Some of the main features are :

• Points System: Users earn points for answering questions
• Best Answer: The Question asker can select a “Best Answer” and that person receive extra points
• User Profile Pages: Each user gets a profile page which records their Questions and Answers
• User Registration: Users can register without knowing they are on a Wordpress Site
• Automatic Content: We include a system that pulls content from Yahoo Answers using their API and posts it on your site. Any replies are also posted as comments.

The plugin also comes with 6 optimised themes, here is a screenshot of the default blue one :

For full details head over to WP-Answers.com

I’m also running a generous affiliate program for this which pays out 35% of any reffered sales, that could work out up to $87 per sale. Full details here, along with signup and banners.

To show you the power of blogging, today we look at the top 30 sales of blogs of all time, in this list we have included single blogs, blog networks and blog platforms.

Some of the numbers are quite astounding. Could you build the next $100Million blog ?

Hopefully this list inspires you to work harder on your blog – it may not be exhaustive so if you know of any other large blog sales, please leave them in the comments.

In today’s roundup post I’m going to be taking a look at custom blog designs to give you an idea of how unique some designs can be. The designer’s of these blogs truly show what can be done with blogging software, talent and a bit of imagination …

1. Tarek Shalaby

2. Behind the Websites

3. Jesper Bernardino

4. SquareSpace

5. Outlaw Design Blog

6. Line25

7. Matt Mullenweg

8. Jono Buchanan

9. Tutorial 9

10. Web Designer Depot

11. Blog Spoongraphics

12. UX Booth

13. Mix Online

14. Blog Medianotions

15. Ollie Kav

A lot of celebrities and musicians have embraced Twitter – in this round up post we take a look at 25 of the most popular for you to follow.

1. @johncmayer – Recording/Sandwich Artist

2. @iamdiddy – KING COMBS

3. @coldplay – The official Coldplay twitter page.

4. @ashleytisdale – The Official Ashley Tisdale Twitter Page. New album GUILTY PLEASURE coming 7/28!!!

5. @50cent – The Real 50 Cent

6. @souljaboytellem – Actor, Rapper, Producer, Gamer, & C.E.O. Of SODMG

7. @MCHammer – http://mchammer.com

8. @SaraBareilles

9. @MariahCarey

10. @petewentz – the official pete wentz twitter. bass, clothes, mischief

11. @AFineFrenzy – hi there, i’m ali. i’m in a band called a fine frenzy. life is funny. let’s have a laugh.

12. @markhoppus – he Official Mark Hoppus Twitter Page, for what it’s worth… Be warned, I tweet a LOT.

13. @twtfm – Share music on Twitter

14. @alyankovic – You know… the Eat It guy.

15. @johnlegend – The Real John Legend

16. @jimmyeatworld – A rock band from Arizona

17. @pitchforkmedia – The essential guide to independent music and beyond.

18. @amazonmp3 – Daily Deals and special sales on DRM-free, play-anywhere music downloads from Amazon. The official Amazon MP3 twitter feed.

19. @samantharonson – Don’t be mad, UPS is hiring.

20. @LennyKravitz – I am giving away two spots on my guest list for each show on my European tour. Starts 4/17 through the Summer. Let Love Rule!

21. @DaveJMatthews

22. @zoecello – Cello, computers and pancakes. The daily twitterings of a professional avant cellist and amateur nerd.

23. @PaulaAbdul – The Real Paula Abdul – American pop singer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.

24. @noushskaugen – Download an Exclusive song FREE www.NoushSkaugen.com – Singer, Songwriter, Actress, Idealistic Dreamer….Together we can change the world…

25. @questlove – your favorite twitterer’s favorite music snob.

In this post we will be taking a look at yet more apps which extend Twitter’s functionality – These apps make it easy to upload files and share them with your followers.

1. File Social – “FileSocial is the easiest way to share files on Twitter. You can upload any kind of file, from pictures to videos,PDFs or Power point… Whatever you want”

2. FileTwt – “FileTwt brings file sharing to twitter. With FileTwt you can now easily upload and tweet about your files for free.”

3. Tweet Cube – “TweetCube allows you to share files on Twitter. Simple as that. Blast out your images, videos, music and more with just a couple of clicks, and your files are automatically posted on Twitter”

4. Twit Doc – “Upload your file, shorten the URL, and post a tweet all in one easy step. No sign up needed. Use your existing Twitter account in the form below or download our FREE Adobe AIR desktop client which enables you to drag and drop your files into your tweets”

5. Twitizer – “The free and easy to use service for sending long texts, photos (or other pictures), video clips and/or audio clips (or podcasts) to Twitter directly from your mobile/cell phone.”

6. Twitter Contd – “Upload up to 100MB of images, audio, video, and documents.”

7. Tweet FTP – “Upload a file to either your own FTP server (coming soon) or to uploads.tweetFTP.com and share on twitter via public broadcast tweets or private direct messages. This site is secured with SSL and uses OAUTH (signin with twitter). Currently, you are able to upload very large files (one file at a time)”

8. Tweetafile – “The only thing that people can do through email that they can’t do with Twitter is send files. Now with TweetaFile, you can. Pictures, videos, documents… whatever you want to share with your followers or individuals, you can do it with Tweetafile.”

9. Twit FS – Filesharing for Twitter, handles all types of file and you receive a set of links to publish to Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Myspace, email, message boards, and IM

If you know of any other web apps in this category, please share them in the comments.

These days I’m find that I have quite a few Twitter accounts – my personal account, plus I register a new account for each new website I launch. It can be a pain managing all these Twitter accounts using their web interface so in this post Im going to take a look at apps which make this easier for you.

Web Apps

1. Matt – Multiple account twitter tweeting. Matt makes it easy to post to multiple Twitter accounts without having to log into each one every time.

2. Hoot Suite – “HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success.”

3. Twitt Bot – “TwittBot is a service that allows multiple people to publish to a single Twitter account, and for a single person to post to multiple Twitter accounts”

4. Tweet 3 – “An advanced, Web-based Twitter client that supports grouping, Facebook, stats, multiple accounts, pretty pictures, trending topics, and all sorts of other cool, awesome, and fantastic stuff”

5. SpliTweet -”Easy management for multiple Twitter accounts and brand monitor The definitive twitter client for heavy & corporate users. How many twitter accounts do you have?”

6. Twit IQ – “TwitIQ is an enhanced Twitter interface that provides insight into your Twitter stream and Twitter followers. With TwitIQ you get:

• Full Twitter View/Update features
• Keyword & Topic Insight into Tweets
• Filters for Tweet streams
• User Profiles with Keyword & Topic Insight
• Integrated Twitter and Blog/News Search
• Support for Multiple Twitter accounts
• + Many other UI enhancements”

7. Tweet Funnel – “TweetFunnel is designed for companies, organizations, academic institutions or anyone who would like to have more than one person contribute to a Twitter stream. You can also monitor for tweets mentioning your username, create stockpile of tweets for future use, schedule tweets and assign tweets to another user for follow up. Plus you can manage multiple Twitter account from one easy-to-use interface.”

8. Co Tweet – “Multiple Accounts and Multiple Users – Manage up to six Twitter accounts through a single CoTweet login.”

As always, if we’ve missed anything out – please tell us in the comments.

Thanks a lot.

By installing your own URL shortener on your domain you get links to your blog’s domain as well the traffic.

I was searching for a solution for this and found Yoururls.

First off you install the URL shortening script as you would Wordpress – create a database, add a user, then upload the Yoururls files and edit into the config file with your database details.

Once that’s up and running, you can download a Wordpress plugin from the site, enter in your Yoururls installation details and it will automatically post shortened urls using your domain to Twitter.

For those who’d like to delve a little deeper in to Twitter’s statistics, there are a number of handy apps you can use to analyize data. Some uses for these apps would be to track your brand name, see the data behind trending topics & to analyize your own followers. In this post I will be taking a look at some of the better applications.

1. Twitter Stats – Allows you to type a keyword in to the search and find out how many mentions of that on Twitter of a period of time. Displays a handy graph with your search result.

2. Tweetronics – A slightly more advanced version, this app shows the number of mentions of your keyword/brand and displays a chart, also shows the sentiment towards the keyword by showing negative and positive tweets.

3. Twitter Digest – “Large amounts of fresh tweets are streamed from Twitter API in real time and analyzed by Open Calais and OpenNLP in real time. These conversations are from millions of Twitter users. Topics and keywords are automatically identified and ranked by popularity within a 24-hour period. The topics ranked at the top gives a timely snapshot of what most people are talking about on Twitter today.”

4. Twittas – A number of different apps to find out statistics about your twitter account such as, when you will reach 1 million followers, how long you have been a member, finding your first followers etc.

5. Twitter Analyzer – Excellent app which lets you delve in to statistics about your account showing graphs of things like follower growth rate, commonly used hashtags, number of people exposed to your name etc.

6. Twitter Top Twenty – A number of Top 20 stats about twitter – top topics, users by followers etc.

7. Tweet Buzzer – Realtime statistics on brands being mentioned on twitter – can use it to search for your own brand as well.

8. Klout – “Klout allows you to track the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph. We collect data about the content you create, how people interact with that content and the size and composition of your network. From there, we analyze the data to find indicators of influence and then provide you with innovative tools to interact with and interpret the data.”