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This episode is sponsored by CAMPUS BOOK RENTALS – – AUDIO PODCAST for Monday, July 19, 2010 :Frontierville players have racked up some impressive gameplay stats. We tell you the Top 7. Facebook to hit 500 million users this week. Stupid companies closing down their blogs and moving all in on Facebook. Indian men like using Vasoline to lighten their skin. Netflix is finally heading to Canada this fall. Life360 app shows you where the perverts live around you. Apple admits they aren’t perfect. Apple says iPhone 4 drops more calls than 3GS. Xbox 360 sales surge. Kmart now posts consumers website ratings on store shelves of video games. The japanese sell a portable whole watermelon cooler. Some teacher in Virginia uses holy water on her public school students. And much more.

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‘Social Media Scientist’ Dan Zarella has written a new report that states that Facebook users share articles more often if the content is about sex.

While we are all fully aware that sex is one of the top content ‘go-tos’ on the Internet (whether people want to admit it or not) it is amazing to me not only is ‘sex’ the numero uno of shared articles on Facebook, but that Facebook itself allows the content …

With the new year a number of new blogs are created partly as a result of a resolution. New bloggers put a number of hours into their site only to be frustrated by the lack of readership and/or traffic. Your blog may start out as a great passion, but that can quickly drain if you don’t get some sort of recognition through comments, tweets, Facebook re-posts, or just the sheer number of visitor numbers.

Wordpress version 2.9 has been made available to all users for instant upgrade through the Wordpress Control Panel or manual download. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg wrote on the official blog saying that this release includes “over 500 tickets, bugs, and enhancements”. Quite a leap in versions since we just enjoyed the version 2.8 upgrade just six months ago.

How long would it take to translate all the world’s web content into 50 languages? Even if all of the translators in the world worked around the clock, with the current growth rate of content being created online and the sheer amount of data on the web, it would take hundreds of years to make even a small dent.

There are so many ‘experts’ in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) running around the web and Twitter telling us what we should and shouldn’t do with our blogs and web sites. What better place to get your REAL information than from the #1 search engine service on the web: Google. Why not just ask them what I should and shouldn’t do?

Today, Google addressed a question regarding the header information that appears at the top of most every web site on the net. The question that was raised was, “Does Google ever use the ‘Keywords’ meta tag in its web search ranking?” they asked.

Googles response in their own words:

Wordpress made an interesting announcement today by posting that they turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on Wordpress.com to something they call the RSS Cloud. Basically, it’s a way for people to get push notification that your blog feed has updated.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: My blog updates already notify people through services like Ping-O-Matic and let people know about my new blog post. To be honest, it all depends on your RSS reader and how often you have it set to check for new articles. Currently, most people interact with RSS feeds by checking its update every now and then – typically about once an hour. Could you imagine waiting an hour for an email? The RSS Cloud is an extra element in your RSS feed that allows subscribers to say “Hey, let me know as soon as you’ve updated, kthx.”

It’s a beautiful holiday weekend here in the States and many bloggers who decided to enjoy the Labor Day festivities may have missed a HUGE news story that came out on Friday/Saturday. Any version of Wordpress below 2.8.4 are now under attack!

The latest version of Wordpress 2.8.4 made some changes to the WP-Login.pho file through which attackers are able to create Admin ID’s and then do some changes in your permalink by populating it with their own keywords. As a result, you will lose your links, traffic and most of your Wordpress database. Does that scare you enough to make the upgrade?

Twitter is the fastest growing social networks. Taking advantage of this growth and audience is crucial for your WordPress blog. If you’ve considered integrating your WordPress blog with Twitter you may want to check out these 5 top notch plugins that will help drive traffic to your site.

Selecting just 5 Twitter plugins was no easy task, but we feel these 5 stand out from the rest in delivering consistent quality and content to your site. Let’s count them down …