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Sometimes simple can be good, especially if it is a nifty site like a short URL site or perhaps a site that searches domain names, or even favicon manipulation sites. SingleFunction contains articles on different sits to whet your need to see simplicity at its finest. The site is a clever creation of Webmasterish.

The site is one big showcase. I had to say that I was pretty impressed with the smorgabord of sites covered and the information gathered about each. You can even suggest a site, but it has to be a site based on a singular type of function. Also, you can vote on the sites showcased. Even Re-Url.me is showcased there. Re-Url.me is a single function site for shortening URLs and I give the script away here at the site – free to use. Feel free to leave a comment there or send some vote love… well, I would hope you might. *bats eyelashes*

This is a great site to surf around and pick up a few tools. I saw some sites showcased that are simply dedicated to helping webmasters chose the right color palette. This site is truly a showcase to resourceful sites.

During WordCamp Chicago, David Dalka, one of the speakers treaded upon the topic of Tweetmeme. First he asked, “What is the most popular social media site launched in 2009?”

I am sure as you all read that, you thought it was Twitter. Nope! It is Tweetmeme. Tweetmeme is a site that people can tweet through their site and onto Twitter. This means your visitors can tweet it at the click of the Tweetmeme button from your website. In a way, Tweetmeme is a new digg-like resource using Twitter. People are finding relevant topics to bookmark and share with others in a way that is more real-time.

The content on Tweetmeme is categorized and easy to find. If you notice on Blondish.net, there is a Re-Tweet button, which is actually a WordPress plugin that allows you to re-tweet my pages and articles onto Twitter. Pretty cool, huh?

Although I have seen the Tweetmeme button around, I can say that I was not motivated to use it until WordCamp Chicago. My only issue is that the plugin has not turned out to be HTML valid. I want to continue to use this plugin, but it has thrown up 18 errors in the W3 validator.

Do you use Tweetmeme? What do you think of it?

Last week I blogged Follow Frenzy with MyTweetFollowers.com?. While in a way it does own up to what it says, there was one thing I did notice as well as some of my followers.

The following message was sent more than once in the stream in a day.

100 NEW FOLLOWERS A DAY!!!

http://mytweetfollowers.com

From what it was told from the creator, Cord Marston (@cordm on Twitter), you only send out 1 tweet when you sign up and then once a day. I noticed I was sending out more than 4 tweets a day with this system. This ends up as spam to my members.

I asked if a person has to re-join when their profile is off of the “rider” rotation, which you have to join at least 20 of them and all of the paid VIP people. This was what I was told:

Answer: The regular riders are taken off the regular list after 40 new people join. So for every 40 regular riders that join you are taken off and have to follow new people to join again.

So, if you join 5 different times, you are going to get more than 1 tweet a day than what was originally told. The other does not fall off? This is a bit confusing. If there are 40 people as regular riders, you get 40 possibly followers… that is if they choose you out of the 20 others. You are guaranteed a follower if you are a VIP.

My only thing is that it is unsettling to me to pay to get followers, especially when the user is not even employed by Twitter itself. It would be like someone making good money off my graphics when they are not for commercial use. Yes, I have to credit the general idea, but I think it should be free and based on the point system that goes with it. Twitter does not currently have anything in regards to people creating applications to make money off of their services, so I should not be complaining. My big reason is a recent tweet that came through Cord Marston’s twitter stream:

yes everybody i make money on twitter. no you can’t have vip on my site. and you will suck my dick if I get on aim? lol. aim – cordonmyspace

I am not sure after that one if I would want to even purchase a VIP account from him. That is not very professional. If you have tried it out, but no longer wish to be a part of it, you can opt out.

As for the type of people that I came across through MyTweetFollowers.com, most were real people and no bots. However, I only have spoken with a few that also tried the program, so I would say it is more a program for those who want bulk up their followers.

If the site comes back up, I would recommend using the free section, but not going back a second time as you may put more than one tweet plugging that site. Otherwise, I would stick to the organically old fashion way of getting followers – by connecting with them first.

Yes, you can now buy and own your followers at Buytter.com. No, you will not own them for real, but it is a real fun Twitter application that you can buy your followers and see how much you are worth to them. Yes, in a way, it is another vanity-type application, but it is still fun.

The application is much like the MySpace application that also offers some of the same things, just that it is designed for Twitter users using the Twitter API. When users join, it really is easy as you only have to either allow it to automatically connect with Twitter or for your to log in with your Twitter username and password. (By the way, that information it not shared with anyone.) Every user starts off with $1000 buytter dollars to spend. You can simply purchase your friends and let the games begin. All newbies on the site are worth $200.

You can also send a gift, a kiss or poke your friend. I actually made a suggestion to the creator, Chistophe Lefevre (@Bleebot on Twitter) that he should consider putting like a daily ‘login’ bonus. I already got a response back that he would think about it.

On note of fun sites for Twitter users, I will most likely have a blog soon listing some of the ones I think are great.

I have been here and there in different fandoms, whether anime, celebrities, or even hobbies, I have been eager to connect with others. However, as of recent, I have found that I can support those fandoms by contributing articles to FanHistory.com. FanHistory is a wiki that contains thousands of articles on different fandoms like actors, politics, sports, television, music and more. In fact, the number of articles total well over 500,000.

The great thing about the site is that if you are a fan of something, your article submissions are welcomed. It is fun and a way to connect with others. For those of you who I know run fanlistings, you could even submit your fanlisting within your fandom there. You just go in, register, find your niche, and insert your information on the pages of your fandom. You can even create a new page if your fandom has not been covered or if there is a part of the fandom not mentioned, like in anime, it could be categorized down to the character. Also, if you have a fanlisting, it could help you get a good reciprocal link.

In fact, I encourage you if you are a big fan of anything in particular, go to FanHistory, look up your fandom to see if it is listed. If it is not, you should add something about it. If it is, well, you can add more if there is anything missing.

ChatCatcher is not just a plugin for WordPress blogs, but other types of blog systems. It is suppose to catch your messages at various places. One of them is Twitter. The script is great in getting trackbacks, but it does not catch everything.

Understandable… nothing is perfect. However, how can ChatCatcher improve upon this. I imagine it has to do on the growth of twitter versus the server load that ChatCatcher can take. Of course, I am sure there is a script to combat spam and a lot gets ate up by that. And an added… of course, I am assuming that as I know I would do what I could to eliminate spam on a popular script that involves the transfer of information from one place to another.

I do recommend ChatCatcher to use if you have a blog and twitter. However, if you find you are not having all your tweets trackbacked onto your blog posts, do not be disappointed. It is just expected to be a hit and miss type deal.

I could not help it. When @morbidromantic sent an invite, I checked out Blip.fm and decided to join. Once I got in, I got so enthralled that here I am, writing about it here.

The site is a play where music meets social media. You can share your playlist or ‘DJ’ on your Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and a few other social media websites. I have been a bit addicted with it and have already favorited more than two dozen songs.

Also offered there are video clips of songs too. You can also follow those you know or follow people you happened to surf upon and liked their playlist. You can issue ‘props’ or for those familiar with forums, ‘karma’ points. You can also receive ‘props’ from another user if they like your stuff.

No, you cannot be a DJ, but you can sure feel like one, especially when your audience are the people who follow your updates across the social media world.

Yep! It is true! There is a place for tweets from the trend topic WordPress. The most common hashtag association with the trend topics #wordpress and #wp. The site is called wpTweety. The site was created by Sergej Müller.

The site’s function simply finds those topics on WordPress and automatically posts them to the website. This is a brilliant idea. However, I do have one thing I suggest because I frequent the WordPress topic on Twitter. My only suggestion is that perhaps there should be the ability to post, kind of like a tweetchat and the twitterwall that wpTweety has. It would be a place that those in WordPress might even suggest as a secondary means from their support forums in the future.