1. New location for labels:

Labels now appear in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of Gmail). Labels are now shown above your chat list, grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels. So, no new sections for labels.

2. Label hiding and showing:

Gmail will now automatically show the labels you use most and hide the rest. It will save you from having to look through labels that you rarely use. When you want to view your old label, just click the “more” link.

3. Drag and drop labels:

To organize you emails, now you can now drag messages into labels. This is the simplest way to label and archive your emails. You can also drag labels onto messages.

via: Gmail Blog

Just enter a search query as you always have, and see new results instantly stream in at the top of your screen in real-time. No need to constantly click refresh. It’s an extremely useful (not to mention mesmerizing) way to immediately see what people are saying about a particular topic. You can search across just your friends or all of FriendFeed, including imported services like blogs and Twitter accounts.

What’s more? You can even embed a FriendFeed search on your blog or web page and the results will be updated in real time. FriendFeed is also working on some advanced features which will allow you to subscribe to saved searches, add them to your friend lists, and even get notifications based on search keywords.

How to use  “Do Stuff For Money”? Simply type in your first name, the first name of the one you want to send an offer to; the dollar amount you want to offer for completing the task you propose; and the task you want the person to do for you. Once you’ve completed the form, click on the “Send Offer” button and the service will inform your friend via email or Facebook. Moreover offers are displayed online for public viewing!

What if you received an offer from your friend? In that case, you’ll have two options - either accept it or decline it. If you decline it, you don’t need to do anything else and the service will notify your friend. If you accept it, “Do Stuff For Money” will let the sender know and then it will be up to them to pay you for your work.

How to pay your friend? It is simple. Login to your PayPal account, go to Send Money tab and enter the details to pay your friend. There is no difference from a normal PayPal transaction. However, I noticed that “Do Stuff For Money” accepts only round figures (no cents) and $1000 is the limit.

So, with “Do Stuff For Money” PayPal wants to add the fun element to the way we send and receive money online. Use it to challenge someone or send some prank offers to have a little fun. Or simply use it to pay the money you owe to your friend! In other words, “Do Stuff For Money” is a cool way to send personalized offers to friends, family-members or colleagues to do something for a set fee. Try it today. At least send some prank offers!

Visit: https://www.paypal-dostuffformoney.com/

So, this opportunity is really great. Put your ideas into a short video and you could take away $5000. Want a sample video? Take a look at the official video. It is funny, but to win the contest you need to be more creative.

Video Requirements

1. Create a movie clip (live or animation) up to 2 minutes in length, showing your creative and  funny ways of making money online.
2. Finish the movie with the attached slide: “Infolinks Challenge – Final Slide”.
3. Upload your video to YouTube at www.youtube.com.
4. To join, send an email to blog@infolinks.com during the Contest Period. Don’t forget to include your complete name, address (including zip code), telephone number, primary e-mail address and the URL of your video application posted at www.youtube.com.

Judging Criteria

All video applications will be judged based on:

1. Creativity
2. Originality
3. Entertainment Value
4. Performance Level
5. Humor

Prizes

There are total three prizes:

1. Grand prize: $5,000
2. First prize: $1,000
3. Second prize: $500

The Infolinks Video Contest starts on June 22, 2009 and ends on July 31, 2009. So, you have nearly one month in your hands. Start brainstorming today and come up with a unique idea. During the contest period selected videos will be posted on the Infolinks blog for all to view. So, stay tuned to their blog and all the best!

More Info: Infolinks.com

SEO Smart Links plugin can automatically link keywords and phrases present in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and even tags on your blog. By default, it looks for keyword phrases that match the titles of your posts and pages. But you can also set it to look for Categories and Tags for automatic linking.

SEO Smart links also allows you to set up your own keywords list and set of matching URLs. Don’t want to link certain words or phrases? You can easily define the list of keywords you don’t want to link. Moreover, it allows you to assign nofollow attribute and set links to open in new window.

Installation of SEO Smart Link plugin is very easy. Download it from the link below, extract the content and upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. Then activate the plugin from the Plugins page of your WordPress dashboard. Once the plugin is activated, use the SEO Smart Links options tab to change your options. The default options are enough for most users. But, it is recommended that you add some words or phrases to the ignore list. Try it today!

Need a different plugin for Search Engine Optimization? Try the SEO Post Link plugin, which will make your post link shorter and SEO friendly.

Plugin Page | Download Link

After a successful trial with a small group of partners, Google is now opening up the AdSense for Mobile Applications service to all developers of Android and iPhone applications. The timing is right! Smart phone users now spend more time on small mobile apps to do various tasks. Google AdSense for Mobile Applications will allow app developers to earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in their Android and iPhone applications. All they need to do is sign up for the beta program and implement AdSense directly in their applications.

Susan Wojcicki, Google Vice President of Product Management, wrote in a blog post:

“We’re excited to open up this beta to more developers, and look forward to offering new features for our mobile advertisers and publishers in upcoming releases.”

The implementation is easy and ads will be displayed automatically. As a mobile application developer, you can determine the appearance and positioning of ads in your app, and even you can filter out ads you don’t want to appear. The ads can be targeted by keyword, demographics, and location. For more information and to sign up for the beta program, visit http://www.google.com/ads/mobileapps/

Twitcaps delivers real-time search experience by utilizing the Twitter Search API. It fetches Twitter results in 10 seconds interval. For the search functionality it supports any valid Twitter search operators. For example, twitter search, “happy hour”, #haiku, to:techcrunch, @mashable etc. Right now, Twitcaps supports the following image services - Twitpic, yFrog, Twitgoo, flickr, img.ly, tweetPhoto and MobyPicture.

Twitcaps have an unique feature called “Capture”, which allows you to create copy of an image posted on Twitter and re-tweet it under your own account. To use this feature, you need to click the “Capture this pic” button that appears in the upper left corner of the full-view of an image. The captured image is uploaded as a new image to Twitpic service and you can browse all of the images you have captured on Twitcaps by clicking the “My Captures” button on the main toolbar.

There is another feature called “MetaCap”, which allows you to capture all of the images you are currently viewing on Twitcaps. It is like a screenshot and will be saved to your account if you are logged in.

Twitcaps also offers RSS feed of the image stream. By default there are two RSS feeds for latest images and popular images. You can also access an RSS feed with any filters you have applied to your Twitter account by adding your Twitter username to the RSS url.

Twitcaps is a perfect tool for image lovers. As it is still in Beta, there may be some glitches (though I didn’t experienced any during testing). Want some more features? Don’t worry! Soon, some new features such as full-screen, passive slide-show mode, capture categories, capture slideshows will be added to this Twitter image search engine. One more thing! As it displays latest images in real-time, some NSFW images may appear. Beware!

Visit: http://twitcaps.com

How to add blogger homepage only links or widgets/gadgets?

1. First add a new widget to you blog sidebar or any other widgetized location. To do that, sign in to your Blogger account, go to your blog Dashboard and click the “Layout” tab. Then, click “Add a Gadget” on your desired location and choose the type of gadget you want. Save the changes and remember the widget type and title.

2. So, your widget/gadget is in and it will appear on every page of your blog. Now, you need make it appear only on home page. Go to “Edit HTML” section under the “Layout” tab and click the “Expand Widget Templates” check box.

3. Now, you need to find the code for your widget. Note that all widget codes starts with same characters. Hit the “Ctrl” key and the letter “F” key at the same time. A pop-up window (Internet Explorer) or a bottom bar (Firefox) a will appear. Enter the following code in the find field.

<b:widget id=

4. Code lines which starts with <b:widget id= will be now highlighted. This is the first widget code. Use the “next” or “find next” button near your find form to locate the specific widget code. As you know the type and title of your widget, you can easily spot it inside your template codes.

Some examples of widget/gadget codes:

For label widget:

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>

For HTML widget:

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Extras' type='HTML'>

For Link List:

<b:widget id='LinkList1' locked='false' title='My Links' type='LinkList'>

5. Now, let’s assume that you want to make the link list appear only on your blog home page. Locate the code for link list. Just below that specific line, you will see the following line:

<b:includable id='main'>

6. Got it? You need to add the following code just below that line:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>

7. Now you have added an extra code to your template and you need to close it properly. Look some lines below and you will see </b:includable> which is the closing code for <b:includable id=’main’>. Add </b:if> before that line to close the code you have just added in step 6. Now your code must look like this.

</b:if>
</b:includable>

That’s it. Now you can save your template. Before saving, you may look at the following screenshot. Your template code looks similar? If yes, you can now save your template. From now on the contents on your Link List will appear only on your blog home page.

By default, widget or gadget contents on Blogger blogs are displayed in every page of the blog including home page and archives. There is no harm in keeping your sidebar content as it is. But, if you are making money online with your Blogger or Blogspot blog, the situation may be different. For example, you may want to display a text link or a banner ad only on the home page because you got paid for home page only. Why provide your advertisers some extra benefits with sitewide links or ads? Give them what they want and what they paid for! So, use this technique to show links or other Blogger widget/gadget content on homepage only and NOT sitewide!

The font size you choose will be applied to the body of the ad, with the title scaled appropriately. In order to fit the ad text correctly, the actual font size will vary for each format size, font face, and user-specific settings such as browsers and operating systems. In addition, some formats sizes currently have very limited room, so the font size application will be most apparent in cases where the number of ads appearing in your ad units varies automatically in order to maximize your performance.

Google AdSense already have a option to specify desired font faces for ad units. Now, the ability to choose font size will help AdSense publishers in proper integration of ad units with website template or theme. You can select a new font size on an account-wide basis in the Ad Display Preference section of your My Account tab, or on an individual ad unit basis for new and existing ad units.

The default font size for AdSense ad units is ’small’. But, soon Google will change the default font size from ’small’ to ‘medium’. Google’s internal testing showed that slightly larger font size improves performance. Note it done and test it on your own blog or website, with a different font size. After all you are using AdSense to get most out of your ad space. Isn’t it?

“It appears that Microsoft Bing has continued to generate interest from the market for the second consecutive week,” said Mike Hurt, comScore senior vice president. “These early data reflect a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch.”

Bing replaces MSN Live Search. It went fully online on June 3, 2009. Microsoft describes Bing as a ‘Decision Engine’ aimed at helping people make smart buying decisions, plan trips, research health topics or find local businesses. I am still with Google, but I must add that Bing is also not bad. Some search results returned by Bing surprised me and some made me laugh! The image search is good, but news search is nothing when we compare it to Google News. Are you using Bing? What you think about it’s search results? Are they better than Google? Feel free to add your own view.