Artroute.com is my bookmarklets hub

TRU streaming video is here –> http://barabus.tru.ca/bccol_awards/

http://www.facebook.com/apps/directory.php

http://developers.facebook.com/

http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

Google Translate makes your website instantly available in other languages

Add Google’s website translator to your webpages, and offer instant access to automatic translation of the pages. Adding the website translator is quick and easy. Here’s how to do it:

http://ping.fm

Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!

Much of the content on this blog involves information on marketing your site through social media and social networking sites. However, maybe you want to create your own networking site to fill an existing void or rather than using some of those that already exist. If you are interested in building a networking site, you could of course have the site built from scratch, or you could use some type of existing platform to handle the back end of the site.

BuddyPress – http://buddypress.org/

For WordPress users, BuddyPress may be an attractive option. With BuddyPress you can turn a WordPress MU installation into a social networking site.

EXAMPLES:
http://flokka.com/about
http://weheartthis.com

BuddyPress is too many features for me but examples are good for ideas

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interesting – http://www.socialgo.com/

from http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/monetize-your-blog/automated-blog-profits-guide

What you will create as result of following ALL or SOME recommendations in this guide WILL NOT make you an authority blogger. It will earn you income (I have tested each part of the strategy) but how much will depend on your efforts as with any internet venture.

Allow me to explain the Main Idea first:

Create a WordPress blog that will have a Content optimized for Search Engines, posted automatically at some interval and promote itself without getting you banned from social networks. Have that content monetized. Rinse and Repeat the process.

Sounds simple enough? It almost is and while I haven’t seen a single product that accomplishes that task I have found an effective combination of the few that will get VERY CLOSE! And while almost each product makes their own recommendations on blog installation and plugins, I want to share what worked for me: –> read more http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/monetize-your-blog/automated-blog-profits-guide

Read about WordPress Theme Blix with Google AdSense (Now 2.5 Compatible) here – http://www.morearnings.com/2006/08/13/wordpress-theme-blix-with-google-adsense/ or google more

The Google Translate Tool is available from http://translate.google.com/translate_tools. To use it:

1. Choose your website language.
2. Choose to translate to all supported languages or a specific selection.
3. Copy the code provided into your web page.

Like most translation tools, a drop-down list of supported languages is provided on your page in the location where the code was pasted.

However, if your browser is set to a default language other than the one you’re viewing, a translation bar automatically appears at the top of the page. The bar is provided in the visitor’s language and offers a one-click translation process.

The Google translation tool supports over 50 languages. Even Welsh.

Example page is here http://blogs.sitepointstatic.com/examples/tech/translate/index.html

more about Google translate tool – http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

#1. en.wikipedia.org (1)
#2. youtube.com (3)
#3. flickr.com (2)
#4. twitter.com (9)
#5. google.com (4)
#6. myspace.com (6)
#7. facebook.com (-)
#8. imdb.com (5)
#9. nytimes.com (7)
#10. apple.com (8)

There is one new entrant, Facebook at #7. washingtonpost.com moved out of the top 10, dropping from #10 last year to #12 this year.

Twitter is the biggest mover, up 5 places to #4.

Wikipedia is still the most cited website on the Web, for social media users and bloggers. YouTube and Flickr, two oft-used media sharing services, occupy the next two spots.

Last year we noted that there were 10 independent blogs in the top 100, including ReadWriteWeb. There are the same number this year, with a couple of new entrants. Here is the blog list circa November ‘09, again with last year’s rank bracketed:

#23 techcrunch.com (#25)
#26 huffingtonpost.com (#32)
#33 engadget.com (#28)
#37 boingboing.net (#29)
#39 gizmodo (-)
#41 mashable.com (#91)
#53 arstechnica.com (#50)
#60 lifehacker.com (#63)
#78 readwriteweb.com (#97)
#93 smashing magazine (-)

Read more http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_most_influential_websites_in_the_world.php#comment-170572

http://ping.fm

Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!

from http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1124212
recommended by Rich B.

Additional analysis on some of the technologies and trends at the Peak of Inflated Expectations that will reach the plateau in two to five years are included below:

Cloud Computing. As enterprises seek to consume their IT services in the most cost-effective way, interest is growing in drawing a broad range of services (for example, computational power, storage and business applications) from the “cloud,” rather than from on-premises equipment. The levels of hype around cloud computing in the IT industry are deafening, with every vendor expounding its cloud strategy and variations, such as private cloud computing and hybrid approaches, compounding the hype.

E-Book Readers. Sony’s e-book reader and Amazon’s Kindle have attracted a great deal of attention during 2009. However, the devices still suffer from proprietary file formats and digital rights management technologies, which along with price, are limiting their adoption and will drive them into the Trough of Disillusionment.

The following have tipped just past the Peak of Inflated Expectations:

Social Software Suites. Awareness of social technology is high because of the popularity of related consumer social software and Web 2.0 services. Within businesses, there is strong and rapidly growing evidence of experimentation and early production deployments. The movement from point tools to integrated suites has brought broader adoption but also high expectations. Disillusionment is beginning based on the realization that, even with a suite, much work must be done to build an effective social software deployment.

Microblogging. Microblogging, in general, and Twitter, in particular, have exploded in popularity during 2009 to the extent that the inevitable disillusionment around “channel pollution” is beginning. As microblogging becomes a standard feature in enterprise social software platforms, it is earning its place alongside other channels (for example, e-mail, blogging and wikis), enabling new kinds of fast, witty, easy-to-assimilate exchanges.