Matt forgot to tell about ads on WordPress?

Now I can see Google Ads on this blog. The day before yesterday, Seejay, amazed and showed me Google Ads on my blog. It was not a huge surprise for me as Matt once said that they have plans doing such a thing and I put my opinion here.

However surprising thing was that I didn’t see any notices from Matt for any other WP guys saying “Google Ads are ready for WP”. Or maybe I’ve missed all the news (I have Matt’s personal blog [previously photomatt.net] and WP.com blog on my RSS reader though).

Once I saw the ad on my blog I scanned through some of my WP admin pages to find if I have any control over those ads. However I failed. Maybe I missed that too. The not-so-cool thing is that I had an “Ads Free Blog” banner on my blog. Probably few of my readers have been laughing at me for this. If you come in this category please note that it’s not my fault. By the way I erased that banner yesterday.

I believe that Matt had to put a note about this. If he has done its ok but if it isn’t… Maybe it was a kind of testing or something but still WP guys have responsibility to post a note.

If it’s gone, let it be gone. This little bug is not enough to break my love on sweet WordPress. Still I love you dear WordPress :) .

PS- I am waiting for Matt’s reply for my email on this issue.

Add Twitter & Facebook status updates to your WordPress(.com) blog.

Update(07.04.09):WordPress now has a Twitter widget.

Updated this post with new images & steps [17 Dec 2008].

We do love WordPress(WP) so much even though we lack Javascript support. If you ever wanted to add your Twitter updates on your wordpress.com blog, here’s a simple way to just get the thing done.

First, Go to your Twitter page & retrieve your Twitter RSS address & copy-paste it on …err..a text file ;) .

In Your Twitter Home page at the bottom left corner there’s a button named RSS.

[If You use Firefox just right click on the RSS button & choose 'copy Link location'.]

I normally Burn my feeds with feedburner. But I had problems burning Twitter feed. There is a validation problem in Twitter RSS. In this case you can use plain Twitter RSS address.

You can have a wide variety of feeds with Friendfeed.com. You can get twitter feed through friendfeed. And also mixup other social networks into one feed easily with Friendfeed. To get a Twitter feed through Friendfeed just replace ‘chanux‘ with your Friendfeed name in following URL. Make sure you’ve added Twitter on friendfeed.

http://friendfeed.com/chanux?service=twitter&format=atom [you can burn this feed]

Then find your Facebook ‘My Status’ RSS feed & copy it down too.

• Make sure you are logged in to Facebook & follow this link to your Facebook Minifeed page.

• And look for following feed link on minifeed page & save the link address.

You can get your Facebook Status FEED address there. Your Feed address would look similar to this. http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=#########& viewer=#########&key=##########&format=rss20

Now the WordPress stuff.

• Now go to widgets page in your wordpress admin pages.

• Add an RSS widget.

• Choose to edit the widget.

• Paste the RSS address & choose a title for the widget. Select number of items to display from drop down box (5 is decent).  click done.

• Do not forget to Save changes :)

You can add Twitter and/or Facebook feed address in your sidebar like this.

Hope This tutorial is helpful. If you like, consider following me on Twitter :) . All Images are uploaded on PhotBucket

Universal online ID

Do you want to be *you* wherever you are on the internet? .Did you use your Nick name &/or avatar to represent you when you comment on blogs, shouting in forums & so on? Have you ever been looking for a universal Identity on internet?  If you are a serious online person you might have said “yes” for three times.
I always wanted to show it’s me in my online activities [which are not intended to be stealthy ;) ]. That’s why I registered on mybloglog.com  , Gravatar.com  & was proud to be on wordpress.com . I wanted a universal ID for my online activities.Open ID did not impress me though.
However we are one step close to such a thing, a universal online ID because automattic acquired Gravatar.com . Automattic the company behind WordPress, Technorati  which are cool services is now has their hands on Gravatar.com which gave us a globally recognized avatar. I believe this would be a great combination & it would give us nearly-universal ID.
Once you are registered & do the rest, Gravatar.com let’s you use your email address as a key to your identity. When you put your email when you comment on a Gravatar enabled blog your avatar uploaded on Gravatar shows up to represent you.
From now on all wordpress.com blogs will be Gravatar enabled. WordPress will soon provide easy ways to set self hosted wordpress blogs, Gravatar enabled. I feel this would get me nearly-universal online ID & great it would be my email address.
Hurry up & join the club. Read this before the jump.

PS: All about setting up gravatar support for your wordpress.org blog is HERE

WordPress on Facebook — what does it do

Wow it’s amazing… I can post to my my blog from my Facebook Account. I can add bookmarks, I can check my stats & I can find if my friends post on wordpress. It works fine & I know WP guys are improving like always. WordPress is cool unless you are gonna make money on your blog [Soon you'll earn on WP too].

**BANG** **BANG** any more to leave WordPress? **BANG** Phew!

PS-this post is from inside my Facebook ;)

Selfhosted wordpress people would get this feature soon according to Matt.

WordPress On Facebook

WordPress Rocks. It gets whatever I want whenever I want.Fell in love with Facebook and WordPress got me an app. wow . check it here.