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  • Want Instant Delivery of New Blog Posts & Comments?
    Lightning over the outskirts of Oradea, Romani...

    Jabber is almost as fast as lightning.

    Do you ever wish you could get instant notification of when your favorite bloggers update? Or even when a new comment is published on their blogs? If so, you might want to try out a service called Jabber to make your blog conversations as fast as lightning (well, almost as fast).

    With Jabber, you get instant delivery of new blog posts and comments — for any blog you want to follow. This means there’s no need to wait for your RSS feed to update, or to use blog email subscriptions.

    There are endless ways that Jabber might be used, but let me give you a real-life example straight from WordPress.com headquarters. Of course, being a blogging company, our staff uses a lot of different team blogs to track information and to communicate. By using Jabber, we get instant notification when someone has published a new post or comment — and in return, one of us can respond right back. Often, these threads become full-on conversations, almost as if we’re in a chat room. However, because we’re using WordPress.com, we have a stored and searchable record of the conversation. It’s a super-fast, super-efficient way of communicating online.

    Using Jabber requires that you have a WordPress account and use a Jabber client. You then connect following our instructions, and presto: instant communication.

  • More ways to share

    Starting today there is a new way for your readers to share the posts on your blog with friends. This feature allows you to add sharing functionality from a range of services to the bottom of your blog posts.

    Here’s a quick video introduction:

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    To begin with we have the following services for you to choose from. If there is a service missing from the list, don’t worry! You can add your own custom services as well.

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Press This
    • Reddit
    • Digg
    • StumbleUpon
    • Email to a friend
    • Print

    You can control these new options in your dashboard by going to Settings > Sharing.

    You can choose which of these services you want to display and in a range of different formats. If you have the custom CSS upgrade you can go even further and choose your own icons and layout. We have also added stats for all activity around this feature so you will be able to see what content people are sharing and on what services. Check out the sharing support article for more information on getting setup. Note: We will also be realizing this as a WordPress.org plugin next week.

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  • Jazz Up Your Posts With Zemanta

    Ever wish you had a blogging assistant who helped you write posts that are full of great links, photos and tags? Wish no more: We’ve partnered with the folks at Zemanta to give you a hand at quickly jazzing up your posts.

    Once you’ve activated Zemanta, you’ll see several new widgets on your edit screen that let you quickly add recommended links, photos, tags, and articles. With just a few clicks your post goes from simple to snazzy.

    How to Activate Zemanta

    To add Zemanta, go to Users > Personal Settings in your Dashboard. You’ll see a new option near the end of the page that lets you add Zemanta to your posts. Click “Help me find related content (images, links, related articles and tags) to use in my posts.” Hit “Save Changes” at the bottom of the page. You can turn it off at any time.

    How It Works

    Here’s how Zemanta looks in your edit window. (In this example, I’ve opened and dragged the Zemanta “Recommendations” widget up next to my text box.) It’s giving me a set of recommended photos, articles, and one link to add to my post.

    I then clicked a photo I liked, as well as an article and the recommended link. Zemanta automatically adds them into my post as I click on them.

    Here’s how my post looks after it has been spiffed up by Zemanta:

    A Few More Details

    If you don’t like the results Zemanta is giving you, you can hit “refine” to see a new set of recommendations. And if you’ve changed the topic of your blog post, hitting “update” will give you new choices. You can use as many of the Zemanta recommendations as you like, or you can ignore all of them — totally up to you!

    Currently, Zemanta works on English-language blogs and can only be used in the visual editor mode. It’s not available on private blogs. Photos recommended by Zemanta are copyright-cleared, but we urge you to check out the photo’s license if you have any doubts (you can do that by hovering over the photo).

    Please see this page for more helpful details on how Zemanta works, as well as our Support document on Zemanta.

    Enjoy!

  • New Theme: Oulipo

    Are you tired of clutter? Are you looking for a theme that puts the focus on your content and gets out of the way? Meet Oulipo, our newest theme. Oulipo’s clean, grid-based design and elegant typography make it perfect for a one-page announcement site, a photoblog, a journal… or anything else you choose to showcase.

    Example showing Oulipo's light color scheme and beautifully simple layout.

    You’ll notice the unique placement of the left-side menu: it’s pinned in place. This keeps the site title, description, and main navigation in view at all times. A screenshot isn’t good enough—see it in action on the Oulipo demo site.

    Make Oulipo your own with your choice of light or dark color schemes, background color, header image, and custom menu. Tip: If you choose a dark-colored background, switch first to the dark color scheme in AppearanceTheme Options to take advantage of contrasting text and border colors.

    Example of Oulipo's gorgeous dark color scheme.

    The simple beauty of this theme is a sight for sore eyes. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

    Designed by Andrea Mignolo, Oulipo is now available for WordPress.com and, for self-hosted WordPress.org sites, from the WordPress.org Themes Directory.

    Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):

    1. Main column width is 470, sidebar is 176.
    2. Custom header image dimensions are 712 by 80 (width, height).
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  • Phone Your Blog

    A broken telephone I saw while wandering around Bangkok

    It’s happened to all of us. The night starts off innocently enough with a little gin and tonic, maybe a mojito, then next thing you know you’re doing tequila shots with the bartender and the girl from Brazil and you find yourself thinking it would be a treMENdous idea to call up your ex and see how they’re doing and perhaps impress them with your newfound wit.

    We’ve got the cure. Now, instead of drunk dialing random friends, lovers, and acquaintances one at a time, what if you could dial your blog and talk to the whole world at once? It’d be like something out of Star Trek.

    The future is now, folks. You can now go to your My Blogs tab, enable Post by Voice, and get a special number and code to call your blog. After you’re done, the audio file from your phone call will be posted to your blog for all to listen to and enjoy. (And added to your RSS feed for podcast support.)

    So now you can post to your WordPress via the web, email, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, desktop clients, and now any telephone in the world. Of course when you post it can be pushed to Facebook, Twitter, and more using the Publicize feature. What more could you want?

    Right now this is completely free, but we’ll charge you money to take down posts. Just kidding! We’re making it free and allowing recording lengths up to sixty minutes, but that limit may go down without a paid upgrade in the future. Mostly we’re just curious to see how people use this.

    I have a few ideas myself, but to find out you’ll have to listen to this voice post:


  • New Twitter “Tweet Button”

    For those of you who have been dreaming of an easier way for your readers to share your posts on Twitter, that day has come. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added an official Tweet Button as an option for all WordPress.com blogs.

    How it works: When one of your readers hits the Tweet Button, they will be shown a popup that includes a shortened link to your post. Readers can add in a quick message, and then hit “Tweet” to send the post to their Twitter feed as a tweet — all without leaving your blog.

    Additionally, each time a reader tweets your post, you’ll know it: The tool keeps a live tally of tweets, so you’re never in the dark about how your blog posts are performing in the Twittersphere.

    To enable the button on your blog please visit the “Appearance > Extras” menu and select the “Show a Twitter Tweet Button on my posts” option.

  • Thirteen Virtues listed by Benjamin Franklin 1. TEMPERANCE - Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION - Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY - Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful;...
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  • Wherever You Are, Be There. Often we find ourselves focussing on past and future, and never even notice that present is slipping by.
    ~1 month on Twitter
  • Destiny is not a matter of chance - it is a matter of choice - it is not a thing to be waited for - it is a thing to be achieved.
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  • During wind and rain by Thomas Hardy http://goo.gl/fb/whrSu
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  • “Whatever with the past has gone,The best is always yet to come.”- Lucy Larcom
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