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We recently implemented the Comment Luv Wordpress Plugin on this site, which visits the feed of the commenter and attempts to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment.  

We have since discovered that if you use Feedburner to syndicate your feed, which we do, you must change the default Comment Luv settings, or it displays your own post instead of the commenter’s.   To correct this, in settings, change the Comment Form Identification to ID instead of Author.  

We have since fixed the problem.  We apologize to those that have left comments since we implemented CommentLuv and to remedy the situation, here is a thank you to all of you, with some manual link love the old fashioned way….

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Social bookmarking site, Ma.gnolia, puts the social in social bookmarking providing an online venue to “Discover, Share and Discuss the best of the web.”

If you already have an Open ID or LiveJournal ID, you can use that account to sign in to Ma.gnolia.  If you are unfamiliar with Open ID, it is a decentralized identification system that allows users to login to many sites using one ID.  

Once signed in, set up your profile with an About You blurb, home page URL and image/avatar.  Next, stop by your preferences to establish your privacy settings.  If you’d like to add your Ma.gnolia activity to your blog, check out the  Blog Tools.

Ma.gnolia Social Bookmarking

clipped from ma.gnolia.com In social bookmarking, thousands of people keep their bookmark collections on a website instead of on just one computer. Doing so brings several big advantages.                                Bookmarks Anywhere Keeping your bookmarks on a website allows you to access your favorite websites from anywhere. Your bookmarks are available and always backed up no matter which computer you use.   Find Stuff Other People Like And even better, you can see what other people have found and share bookmarks with your friends. Bookmarks can be kept private, but most are public and available for everyone to see. See who has the same interests as you!   Find the Best of Web through People, not Machines In social bookmarking, you only find the bookmarks that other people think are worth keeping. Ma.gnolia ratings and tags instantly give you an idea of what people think of a bookmark, making your web searches more informed than ever. It’s like having a community of assistants help you find what you need, when you need i

Ma.gnolia Add-ons

♦ LinkRoll Generator:  Shows a live roll of your Ma.gnolia bookmarks on your blog or website. 

♦ TagRoll Generator:  Displays a live roll of your Ma.gnolia tags on your blog or website

♦ Ma.gnolia Marker:  Allows Mac users to bookmark right from the Dashboard

♦ Button Generator:  Genenerates a   button linking to Ma.gnolia.com, Ma.gnolia signup, your bookmarks or one of your Ma.gnolia groups.

♦ Ma.gnolia Roots:  This is really cool.   connects you with the Ma.gnolia community as you browse the web.  Simply drag the red Roots banner to your links or bookmarks bar, then head out to any site on the web and click the Roots symbol. A pop-up window appears displaying what the Ma.gnolia community thinks of that site.   Find out more at the Roots Screencast.  Very cool and you can even use Roots with Chrome ;-).

Business social networking and online address book provider, Plaxo, has been gaining popularity and, according to their website, currently “hosts address books for more than 40 million people (and growing rapidly).”

Locate and Connect to the People in Your Life

The Plaxo Address Book

The Plaxo Address Books can be set to synchronize with other address books so that every time you delete or modify a contact in one of them, the change will reflect across all the address books you are synching with. The address books that Plaxo can synch with include Outlook, Google, LinkedIn, Outlook Express, Hotmail, Windows Mobile, Mac, AOL, Windows Mail and your cell phone.

Getting Social with Plaxo Pulse

Pulse is the social networking side of Plaxo, which provides a stream of your content from numerous social sources such as blogs, calendars, social bookmarking sites, social photo sharing sites, social networks, microblogging platforms, video sharing sites, and wish list sites.   The resulting content stream is displayed under the Pulse tab and enables your connections to keep up with your social networking in one convenient location.

Ready to Get Started with Plaxo?

As far as business social networking goes, a Plaxo presence is a must.  

Begin by registering and then set up a profile which can include an image, contact information, personal/about me info, work and education history and URLs to your websites and blogs. 

Stop by Settings to establish notification and publishing settings and when setting up your profile, make sure to set your desired privacy settings.   Last, when adding your feeds from other sites for Pulse, be sure to set the desired filter for displaying your Plaxo Pulse information.

People:  People in your Plaxo network are called connections.  Based on your profile, Plaxo will assist you in finding people you may want to add to you network.  You can also invite people via email and search for people you know that are already on Plaxo.

Calendar, Notes & Tasks:  Plaxo provides an online calendar than can be synchronized with Google, Yahoo, Outlook or Mac. 

Plaxo, who was acquired by Comcast in May 2008, has been around since 2002.  Learn more by taking the Plaxo Tour or by stopping by the Plaxo blog.

“It’s sort of a cross between Facebook, a blog and Squidoo.”
  Seth Godin

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How many times have you encountered a web page or blog where something isn’t quite right - the header isn’t showing, there’s a typo or a broken link, maybe there’s that lovely white box with an X in it where the image should be?

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Squidoo is a collection of over 700,000 pages created by users about whatever they want the world to know - ideas, recommendations, interests, instructions - basically any topic that they know or care about. 

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While browsing the books on a friend’s bookshelf one day, Goodreads founder, Otis Chandler, had a thought - why not build a website where people can share what books they are reading or have read, write short reviews and then discuss them with friends, old and new.   And so he did.

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Today thousands of bloggers unite to discuss a single issue - poverty with a goal of raising awareness, promoting discussion and initiating action to help reduce poverty across the globe.

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Have a few links, photos or quotes you’d like to share with the world, but not really a lot to say?  Then tumble on over to Tumblr and easily express yourself with your own tumblelog.

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