingers. Basically, Google does this for development of the PageRank algorithm, which on the evaluation of incoming links as recommendations involving social aspects, yes. the concept was refined and supplemented that is well known. The basic approach is, however, remained – and with it the maxim: Man.

Source: FindYourSearch (Flickr)

Although it was long time not very effective as people and not just for search engines to create websites, so Google & Co. are now more capable sites from a human perspective to consider because more and evaluate. At least it succeeds in parts quite well, and, increasingly, more and more. Search engines are increasingly in a position to user behaviorto be included in the ranking. For this reason, aspects of an optimal usability and more important. "SEO & Usability" or even further: the user experience) to increase growth (together. Optimal Usability provides not only for improving the conversion, but is also an important part of SEO.

Conclusion

A good search engine optimizers must now face the diverse challenges. In many forums can often read that modern SEOs, artistic interest and talent must be able editorial. Finally, you should be interesting text, but also can produce videos with a viral touch wildfire in (Keywords: vertical Search). Quite honestly, this is not the task of the Search Engine Optimizer. Rather, it must be in a position, to survey the whole large and the individual components together to bring. Above all, he should not monkeys to make themselves and the use of his mirror € use only. He should use his associative cortex and make use of this time also on the nose look with SEO.

The basic approach is, however, remained – and with it the maxim: Man.

SEO is developing so fast becoming a cross-discipline, that of the classic search engine optimization and optimization of the user experience is made. Where is the question of how such cross-examination will be titled again. Even now uses the term "SEO" is already far too short and can not even guess where this journey goes. A good SEO is thinking not only to isolated ranking factors, but aggiert from the perspective of search engines and their basic motivation. SEO is the only way today – and even more tomorrow …

Blogging has become a very popular method for sharing knowledge, discuss viewpoints, personalize your business and increase the opportunity for inbound links and traffic. Given the increasing popularity of blogging today, it has become imperative that you choose the perfect medium for posting your blogs. Blogger and WordPress are two leading blogging platforms that have gained in popularity over the years.

Blogger can be described as a popular free hosted blogging platform while WordPress is a popular self hosted blogging platform. However, recent times have seen a switch to more WordPress blogs than Blogger. In order to understand the reasons for this shift and whether it makes sense to switch or not to WordPress, it is important to understand the innate differences between the two and the advantages of one over the other.

• WordPress allows you to freely host your blog site onto your hosted website or anywhere else for that matter, which is not possible with a Blogger blog. WordPress hosted on your own server under your own domain will help much more with SEO than having a Blogger account at a separate Blogger URL which directs traffic to them and doesn’t keep them on your site.
• The amount of control you exercise over your blog site is limited in Blogger as you do not have the option of choosing your content etc but in a WordPress blog, you are given complete control of your blogging content, which makes the latter more compatible for those wanting to market their businesses.
• WordPress blogs provides you with more options for customization than Blogger blogs. While this may be intimidating to a novice, it is not very difficult to learn or master.
• Changing your layouts and templates using WordPress is very simple and can take place even if you are not aware of programming or coding. However, this is not the case with Blogger blogs, where you need to understand coding, if you want to make changes to your template.
• While both WordPress and Blogger offers the user a variety of plug-ins and widgets to use from and create a blog site, it is important to note that WordPress offers more variety and types in comparison to Blogger, whose options are pretty limited in the area. Moreover, the kind of widgets offered by WordPress are more sophisticated than the Blogger ones, like those that allow you to keep track of traffic to your website or even allow you to put up spam filters and the like to ensure good traffic to your website.
• It is interesting to note that with WordPress, you can create static pages and generate SEO friendly links with the click of a single button, which again is not possible with Blogger, although many may argue that Blogger is more recognized by Google, as it is owned by Google.
• Though both blogs are easily picked up by RSS feeds, a WordPress blog can actually help you monitor your tracking statistics, which makes it more attractive in the long run as the same is not possible with Blogger.

Flickr Tools

• Flump - simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account.
• Compfight – uses Flickr’s API to search the database of photos and then feeds back the results as live clickable thumbnails.
• Foldr Monitr – a free tool that runs in the background and watches a selected folder (and optionally subfolders) waiting for you to add photos to it. When photos appear in the folder, Foldr Monitr automatically uploads them to your Flickr account for you.
• Phlogre – is Photo Organizer for local photos and flickr photos. Meant to replace the official Flickr Uploadr.
• Girls of Flickr – Browse around for sexy photos on Flickr babes and Flickr girls
• Flishr – is a primer application to Download, Upload and Search photos from one central command console on your PC.
• PicMarkr – lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free.
• Flickr Hive Mind – is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: metadata tags; Flickr photography groups; Flickr users, contacts, and favorites; text annotation; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness.
• Merkitys�Meaning – application for Symbian S60 smart phones that automatically adding contextual information and allows one click publishing from your phone to your Flickr account.
• Flickr Cover Flow – A cover flow slideshow ala iTunes for your Flickr photos.
• nFlickrViewer – SimpleViewer with full Flickr thumbnail and full-image support
• Flickriver – it allows viewing Flickr photos as an infinite �river of photos�. Also has new ways to explore and view Flickr photographs.
• GratePic – a cross platform tool for posting, commenting and rating photos on flickr.
• Flickr photo owner finder – Helps find who took a particular Flickr photo that you have saved.
• FlickrSync – is a photo synchronization application for flickr users. Manage all your photos locally and FlickrSync will keep them updated in flickr.
• Statr for Flickr – collects data through api calls and allows you to track and plot page views statistics for your Flickr account.
• imageloopR – Get your favourite Flickr photos in your slideshow.
• Smark – fast ajax interface for tagging pictures on Flickr.
• rTagger – helps organize your Flickr photo collection by allowing you to modify tags offline.
• Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome – The application allows online/offline mode management of your photos. You can upload, search and download photos, through the easy to use interface.
• flickrSLiDR – allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog.
• Dojo/Flickr Image Gallery – an Ajax image gallery built on top of Dojo Ajax Toolkit.
• Original Size of Flickr Photo – Insert Flickr photo ID and retrieve original size URL of image.
• Invitr – allows you to specify one (or more) private pictures to be shown to as many/little people as you want.
• Flickr Anywhere – allows you to put flickr in your myspace account or on any webpage with just a quick search. It takes all your public flickr photos and displays them in a compact flash player.
• Flickr Notifier – a RSS notifier that displays images. The pictures pop up on your desktop in real time.
• AlphaLearnr – Flickr Mashup which helps children to learn English Alphabet through photos.
• Mosaica – is a customizable screensaver with a content generated by users of flickr.
• Flickr4Writer – is a simple plugin for Windows Live Writer that enables a user to browse a Flickr user repository and insert an image from Flickr into a Writer post. Application of this tool in Flickr4Outlook and Flickr4Word
• UploadrXL – is a program to upload one or more images to Flickr and add them immediately to your Sets of Groups.
• Pictobrowser – widget to display flickr photos on your blog.
• Flickr set manager – allows you to automatically create new sets on flickr based on various criteria such as interestingness, date posted and tags, or even from a random set of photographs.
• The Most Interesting Pictures By – displays the most interesting pictures of a flickr user.
• Gickr – create an animated Gif from your Flickr photos
• GMiF – embeds a Google Maps in Flickr photo page and displays where the photo was taken on the maps, if the photo is geotagged.
• Fireflix – a flickr uploader / manager extension for Firefox web browser.
• FlickrStorm – a better way to search Flickr. Search for photos in Flickr by Creative Commons license, compile them in a batch and save them.
• WorldInPictures – find pictures close to any specified location.
• FlickrFaves – utility for downloading high-resultion versions of your Flickr favorites to your hard drive.
• Flickr Color Selectr – Find Creative Commons licensed photographs from Flickr by their colors and rate them.
• Flickr Panel – plugin displays images direct from flickr user’s, groups, or tags or a combination of them.
• Localize Bookmarklet – bookmarklet that enables mapping, geocoding and geotagging directly in your Flickr photo page.
• Preloadr – Online image processing and phot optimization of Flickr photos
• Printr Killr – printing out instantly-designed card decks and calendars from Flickr
• Photo Desktop for Flickr - allows you to edit images before upload. Rotate, flip, tag, name, batch resize, and then batch upload your photos from one simple application.
• Flickstrs – All time greats are selected by factoring in the number of images users have in the flickr explore pages, number of people calling them contacts, and percentage of images that are on the explore pages.
• Flictionary – Type your stream of guesses, Flickr will listen and help you draw new photos.
• Flickr Finder – for Mac OS X Tiger. Easily naviagte your Flickr images.
• GlobeFeed Maps – The geotagged photos from flickr are integrated on Google Map.
• Flickr Flash Puzzle Zone – creates jigsaw puzzle to solve from your searched flickr images
• FlickrViewer – allows you to view a Flickr photo set in SimpleViewer, a popular flash photo viewing tool.
• FlickrFont – converts any text to images, fresh each time the page loads.
• Splashr – a tool for presenting Flickr photos..
• Flickr2Photocast – generates an iPhoto-compatible photocast feed from Flickr containing up to 500 images in their original format/resolution.
• Travelr – lets you display your Flickr photos geographically on a world map.
• FlickrFly – is a script that can be linked from the description or comment of a geotagged Flickr Photo to fly you that location in Google Earth.
• phpFlickr – a PHP client for the Flickr web service. It has functions that return the responses from Flickr’s API in a meaningful way for PHP developers.
• Bubblr – Create comic strips using photos from flickr.
• Sprinklr – allows users to easily and quickly add their photos to various groups.
• Favcol – the background of this page is flickr’s favourite colour
• h4ppierphotos – helps find photos that are not already in sets and/or filter by date and then add them to a new or existing set or tag them.
• Twaingle – a tool that allows you to search for images on flickr or yahoo and insert them directly into an application.
• Flickr Original Viewr – view originals of all flickr images
• Flickr Leech – loads all interestingness photos for a day on a single page. Sort by user id, photoset and group pools.
• ZoneTag – can automatically tag your photos with the location, based on the cell tower, in which they were taken.
• Flickr Mixr – uses RSS feeds provided by flickr and parses them to generate new images.
• Tiltomo – play with their Visual Search code using two sample databases from flickr.
• TagMan – a hangman game for Flickr tags.
• John’s Background Switcher – periodically changes the background image on your computer to a photo from flickr at intervals.
• FlickrLilli – Enables searching for Creative Commons content on Flickr.
• RSS2PDF for Flickr – create PDF archives based on any Flickr newsfeed. The photos must be made public.
• Flickr & Webimager – Screen capture image upload tool based on flickr API.
• We Map Flickr – mashes up Google maps with Flickr to display a map with pictures from around the world.
• Spahk – MobileMashup to View photographs from Flickr based on keywords (tags) or a random sampling of interesting photographs on Java-enabled phones with MIDP 2.0 support.
• Gtalkr – intergrates google talk, gmail, flickr and you tube together.
• Flickrball – is a six-degrees-of-separation game, using Flickr thumbnails and tags for clues.
• Fastr – a game where you are shown a group of pictures from Flickr and have to guess the tag before other people do.
• FlickrFling – displays the text of news feed with accompanying images from flickr.
• Flickr Logo Maker – enter text and it generates a flickr style logo image
• Loopy – a desktop screensaver application that loops and shows flickr pictures at random.
• Flickr Sets RSS – Created RSS streams for sets of a user on Flickr.
• Flapper – is a Flash 8 interface for Flickr.
• Flickeur – �retrieves random images from Flickr.com and creates a stream-of-consciousness type of video clip�.
• Findr – Find photos on flickr by browsing and refining related tags.
• Wickr – is a widget for browsing through photos on Flickr. You can browse by supplying tags or by giving a Flickr user’s username or email.
• Tickr - scrolls images on your desktop until flickr runs out of images to show you which match the tags you’ve specified.
• Tagnautica – is an experimental navigation tool built to explore the space of related Flickr tags.
• Clockr – see the current time with flickr photos.The Flickr image urls will be stored locally, refreshed every three days to save bandwidth and speed up the start-up time.
• Retrievr – lets you search for photos on flickr by drawing sketches of them.
• Slickr – Flickr screensaver shows images from a user, group, tags, etc. from Flickr.
  
• Gnickr – manage photos on your Flickr site as if they were local files on your Gnome desktop.
• Captioner – add comic captions for your flickr photos
• Flapi – an open source Flash image gallery that uses Flickr to manage the images.
• Daily Zeitgeist – displays recent photos from Flickr on your website. Built in Flash.
• Wikinews Flickr License Searcher – searches flickr for images licensed under a specific license. Meant to help users of Wikinews find free images for use on the site.
• Yahoo Widgets for Flickr – get flickr related widgets on your desktop after downloading the Yahoo! Widget Engine.
• QuickrFlickr – a quicker way to generate HTML code of Flickr pictures for use in Xanga, other blogs, or any HTML Page.
• CloudTagFlickr – This script pulls your tags from flickr, and arranges them in a number of ways according to the relative counts of the given tags.
• FlickrBuddy – See and download the most interesting pictures of your flickr contacts.
• Most Interesting Pictures – Enter Flickr username to see their most interesting pictures.
• FlickrWallpaper – is a simple desktop wallpaper changer that downloads photos based on tags from flickr.
• FlickrSavr – downloads images based on the criteria specified and creates a slideshow of images and titles.
• Flickrmap – Put a flash based world map on your own website or blog.
• Embedded Flickr Slideshows – All that�s needed is a bit of code to embed them within your website to give your readers something dynamic.
• Flickr hack: All Sizes for all pics – The public API gives directions for constructing the url of any photo based on information in the HTML of every photo page.
• Flickrfs Virtual Flickr Filesystem – Create a virtual userspace filesystem which allows easy uploading/downloading/searching of images through flickr.
• Projects on the construction of identity and flickr – a series of three projects investigating what constitutes the self. egoshotr, fixr and mixrrr
• WordPress Flickr Post Bar plugin – easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts.
• Phlickr – is an open source PHP5 based api kit used to access the Flickr API.
• Flickr AutoDownloadr – view Flickr photos in a fullscreen slideshow (Windows). Handy for showing off photos to a group of friends with a laptop and TV.
• Flickratr – vote from 1-10 for different flickr images.
• KFlickr – A standalone Flickr.com uploader for KDE
• FAlbum – a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.
• Flickr Album Maker – Make photoalbums using Flickr photos. Based on the php tools by Oberkampf.
• flickrRSS Plugin – This plugin for WordPress allows you to display a flickr style badge (for a tag, user, user tag or group pool) on your WordPress site.
• Flickr Greasemonkey Scripts – a huge collection of scripts that modify and enhance Flickr.
• EgoWalk – see geographically where all your Flickr contacts live in the United States on a Yahoo! map.
• flickrsavr.py – is a python script that automates the process of saving the URLs (of public photos), and also saves a local copy of thumbnails, and stores descriptions, dates, and tags in a database.
• Photo Comment Tool – One-click grab and publish any Flickr photo into a Flickr photo comment stream or forum post.
• BreadKrumbs – Build instant page to page journeys across Flickr photos. Also works as a good group promotion tool.
• Flickr at Userscripts – More greasemonkey scripts tagged with flickr.
• FlickrFavs – an application for downloading your favorite photos.
• Flickr Explorer – Mass photo downloader for Flickr.
• Flickr Importr – a tool for Windows that allows you to upload images to Flickr and automatically add them to groups and sets.
• Flyr – search flickr for geotagged photos.
• Steeev’s Flickr Projects – a collection of flickr greasemonkey scripts and other Flickr programming projects.
• FlickrRandom – presents randomly-picked photos from Flickr.
• Flickr RSS Widget – a Javascript button you can put on your website that displays thumbnails of the latest photos in any Flickr RSS feed.
• Flickr module for CMS – allows you to integrate your photo albums at flickr.com into you CMS Made Simple based website.
• Mobup – a small J2ME application that manage mobile photo uploads on your Flickr account
• fd’s Flickr Toys – fun tools for Flickr image editing
• QOOP flickr Photo Printer – online photo printing service for your Flickr photos in book form.
• GLFlickrShow – uses OpenGL to produce fullscreen slideshows with transition effects.
• Flickr idGettr – find your Flickr user id number. For some reason, the only way to figure it out is by looking at your RSS stream address.
• Flickr TopToolbar – a Greasemonkey script or a Firefox extension, that insets a toolbar across the top of all Flickr pages.
• Flickr MiniToolbar – a Greasemonkey script or a Firefox extension, that insets a small toolbar above the title of a photo on the photo page.
• Steganography with Flickr – See how steganographied images can be shared with Flickr friends to pass on documents or other files.
• Notifyr – subscribe to a Flickr photo page and get email notifications whenever new images are added.
• Flidget – is a dashboard widget for tiger that allows you to upload your photos.
• Flickr RSS Reader v2 – is an application built in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional that reads RSS Feeds from Flickr.
• FlickrDown – downloading photos from Flickr to save locally easier.
• Flickr Album - an alternative fun way to view images at Flickr.
• Associatr – A tool for browsing related tags on Flickr.
• Lfvr - A light weight flickr viewer.
• Flickr Montager – create photo mosaics using flickr tags.
• Search Plugins:Flickr – searching flickr.
• Glimmr – is a photo uploader for the Flickr web service.
• Longline Tool – composes long line mosaics from the Long Line group pool over at Flickr.
• Grabbr – is a small application to smooth the task of uploading screenshots to Flickr.
• Flickr search plugin – for Mozilla/Firefox browser.
• Flippr! -is a simple application that grabs pictures from Flickr and puts them on your desktop.
• Flickr.rb – Ruby interface to the Flickr photo-sharing service.
• Flickr People Finder – a way of finding people on the big flickr visualization.
• FlickrJ – Java wrapper for the Flickr REST API.
• Flickr Automator Action 0.1 – Automated uploading to Flickr.
• Flickr .NET – A .NET wrapper around the Flickr API. Allows desktop and web applications to provide direct image upload functionality to Flickr and its services.
• Lickr – Flickr causes delay as flash loads. Lickr strips the Flash before the user can even see it, and replaces it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript.
• Flickr Screensaver -Turns your computer into a slideshow of Flickr photos when you’re not using it.
• Flickrfox -is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a sidebar.
• jUploadr -is a cross-platform uploader for both linux and windows.
• Degradr -is a Firefox Greasemonkey script to replace flash representations of photos on flicr.com with the image files embedded in those flash files.
• FlickrExport – is a plugin for iPhoto 4 which provides a direct export interface to Flickr.com
• Photoupload – Image uploader to flickr. Upload photos directly to photoset, Use IPTC and EXIF fields in photo description, and generate tags from IPTC keywords.
• flickrate! – is an attempt to give flickr a rating system. Displays most aesthetic, funniest and original photos.
• uploadr.py – Upload images to your Flickr account in Python. Once this script is running, simply drag and drop images into the specified upload folder and watch as your images appear on your flickr account.
• Flickr Tag Related Browser -Just type a search tag and see amazing view of flickr images and browse related tags.
• FlickrClient is a Python interface to the Flickr API.
• FlickrUploadr – is a tool to upload your pictures to Flickr.
• 50 people See – is a program to blend Flickr images which share the same tags. No human is involved in choosing, positioning, or blending the images.
• Spell with Flickr -Generate one picture per letter.
• Flickr Postcard Browser – Browse Flickr Postcards
• Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs.
• TripperMap – automatically search your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Trippermap, on your own website.
• dFlickr wraps most functions of the Flickr API and provides the necessary classes to access users/photos/photosets/groups/pools/blogs in Flickr.
• Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take.
• Flickr Color Picker – Using images from the Color Fields group, just click on a color, use the slider to adjust lightness and darkness, and it will show you photos with that color.
• 1001 – is a Mac OS X application for uploading and notifying you when new photos are added to streams you want to watch.
• Flickr Rainbow – displays most recent images from all the users at Flickr which have been tagged with the colours of the rainbow.
• Flickr photos on your TiVo is an application for the new TiVo HME which can display Flickr pictures on your TiVo
• flickReplacr bookmarklet – to swap a flickr pic for that word.
• Kubrickr is a tool that lets you replace the header of your WordPress blog with a nice photo from Flickr.

Unless you own your web server and have coded the scripts of your website you’ll have little trouble finding the cause of errors your site may encounter. But for the rest of those who rely on external services, dealing with errors may be a major headache.

Many bloggers are ill prepared when it comes to the malfunctioning of their weblogs. Some become so defeated that they abandon their site; others get so overwhelmed they don’t seek help; still others do their own unscrupulous tinkering causing much further damage.

In the advent of any errors experienced by our site, it is imperative that we take the appropriate approach in addressing the problem.

Keep Track of Your Settings

First and foremost, it is wise to have a journal of your website. By this I mean records of everything within your site. You must have a detailed account of the general settings, the plugins or ad-ons installed, the contents, and any major activities you have performed on your site. You will need this information should an error occur and it will be very helpful should you seek the assistance of support services.

So if you haven’t developed any journal yet, start one now, this will save you a great deal. Also, make sure you regularly backup your sites most important files. In this way you will always have something to go back to. Believe me, this is a life saver.

If You Face A Major Error, Contact Your Hosting Company

Should an unexpected activity suddenly manifest on your site—i.e., site does not load, display is jumbled, http error codes, site hacked (God forbid!)—you must always remember not to panic. The immediate thing you need to do is to ask for assistance. Your server provider’s support services will play a vital role in troubleshooting your sites problem. The fastest assistance can be gained thru chat with the server’s technicians and trouble-shooters.

Keep in mind though that assistance personnel may vary in their technical knowledge. If the personnel whom you’ve addressed your problem cannot solve your concern try another one, believe me you will find one who is more knowledgeable that can help you. Oftentimes, this method is more than enough to relinquish your problem.

Still, support personnel have limitations in that they their assistance can only cover server configuration related problems. More often than not, they cannot help if the problem lies within your web platform. If certain errors are outside of your web servers configuration, then you have to check any alterations you have made on your web publishing application. If you are using WordPress it is imperative to familiarize your self with its codex.

Most of the errors we experience from our website spawn from the alterations we introduce by means of messing with the source code or the introduction of applications like plugins or add-ons. Every time you make changes to the code, be sure to journal where you’ve made the changes and save a copy of the original source code; in case an error when you alter the source code, you can restore it back by restoring the original.

Plugins also cause some errors on our site. Since we are not familiar with it’s coding and behavior, it may pose a conflict with other add-ons or the publishing application itself. In this case, having a backup of your system is extremely important. But before deciding to restore your back-up, consider tinkering first with the plugins. Assuming that you have a journal of the activities you made with your site, you will be able to pinpoint, where the problem has started. It could be a plugin you have installed recently that caused your web error. Of course, the viable solution is to disable it. In the past I have had problems with upgrading my WordPress automatically; even the support personnel of my server provider can’t give any solution. What I did was I disabled all my plugins before I upgraded, and this methods works without any hustle. Have I not tinkered a bit, I would have not find a solution. Remember to consider some calculated tinkering; this may give you some hint about the problem.

Having errors popped out of our website is indeed depressing, but instead of wallowing in frustration we should focus our energies in finding solutions. The above-stated methods I have tried and tested during those periods when errors continuously bugged my website. I’m so happy to have learned from this experience. And now I share it with you.

If we want traffic then we’ve got to get some links pointing at our sites and this article is an exhaustive list of ways to do just that:

1. Write amazing articles

2. Write a huge list post

3. Offer something for free.

4. Put on a fun contest.

5. Write a critique of something.

6. Demonstrate authority on a subject.

7. Write great link bait.

8. Link to other people’s articles.

9. Talk positive about other bloggers.

10. Thoroughly revise your articles.

11. Have an amazing design on your blog.

12. Think outside the status quo.

13. Write a tutorial.

14. Submit your site to free directories.

15. Submit your site to paid directories.

16. Publish an interview with a leader in your niche.

17. Publish an article about a leader in your niche.

18. Guest blog on other related blogs.

19. Ask for a link from another blog owner.

20. Sponsor a post on another blog.

21. Hire someone to build links for you.

22. Post your link in your signature in a forum.

23. Comment on do follow blogs.

24. Exchange links with a peer.

25. Sign people’s guest books.

26. Ask for a link on a website in your niche.

27. Leave your reviews of products you use.

28. Ping Technorati and others with your new articles.

29. Get involved at Yahoo! Answers.

30. Make friends with other bloggers.

31. Create and use a del.icio.us account.

32. Create an about page.

33. Create a contact page.

34. Only post original content.

35. Stay with it for the long haul.

36. Ask your readers to link to your articles.

37. Link to articles that have trackbacks enabled.

38. Build relationships with other bloggers.

39. Don’t be a spammer.

40. Get another site to review your blog.

Are you out of space in gmail and inbox size is growing like a mountain? then here is a quick tip on how to search and delete all the unwanted heavy files, recently i saw that my gmail space was already 78% full as i rarely log into gmail web as i use gmail imap along with outlook express and it was expected as i am using my gmail account from almost 5years from now and it is one of my primary email id so i thought of clearing all the unwanted heavy forwards with attachments and videos so below is the simple method i used to free the space.

gmail gives you a luxury of retrieving any mails with specific attachments by using simple queries and to list the mail headers which satisfy the condition so to search and delete all the audio and video files you can submit the below query in the search bar in your gmail

"has:attachment (*.mp3 || *.avi || *.wm || *.mov || *.wmv )"
the query is simple and human understandable just add the extension *.mpeg or any other format extension if you have received those kind of files in your mailbox
to find and delete large documents and spreadsheets or any other files such as visio docs etc use below query
has:attachment (*.pdf || *.doc || *.docx || *.xls || *.xlsx || *.ppt || *.pptx )
Most of the time pdf, ppt and docs consumes most of our mailbox space
similarly to delete all the compressed or zipped attachments use below query
has:attachment (*.zip || *.rar || *.7z )
you can even add .cab, .iso etc to the above query according to your needs

now after applying the filter and searching you can easily delete the unwanted mail from your inbox note after deleting the mails make sure to empty the thrash to get back the space as gmail keeps deleted mails in the thrash for certain period of time to recover in case if we want it back

Share updates, photos, videos, and more.
Start conversations about the things you find interesting.

Problems with Google Buzz:

1. Everyone who uses Gmail has had Buzz forced upon them, whether they wanted it or not.
2. Not available for the premium members and Google application users
3. All contacts in our G-mail accounts can be made available to the whole world through Buzz
4. I think following buzzers will increase the contact list of the G-mail account. Even I like to follow some buzzers but do not want to add them in my contact list.

Features:

1. Key feature #1: Auto-following
2. Key feature #2: Rich, fast sharing experience
3. Key feature #3: Public and private sharing
4. Key feature #4: Inbox integration
5. Key feature #5: Just the good stuff

Here are some methods to increase traffic to your blog or website. Some of these techniques will help increase sales as well as hits.
1. Have Your Own Domain – If you use WordPress or blogger, try to avoid using sub-domains or free hosting services. Pay for some web hosting and get your own unique domain name. This will make your website more memorable and encourage visitors to return.
2. Create a Professional and Unique Design with Logo – Code your own template or modify an existing theme for your site or blog. What makes your blog so special if it looks the same as 1000 others on the Internet? Make sure you have a great memorable logo so when people see it; they know it’s your websites. Your design should be clean and simple so it’s easy to navigate. Once you have made it, test it and check everything works, a site with errors will lose visitors.
3. Content is King – You need to consistently write great content on your blog or website. The posts that you make need to be worth reading and have some impact on the visitor. If I am visiting your website for the first time, I want to be impressed and bookmark your website so I return to see what else you compose.
4. Post Linking – When a link is made to your blog from another blog, if activated, it places a link in that blogs comments back to the relevant post. This will help increase back links to your blog and therefore increase traffic.
5. Personality – Do not pretend to be someone you are not as a blogger. Be yourself and do not act otherwise. This is best because your readers want someone to connect with, someone who is a real person and not just a blog with no face.
6. Always Room for Improvement – Always strive to improve your blog or site any way you can. Play around with ad placement, colours and graphics and other features to make your blog more appealing. Ask for reviews to find area’s for improvement.
7. Reply to Your Readers – This means replying to comments and any e-mails that you receive. This is part of your personality and showing that you are a real person who exists and cares about the topic you are blogging about.
8. Real Posts – Ensure that you sound human in your posts. Do not post in the third person. Use words such as “I” and talk about your personal experiences.
9. A Picture – A picture paints a thousand words so why not show your readers who is writing the blog. Upload an image of yourself onto your about page, or if you are not quite comfortable to do that then have a cartoon of yourself made.
10. Comment on Other Blogs – This is a very powerful technique, I know I find myself clicking the link to a person’s website after I have read their comment and this is what you can achieve by leaving your comment on as many other blogs as possible. Blogs that are about the same topic will help you get targeted traffic. Ensure your comment is worth reading and not just a load of rubbish.
11. Question Your Readers – Ask your readers questions in posts, this will help to provoke a response from them. You give them an important role to play and they respond by commenting their opinion. This will encourage repeat visitors to respond to your posts with their opinions.
12. Internal Linking – Linking to previous posts that you have made will create more back links and also encourage readers to re-read or look at some of your older work. Readers of a particular post will be interested in related posts so ensure you link to them.
13. Alternate Text Images – When you use images on your site, ensure that you use alternate text “alt” tags to insert keywords or the name of the image. This will help get the images listed on image search engines and result in traffic from that source.
14. Submit to Directories – Submit your site to online directories. Do this to as many as you can to improve your PageRank. This increased back links to your website and there for you receive higher rankings on search engines. Quality back links are important so try and obtain some from high Page Ranking sites that have similar content to your websites.
15. Image Use – Try to use images when posting on your blog. These make posts more fun to look at and can break up boring text.
16. Join Forums – Join many forums and message boards that are related to your websites content. Place a link back to your website in your profile and signature and frequently post useful information to other members.
17. Keyword Rich Content – When writing articles or posts on your site or blog, ensure you include relevant keywords so that people searching for the topic will have an easier time finding your article.
18. Write Intriguing Post Titles – Ensure that you write intriguing post titles that have keywords in. This is what is going to show up on search engines so ensure your spelling is right and that you would want to click it.
19. Meta Data – Get as much use out of Meta data as you can. Try to have a different page description and keywords on every page of your website.
20. Write a Press Release – Write a press release about something to do with your website and publish this on news sites or press release websites along with sites that are relevant to your niche.
21. Merchandise – Create pens, pencils, t-shirts, mouse mats etc that have your websites logo and address on. Maybe sell the t-shirts from your website however give you the free pens in your local area.
22. Advertise Locally – Place an advert in your local business newsletter or in a local shop. List what the purpose of your website is and hopefully you will receive some interest. Local traffic can really help especially if you are selling something. Visitors will be much more inclined to purchase from someone locally than from the other site of the world.
23. Share a Secret – It is likely that your website will be based on something you have an interest in, so why not share some inside knowledge that many of your readers may not know. Let them know something that has helped you and only you in the past. Curiosity is a marvellous thing.
24. Advert Experiments – Naturally most will want to make some money from their website and therefore adverts will be on there. Try and experiment with your adverts placement to see which gets better results. Do not overload your website with adverts because this will deter visitors. Maybe implement a membership system that removes 50% of adverts when logged in.
25. Social Bookmark Posts Plugin – If you have a blog then get a plugin for your posts that allows your readers to click a button and this will then bookmark your site on digg, stumbleupon, reddit etc. 
26. Ask for Diggs – There is no harm is asking your readers to Digg posts that you have written. This will help increase the number of dig users visiting your website.
27. Ask for Comments – Ask your visitors in your posts to post their comments about the post. If you are not getting as many comments as you would like then anything is worth a try. 
28. Ask for Subscriptions – While asking for comments you may was well ask for other things such as subscriptions to your RSS feed. Ensure there is a big button that can be clicked that allows subscriptions to be made simple and stress free.
29. E-mail Subscription – Allows users to sign up by e-mail so that your blog posts are delivered to their e-mail address. This will ensure visitors do not miss any of your posts.

30. MyBlogLog – This is a great service that shows an image of your visitors on your website if they are registered. There are similar blog social networking sites that can also be used for this.
31. Post Rating – Enable a plug-in on your blog that allows visitors to rate your posts. This is a simple way that does not require registration to enable readers to report on how good a post is.
32. FeedBurner – Using a service such as Feed Burner allows you to monitor the number of subscribers you have. Many readers will be interested to see how many other users are reading your blog and are subscribed to it. Use their publicize services to show the number of readers.
33. Commenting – Try enabling and disabling the “must be registered to comment” feature to see which yields more results. You should find that without registration, more comments will come through; however this does mean that you should implement some spam protection feature.
34. Online Homepages – Many people use Google for example and have iGoogle activated. This is why you should have an RSS plug-in that allows users to click and it adds to feed to such services.
35. Write a List Post or Article – Writing a bulleted list can sometimes be easier on the reader and writer if you have lots on information to roll off in one post. This is a list post and makes for easy reading.
36. Article Marketing – Write an article and post it on sites such as article beech or ezine articles. Ensure you include a link back to your site in the article. Make sure the article is great so that people will want to read more of your work.
37. Autopinger – use sites such as autopinger.com to submit your blog to lots of websites.
38. Submit Site to Search Engines – Manually submit your site to the major search engines on the web and also use auto submitter websites for lesser known search engines. Organic search engine traffic is great and will increase your ad revenue.
39. DMOZ – Submit your website to dmoz.org. if you manage to get listed this will really help your traffic stats.
40. Site Contests – Offer a prize to the 1000th subscriber or commenter to encourage whatever activity you want. The prize could simply be a text link on your website, however the more appealing the better.
41. Banner Exchanges – You could try a banner exchange service however you may not be able to choose what type of banner is placed on your site. Try and contact other bloggers with similar content and ask for a link exchange.
42. Site Load Time – Check how long it takes your website to load and increase the speed if necessary. This is important to ensure visitors are not leaving before the site has fully loaded. Try to use smaller images or multimedia if your site is slow.
43. YouTube – Create a YouTube account and add you link in your profile so that you might get traffic from people who view any videos that you upload. Make videos relating to your website content so any traffic is targeted.
44. About Us – Get your site listed at Wiki – about Us Wiki Page, this is another way to increase back links. On the site you can put information about your website.
45. Tags – Tagging your posts or articles on your website is a great way of entering keywords to help search engines. Make the most of these where you can.
46. Categories – If you have a blog then use blog categories with meaningful names that use keywords so that these show up in the websites URL and on SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages)
47. Permalink – Check to see if this features is enabled. If its not then enable it and have the post title in the URL.
48. Holidays – These are great for marketing so ensure that you are ready. Start making posts and site content about Christmas / Easter or whatever about a month before the event. This gives search engines chance to list your posts. Then when people search for Christmas XXXXXX your site will be there. – Maybe decorate your site to suit the holiday theme.
49. Interviews – Interview other sites and post the interview on your website. Alternatively get interviewed by other sites yourself.
50. Selling your site? – Pretend to sell your website. I sold a site recently and the traffic shot up. If you can list your site free then you have nothing to lose apart from responding to offers. However the chances of any of the traffic you received returning is slim. You may benefit from padding out your MyBlogLog section.
51. Surveys – Have a survey or poll on your website, not large, just a small one in the sidebar somewhere that allows visitors to vote on a controversial question or something that will change on your website depending on a vote.
52. Blog Networks – Create a blog network where you can link all your blogs together. This will take up a lot of your time, however if you have it spare the more the better providing the content is unique and remains at a high standard.
53. Create a Site Template or Blog Theme – As the title states, create a theme and have a link back to your website in the footer. 
54. Plugins / scripts – If you have the knowhow, create a plug-in or script for a website and have a link back to your website.
55. Comedy Writing – If you can write funny content, this will attract lots of readers. I know I have returned to a blog in the past due to its humour.
56. Social Networking Site – Use social networking websites such as MySpace, gain lots of friends and then post a bulletin about your website.
57. Reviewing – If you are honest and able to post great reviews then review sites and products and post about them on your website. If this is successful then other sites will want to be reviewed by you.
58. Get Reviews – Go to other sites and ask them to review your website. No one like’s criticism so be prepared to take some. It is likely to benefit your site in the future though.
59. Post News – Try and be first to post breaking news in your niche. Get listed on news websites such as Google News which will increase your traffic.
60. Awards Program – Create an awards brand. Get webmasters to submit their site and you offer prizes or just a graphic that states they won or passed your tests for a great website. Use your imagination.
61. Resources – Write posts that link to resources that may be useful to your type of reader. A webmaster blog may link to free stock photo sites as a post and list them in order of best first.
62. Treat others as you wish to be treated – This speaks for itself. If a reader of yours needs a hand then take the time out to help them. They will appreciate you for it.
63. Edit Posts – Go back over old content on your website and update it if it needs updating. Insert relevant links into old pages that go to content that is similar.
64. Yahoo Answers – Get an account at Yahoo Answers and post your blog URL in answers where appropriate. Only do this when you have a good reputation and the content is relevant and will actually help the user.
Great! That’s it for this time. If you learned at least one thing from this post it was worth reading!