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Everything else has a score measurement system, why not Twitter?  Ever wanted to know how you rank on Twitter?  Now you can find out for yourself using Twitter Score!  This fun online service will tell you your score on Twitter, depending on your follower, rank, friends and updates.

As an example, we did a quick testing of @lunarpages to see how we score.  Right now we have a 6.55 out of 10, which puts us above average.

Is this important?

Not so much.  It is more for fun than anything else – to see how you rank in the world of tweeters out there.  Want to know who is on top right now?  Check out the top Twitter scores here.

Here is a little more about how the scoring system works from the developers:

Twitter Score bases scores of Twitter users on three factors: friends, followers and frequency of updates. Based on the quantities of all three scores, a score between 0.01 and 10.00 is produced.

In order to make the scoring fair, the bottom 30% of those scored are offered a handicap, and the top 10% of those scored are weighted down to make the playing field level.

What does your Twitter Score say about you?  Let us know in the comments after you go check out twtscore.com.

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Original post by Amy Armitage

What ways to do you give your blog readers to bookmark, share or save things you have posted?  With WordPress, and the powerful plugins, you can extend sharing and saving bookmarks, and take the experience to a whole new level. 

Here are 10 of the most popular bookmarking related plugins for the WordPress publishing platform.

 AddToAny – Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.

 Socialable – Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.

 Simple Facebook Connect – Simple Facebook Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog.

 AddThis – Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows your users to bookmark your site easily with over 200 popular services, and to share it with friends via email.

 Share and Follow – Designed for average users to use, ideal for developers who want to save time, this plugin gives links to the most prominent Social Networking sites for sharing and following.

 Social Bookmarks – The Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites.

 Social Bookmarking RELOADED – The Social Bookmarking RELOADED plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of social bookmarking sites.

 Only Wire – OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click.

 Bookmark Me – The Bookmark Me plugin will add buttons that let your visitors share your content on social media sites such as Buzz Up!, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Mixx, Reddit and StumbleUpon.

 Bookmarkify – The Social Media Marketing Plugin that lets you put social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. Help your readers promote your blog!

There is my top ten choices for the best bookmark and share plugins for WordPress.  Have another that does the job better?  Let us know in the comments!

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Original post by Mitch

Looking for a fun way to spend a few extra minutes of your day?  If you are looking for an escape from your Monday morning blues – give Gartic a try.  This web-based drawing game is a lot of fun.

The idea here is to join a room, and then have everybody take turns guessing what one person is trying to draw.  Each round a word is given to a player and that player must draw it, the best they can.  When the word is guessed, both the guessing playing and the player that is drawing the image gets points. 

Think of it as playing Pictionary on the Web with a bunch of strangers.  Go give it a shot, at http://www.gartic.net/.

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Original post by Mitch

Looking for a fun way to spend a few extra minutes of your day?  If you are looking for an escape from your Monday morning blues – give Gartic a try.  This web-based drawing game is a lot of fun.

The idea here is to join a room, and then have everybody take turns guessing what one person is trying to draw.  Each round a word is given to a player and that player must draw it, the best they can.  When the word is guessed, both the guessing playing and the player that is drawing the image gets points. 

Think of it as playing Pictionary on the Web with a bunch of strangers.  Go give it a shot, at http://www.gartic.net/.

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Original post by Mitch

Better late than never, the January/February edition of the Lunarpages web hosting newsletter is out, and ready to be enjoyed by the masses.  This month we have tons of web hosting tips, tutorials and news to share with you all, so be sure to check it all out, today!

Lunarpages is introducing many neat new services, such as the:

• New Online Marketing Advertising Plans
• Reseller Hosting for Webmasters
• Web Hosting Gift Cards are Back!

Also, to help you advertise your web site out in the real world, we are giving you up to $110 of MySpace advertising credit. If that was not enough, you even get 20 more ways you can earn a buck from your web site hosting too.

That is only half of the greatness we have in store for you this month.  Go check out the rest of the Lunarpages web hosting newsletter to learn more about what is going on in Lunar-land today.

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Original post by Mitch

Mitch “Boot Camp” Keeler

One page that has become a common thing to see, no matter what type of web site it is, is an “about us” type page.  However, some web site are still missing this very important page.  This page is important to have because it lets your visitors know a little more background information about what it is you do, and what your web site is about.

There are several ideas or questions you should be able to answer, once the about us page is complete.  One of these would be, who are you? Make sure you let people know who you are and your background information on what it is you do.  Another question you should answer is how can I contact you? Listing your contact information here and elsewhere on your web site will give your visitors direct access to get to you if they need to.  You also want to make sure you tell people about the web site.  Give me a short summary and description on what your web site is about.

Breaking things down to the very basic level, your web page is about giving information in one way, shape or form to the general public.  You need to make you you get that information to them as clearly as possible, and never leave a question un-answered about you.

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Original post by Mitch

Erik Theuer, Product Manager SMB at Internet Group do Brasil asked a question “What in your opinion will be the future of our industry? (5-yr range)?” in LinkedIn “Hosting Industry group”. He offered three answers - a) Nothing will change; b) Players like Microsoft and Google will dominate with free basic hosting, charging users for […]

Original post by D.Avramov

I can not imagine that any quality web hosting company does not provide phone support to its customers. Taking phone calls is important because any client might need a to discuss a number of things with its provider - from technical support and service customization to upgrade to higher class web hosting solution. Having […]

Original post by D.Avramov

Most web hosts (I mean shared ones) are… well stupid. They claim to offer 2 things you never need. One is 99.9% uptime, another - “750 GB disc space and 7500 GB bandwidth” (well they mean “data transfer” but say bandwidth… no one is perfect). Why do I say 99.9% is not important? Because if […]

Original post by D.Avramov

It is new, I don’t know how new, but I’ve seen it a few days ago. I’m talking about Googles decision to display “News results for…”, a news titiles related to search terms web surfers type in the G’s search bar. These go almost on top of first page with results (SERP). The system of the […]

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