Probably you have heard about an unofficial apps store for Twitter called oneforty. If you haven’t, you better check this out.

oneforty is a great way to find, rate, collect and share Twitter apps or services which improve its functionality. Over there you can find tons of resources: from desktop to smartphone clients, there are plenty of apps which you should check out. Currently they are tracking 1611 apps that make Twitter even better!

How To Join

Do you remember ping.fm? Well, oneforty works the same way ping.fm did once. Being beta at the present time, you need an invitation and a twitter account in order to surf/use this website. If you don’t have an special  invitation, you can sign up to make your request. After a day or two, you will receive a special link directly in your inbox which you can use to create your account and start finding apps to improve twitter!

What I Think

Twitter is a great service which many people use everyday. In fact, I’ve been waiting something like this since a long time ago , and I’m sure either you.

Yesterday I was looking for a new client for my smartphone and I found exactly what I wanted. I get surprised when I saw how many apps they have listed there, I mean they have a lot! So if you don’t use Twitter so much because you think is boring or something, I definitively recommend you to request an invitation for this site to check out what they’ve listed for you. Surely, you will find something that fits your necessities.

Are you an oneforty user? If so, what do you think about it?

Hello my dears,

This week I was so busy to write something for you, so instead I collected a series of links that I found while reading my feeds:

• Four Ways To Find More Personal Time by Laura on Freelance Folder.
• How to Blog for a Global Audience by Liz on ProBlogger.
• 6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Future of Search – Google Beware by Gyutae on WinningTheWeb.
• Things You Need to Consider When Planning Your Placement Targeted Google AdSense Campaign by Jason on JohnCow.com.
• Tips for Making More Money with Facebook Ads by Zac on ZacJohnson.com.
• The Art of Writing Damn Good Blogs by Salwa on Thou Shall Blog.
• Feeding the Monster: Where to Get Content for Your Blog by FMFon JohnChow.com.

Also, I want to let you know that guest posts are welcome now. So if you want to publish something here just send me an email or contact me through Twitter @mrjavo.

I almost forget something! My friend RJ Tayaban, blogger of TheWebblogZone is holding a great contest which you can win a WordPress blog:

• One Year Blog Hosting with BlueHost
• Domain Name (Subject to availability)
• Thesis WordPress Theme
• Custom Header, Logo and Banner
• WordPress, Thesis And Plug-ins Installations
• Blog Transfer: Blogger To WordPress
• One Month Free Support + 30 Minutes Telephone Support

This contest is to encourage Blogspot bloggers to migrate to WordPress . Check his blog to find more information.

Have a good weekend!

If you haven’t heard of it, Twitter is a microblogging tool that is all the rage these days. The basic premise behind Twitter is one of short, simple messages that are “twittered” or posted to the twitter platform from the web, text or desktop applications. Twitter can be a valuable source of information, connections and trending news and you shouldn’t miss out.

Here are a few ways to get more traffic to your website through twitter:

1. Post your RSS Feed to Twitter

There are multiple tools available that allow you to post your RSS feed in realtime. The most popular tool that most people use is Twitterfeed. Your followers will get immediate knowledge that your post has been created on your blog. This is excellent because not all of your followers on twitter will necessarily be readers of your blog, but by tweeting your feed they will gain knowledge of your blog.

2. Follow People In Your Niche

Follow other bloggers, send them tweets and become friends with them. Twitter allows you to communicate much more easily and build relationships faster then email ever would. Once you have become friendly with them, you can start guest posting, asking for more exposure, and getting your posts more readers and your blog more subscribers.

3. Hold Contests Via Twitter

Give things away via twitter. You will gain more followers, who will become more aware of your blog, your brand and will start reading your blog and its posts. The best way to do this is similar to the way the Affiliate Summit gives away Free Passes – ask people to twitter a reason why they should win the contest, the answer to a riddle, or what they think about your blog, for example.

4. Solicit feedback on Twitter

Ask friends and followers to give you feedback on new content, get their reactions, and continue the conversation on your blog or on Twitter.  Social media and Twitter are all about being interactive, so make sure that you continue the conversation in any and all appropriate mediums.

5. Embed a Twitter box on your web page

Let visitors to your web site know that they can always be instantly updated – install a twitter box on your web site that updates with your latest tweets, and invite your website visitors to follow you on Twitter. Why have your subscribers follow you on Twitter? It helps you build a brand, it increases loyalty, and it gives you more exposure for very little extra work.

Hi buddies, first of all I want to let you know that I have released a new section of my page called Web Design Services. As you can imagine, over there you can find all my design services which include:

• Not available yet.

So if you want to hire me for one of those jobs please use the contact form.

Now let’s check what I found this week. Personally, I think that there are very valuable resources of Seth Godin and Chris Brogan among others!

• 8 Google Lessons I’ve Learned from Garry Conn by Yan on Thou Shall Blog.
• How I Use Twitter at Volume by Chris on ChrisBrogan.com.
• The Importance Of Participating In Forums by Mattaw on MoneyBites.
• How Planning Can Make You Broke by Alex on JohnChow.com.
• Top 7 reasons affiliate marketers should be using StumbleUpon by Derek on Click Consultants.
• The number one secret of the great blogs by Seth on Seth’s Blog.
• 5 Brand-Building Actions Every Freelancer Should Take Now by Dave on Freelance Folder.

Yan talked about 8 Google lessons that he learned from Garry Conn, and I have to say that it’s a great post that I have learned from!

Also I highly recommend you to check out the post of Alex on JohnChow dot Com. It’s very related with the article that I posted this week titled Do You Plan Your Projects.

In conclusion, all these posts are great! So I hope you like it and see you the next week!.

To finish, I want to wish Good Luck to all the participants of my Contest! Tomorrow I will make the sweeptake through random.org…

Since I started this blog, many useful tools have been born: Entrecard, Spottt, BlogRush….. Now it is the time of Plurk!

What is Plurk?

Well Plurk is a pretty tool similar to Twitter. It is a site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life, in a dynamic screen where you can see every event posted by your friends. So as you can imagine, it is a great tool to expand your network, make more friends and get new readers!

I signed up two days ago, and I have received hundred friendship requests. Actually, I have 209 people who follow my events, making it a great broadcasting tool for bloggers.

Why to Use It?

When someone invited me to this new community, I reject the invitation. I thought that it was a totally waste of time, but after a minutes I reconsidered the idea and I visited the link. I liked how it looks and I could appreciated the potential for us, the bloggers! So, I signed up, receiving instantaneously several friend requests ( of course, I shared my profile’s link through twitter ).

the following one is a little list of reasons you should use Plurk:

• It Works As A Broadcasting Station: Due to the big amount of people in this community, it is perfect to broadcast your blog events. It’s perfect to promote a contest, polls, new posts and these kind of things.
• Brand Extender: As a good blogger, you need to expand your brand if you want to be easily recognizable in the web. By signing up in Plurk, your name will be spread between many people, who probably will be bloggers or internet marketers. In conclusion, it’s perfect to make new partnerships.
• Traffic Maker: For the same reasons commented above, it can be a new source of traffic. I have received some emails from people congratulating me for my blog, and then they made a little reference telling me that they saw my profile at Plurk. It works? I think so!

Basically, Plurk is a new social network which you can extend your brand through other bloggers, getting more traffic to your blog, increasing your readers and subscribers.

Add me at Plurk!
Do you haven’t an account? Sign up here

What do you think about Plurk? Share your opinions or tips here to feed this community…. By the way, don’t forget to participate in the Poll, which you can find in the sidebar, bellow the Skribit widget.

Bye Bye!

First of all, if you don’t know what twitter is, let me give you an introduction. Twitter is a service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

It was created because even basic updates are meaningful to family members, friends, or colleagues, especially when they’re timely. Basically, with Twitter you can stay hyper-connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing. So what is the point of this post?

The Correct Use of Twitter

Recently I have seen how the most of people are using Twitter, and I think their use is incorrect. I’m going to tell you why, and also some of the correct uses of twitter. These are:

• Making New Friends
• Using it as a ToDo list
• Notifying Your Customers
• Taking Notes
• Event Updates
• Setting Up Meetings
• Getting Feedbacks about your Blog
• Anything else like the above

As you may or may not know, you can configure your cellphone to receive text messages when someone updates their status on twitter. This way, you can stay in tune with your friends, coworkers or family.

The Incorrect Uses of Twitter

A lot of people are using Twitter simply as a tool to SPAM. I can understand that a blogger sends messages to twitter saying “I updated my blog, check the latest post and give me your feedback”. It is reasonable that a blogger wants to promote their posts and hear the opinions of their readers. But what happen when the same people overflow the limits of the “promotion” and become spammers?

Daily, I receive several messages with an single purpose, to spam!!. I will tell you why they are using twitter incorrectly:

• They are only tweeting links: is not enough to them sending messages to get a feedback of their posts, in addition they send you the link of them. This is sad, if I would want to read your posts, I could subscribe me to your RSS but there are not need to spam every single post which you write on your blog.
• They Flood the system: At twitter you can see all your messages at your home. Sometimes, I can see successively, multiples messages from the same user. That has only a name: SPAM.
• They are using Bots: because of how they behave on the system, I could noticed that some of the people who I’m following are bots. They always begin a message with the same greeting, or end it with same quote.

Why the people think that they can use Twitter as a traffic generator? At the most twitter can be classify it as social network. If you want to get traffic just use traffic swarm, link referral or services like these. Please stop spamming. There are people who use these bots to automate their feed to post everything they have wrote on their blogs.

As marketers, many people want to promote their product or service, it is a reasonable desire. The problem is that they don’t care about their followers, and they don’t care about personalizing the message. They are sending a generic messages to each of their followers .

The Conclusion

However, you can stop following these people . The thing is that everyday, more and more people are using twitter to spam their links, and not with the purpose for which it was made. This must to be resolved! I think that the administrators of Twitter should start to track those people spam and ban their accounts! .

Seriously, I’m thinking about closing my twitter account, what do you think about it? I have removed like 20 persons/bots from my twitter, know I’m better with the service  :grin: . If you want to follow me, this is my profile.