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While privacy-savy users might think about ways to remove their data from social net­works like Face­book, the aver­age geek is much more wor­ried about los­ing such data against his will. Enter Social­Safe, a handy tool which backs up all your Face­book data on your local com­puter. Eas­ier said than done you might think — but the joint ven­ture beween British online experts iBun­dle and 1minus1 does a nice job for a very low price.

But why would you want to backup your Face­book data at all? There are many good rea­sons, the most impor­tant being that one day your account just might dis­abled. Hap­pens a lot these days, some­times because users vio­late the TOS, some­times because some algo­rithm trig­gers a false alarm. Social­Safe is an Adobe Air based client that stores Face­book data offline and tracks changes between sin­gle “snap­shots”. After the instal­la­tion and the ini­tial authen­ti­ca­tion the pro­gram gen­er­ates a snap­shot of one’s cur­rent con­tacts, wall, photo albums and pro­file infor­ma­tion. Social­Safe ain’t free, but it’s still one of the best things in social media life, and €2,48 for a two-computer license def­i­nitely is a steal. This video explains the basics (actu­ally, this cov­ers pretty much every­thing that can be said about this sim­ple yet help­full app):

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Word­Press offers a fas­ci­nat­ingly wide range of options: thanks to the power and the cre­ativ­ity of the open source com­mu­nity, the world’s most pop­u­lar CMS has devel­oped from a “blog-only” prod­uct into a mul­ti­fac­eted plat­form. Hun­dreds of plu­g­ins are wait­ing to cater almost every web publisher’s needs. These days, two new plu­g­ins take Word­Press to the next level by inte­grated elab­o­rate social net­work fea­tures. Bud­dy­Press is now avail­able at ver­sion 1.2 which plays along well with stan­dard WP-installations; the pre­vi­ous ver­sion required WP multi­user edi­tion. And then there’s Min­gle, a new bril­liant exten­sion by Blair Williams, author of the (genius!) Pret­tyLink plugin.

Even though both plu­g­ins offer sim­i­lar func­tion­al­i­ties, they take a com­pletely dif­fer­ent approach at turn­ing Word­Press into a social net­work. While Bud­dy­Press aims at run­ning a stand-alone social net­work site, Min­gle extends the com­mu­nity capa­bil­i­ties of nay exist­ing blog. I installed it here on datadirt yes­ter­day. Curi­ous for a test-drive? Just click the new link Pro­file in the main menu! In the fol­low­ing post­ing I’ll explain why extend­ing a blog with social net­work fea­tures is gen­er­ally a smart idea. Read the rest of this entry »

Word­Press 2.9 is still quite fresh, but today the team released a new ver­sion includ­ing some minor bug fixes. Word­Press 2.9.1 fixes scheduling-errors which occurred on some hosts. The update can either be trig­gered via the admin or you can upload the files via ftp, no data­base update nec­es­sary this time.

But there’s another plugin-related issue: since the upgrade to 2.9, many Word­Press blog­gers miss Sim­ple Tags: the tag man­age­ment plu­gin just stopped to work, but worry not: it’s just a hard-coded ver­sion check, a sim­ple hack makes the plu­gin work again. Read the rest of this entry »

I started using Fast Blogfinder almost exactly one year ago. And I’ve used this genius dofollow-recherche tool quite intensely as no other SEO soft­ware helps me gen­er­ate hi-quality dofol­low links that fast. (Check my in-depth review). Auto­mated com­ment­ing sys­tem are noth­ing but spam tools — at best, they don’t dam­age your Google rank­ing. FBL how­ever does not post any com­ments, but it’s an effec­tive tool to iden­tify related post­ings in your top­i­cal niche, but the com­ment­ing itself is done man­u­ally. The new ver­sion 3.0 will be avail­able on 10th of Decem­ber and I got some first-hand details. Read the rest of this entry »

Wouldn’t it be annoy­ing to log in to every new hour? Maybe even with dif­fer­ent pass­words in dif­fer­ent loca­tions — for secu­rity rea­sons? Lucky you don’t have to con­stantly fill out forms in real life, but these days every heavy user of social media has got­ten used to mul­ti­ple reg­is­tra­tions and an immense load of pass­words. But Fire­fox is going to change that by estab­lish­ing the browser as the “trusted agent” when it comes to han­dling your online iden­tity. Read the rest of this entry »

The orange-blue fox is our favorite browser, no doubt — and one of the rea­sons is the incred­i­ble num­ber of plug-ins avail­able. In FF-lingo, they’re called “exten­sions” and they cater vir­tu­ally every need: whether it’s a web­mas­ter check­ing his page for errors, a SEO look­ing for those juicy follow-Links or Mr. aver­age surfer look­ing for more com­fort: almost every need is catered. Recently, Mac­Sto­ries has com­piled an inter­est­ing post­ings that saves power-foxers a lot of time. Read the rest of this entry »

Build­ing back­links to lever­age your online pres­ence can be a very tedious task — but it doesn’t have to be: thanks to the social web, there are lit­er­ally thou­sands of blogs that allow follow-links in their com­ments. No mat­ter which niche you’re work­ing on, there’s always a cou­ple of match­ing blogs where one gets strong, free back­links sim­ply for leav­ing a com­ment. But the chal­lenge lies in find­ing strong deeplinks with nofol­low turned off, and that’s where Fast Blog Finder comes in: this bril­liant piece of soft­ware does auto­mated key­word searches for blogs or other sites which allow com­ments. The results are grouped into fol­low– and nofollow-Blogs, all the impor­tant para­me­ters like Google Pager­ank and the num­ber of out­go­ing links are pre­sented in a very use­ful way. Read the rest of this entry »