Keeping track of conversations on Twitter can be really tough as the twitter users add @[username] tag and reply to a particular conversation and some times you feel lost when you get these replies as the conversation may been moved to a different topic or is confusing to interpret the conversations when you are working in different time zones.

Our life has been a bit easy with desktop twitter clients like TweetDeck that places the replies in a separate columns. I have used Quotably in the past to track twitter conversations but now Quotably has been officially closed.

So here comes Tweetree that tracks twitter conversations using your twitter login and Tweetree displays a threaded discussion (original post and the subsequent replies) so you don’t miss on to anything. Another impressive feature of Tweetree is that it also pulls in external content like twitpic photos, youtube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post which saves a lot of time.

Also don’t forget to follow me on twitter and also check out what is everyone talking about Tweetree.

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PayPal MassPay feature was originally developed to send payment to one or multiple recipients and the sender pays the transaction fees and not the recipient does not has to pay any PayPal transaction fees. Now as domainer, webmaster of if you are offering designing and development services on the web you are bound to receive payment of your services through PayPal (which remains the preferred and popular payment method).

Mass Payments can be only made through PayPal Premier or Business accounts.

To make a Mass Payment you will have to use the balance of your PayPal funds and you cannot use your Credit card to make the payment.

The current transaction fee for Mass Payment is 2% per payment, with a maximum of $1.00 per payment (so a lot of money can be saved in fees).

Steps to making a Mass Payment:

1. Click on the Mass Pay link at the bottom after you login to your PayPal account.

2.Click on the “Make a Mass Payment” link as shown in the figure below.

3. PayPal needs a tab-delimited file containing your recipients(s) information so that you can send a mass payment.

4. The MassPay format file can be easily created with Notepad. Open Notepad type in the recipient email address [press tab] amount you wish to be transferred [press tab] and then the currency. Once you enter all the details then you can save the file on your desktop for easy reference.

Step 5: Coming back to the Mass Payment screen as in Step #4 we locate the Mass Payment file along with the other details as shown in the figure and click the “Continue” button.

Step 6: Next you will see a confirmation screen to validate the payment details as you have entered through the Mass Payment file. Once you cross-check all the details are perfect. You can click on the “Send Money” link and the payment will be successfully delivered and the recipient will not be charged any transaction fees and you (sender) will have to bear a $1 fee for sending the mass payment.

You will see the Mass Payment is completed almost instantly using the “My Accounts” link.

Is making Mass Payment Safe?

Mass Payment offers no protection for the buyer so make sure that you trust the recipent of the payment as Mass Payments can also not be cancelled.

Saving Money with Mass Pay:

So the next time you are looking for payment for a particular payment by PayPal for various services, domains or anything else make sure that you direct your clients to this PayPal Mass Payment tutorial save money on the transaction fees.

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Popular micro blogging service Twitter has finally come up with Twitter Name Search which allows you to search for a username, first or last name and returns results on the page ranked by the number of followers each user has.

Here is an update that came from the twitter blog post.

You’ll notice that our new name search is much faster, more relevant, and it even has a phonetic similarity algorithm which is basically fancy talk for spell check on names.

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Facebook is arguably one of the best sources of free traffic for your website. So getting your Facebook account linked with your twitter account will automatically update your status as you post a tweet on Twitter.

Traffic from Twitter depends a lot on how you try to promote links to your blog posts. So be careful that you don’t spam.

Following is a small tutorial on how you can link up your twitter account with Facebook account.

Step 1: Login to your Facebook account and Facebook-Twitter can be directly accessed by this page and click on the “Go to Application” link.

Step 2: Click on the “Allow” button and enter your Twitter login details so that Facebook can access your Twitter data. Your Twitter login data is entirely secure with Facebook.

Step 3: After you login you will be greeted with the screen below and click on “Allow Twitter to Update Your Facebook Status” button.

Step 4: Then click on the “Allow Status Updates” and you are done syncing your status updates from Twitter. You can also edit the application settings from the same page.

So once the set up is done, all the tweets you post will be sent to your friends on Facebook and you will be surprised to get a lot of replies back too!

You can take the Facebook-Twitter application a step further by importing your blog posts on Facebook which will appear along with notes on your Facebook profile page.

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Mac Wordpress theme is free 3 column wordpress theme, supports widgets and also allows you to change the header image to cater to diffrent products from the Apple Mac family. The Mac Wordpress theme was designed keeping in keeping in mind the large number of Apple users and also website owners looking to develop online stores using the PhpBay & PhpZon scripts to pull listings from sites like Ebay.

The theme has been be upgraded to support Wordpress 2.7

Mac Wordpress theme demo | Download the theme

Also since the theme is distributed for free request you to please do not remove the footer links of the theme.

Please let me know if you have any questions, bugs and suggestions to improve the theme.

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Have you ever thought of what people are talking about you or your brand on Twitter or finding popular trends on Twitter which can be invaluable. There is a lot of fun tracking the hottest trends and conversations on Twitter along with Google Trends or explore some more advanced features with Google Insights.

How to track Keywords and conversations with Twitter ?

There are a lot of ways to track conversations, trends and what people are talking about with websites listed below

1. TwitScoop: TwitScoop tracks the most popular keywords on twitter and also has a search feature. It also displays the latest tweets for that term. You also get a graphical representation of the rise and the fall in the trends for that particular keyword versus time.

2. TweetScan: TweetScan is also a cool tool which displays all the recent conversations for the particular key-phrase.

3. Twitter100: Twitter100 is for tracking conversations when you have a lot of followers and displays their tweets all in one page for your 100 followers also comes in with a refresh rate of 3 mins.

4. Quotably: Quotably is my favorite tool to follow/reply to all the conversations and trust me it is better than desktop clients like TweetDeck and twhirl.

I also recommend that you check twitag which is a #tag finder for twitter and TwitterTroll which happens to be a real time twitter search engine.

Please let me know If I have missed any listing any other tools and share them in your comments.

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Wordpress is obviously the most popular open source, powerful (in terms of on-page SEO, plugins, themes and the wide range of options) and secure blogging platform with updates almost every month now.

This blog post how you can extend the capabilities of wordpress blogging platform rather than using it simply as a blog. At the time of this writing WordPress blogs power 0.8% of the web..

1. Twitter Clone: MicroBlogging is really taking off with almost every one posting on twitter with the 140 characters tweet limit. So If you want to try something similar to twitter on wordpress you can check the twitter wordpress clone demo and you can download the twitter theme from here and since the theme comes with Gravatar and RSS support you will definitely enjoy your twittering activity.

2. Wordpress as CMS: The second most popular usage of WordPress after blogging is using WordPress as a full-featured CMS. Web designers, Internet marketers and small business owners regularly use WordPress as a content management system (CMS) and use the static pages feature to build and publish their content online. Here are examples of 10 popular sites using wordpress as a CMS.

3. Video Trailer site: Wordpress can be effectively tweaked with Video Flick wordpress theme to be a fully featured video trailer site with use of Ajax.

4. Article Directory: Wordpres can also be used as an article directory with the wordpress article directory plugin and you can have the demo here. The same theme can also be extended to a press release site.

5. Review Sites: We all know review style always have better conversions and are loved by affiliate marketers. Dan Grossman has come with a nice review plugin for wordpress which a lot of features (priced at $97.00 for single site licence)

6. CSS showcase gallery: You can also create your own CSS gallery with free CSS gallery wordpress theme by Shabu or take a look at premium option at Gabfire gallery theme and with so many gorgeous wordpress CSS galeries online you will never run out of ideas.

7. PopURLs Clone: PopURLs displays latest content from popular websites like Digg, Propeller, flickr etc and also offer customization of content that is displayed on homepage. SimplePie and One news theme are really cool plugins to clone PopURLs on the wordpress platform.

Now I have included some of the popular options like using wordpress as a magazine based style, photo blog, video blog, web chat system and also wordpress resume site or even a portfolio site.

Please share your ideas in the comments.

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Google has come with their vintage Google’s 2001 search index as part of their 10th Google’s birthday celebrations with the index size of 1.3 million URL’s in 2001.

Google came out with a post on how to use their old archive, The fun really starts when you try some of really popular search queries on the older archive. The following list will make you happy

1. Firefox : The world’s most popular term did not existed back in 2001.

2. Youtube : Youtube was unknown to Google back in 2001.

3. buy links : The #1 ranking site for the term buy links is some Vaccum tubes selling site and I am sure Matt Cutts would be have really enjoyed it.

4. Matt Cutts : It does not point to mattcutts.com. I am sure that Matt Cutts joined Google some time later.

5. Ipod : Ipod was unknown as music player

Do let me know If you come up with more cool search queries with the 2001 Google index. I hope they keep up the old index for some more time as it is lot of fun.

Update: Google 2001 search index is no longer online & has been removed by Google.

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So Google Labs India has done a great job in terms of creativity to come with a new application Google SMS channels to keep you updated on wide variety of topics ranging from Business, Entertainment, Jobs to Technology via SMS.

So the first step that you need to do is to select a nickname and enter your mobile number so that the verification code can be sent you to your mobile phone which you need to enter on the Google SMS Channels page.

Update: I am on Vodafone A.P mobile network and got their SMS in 5 seconds and registration process was real fast and easy. Once you are registered you can signup to get updated on channels (topics) that intrest you.

I am a tech lover so in no time I subscribed to GoogleNews Technology and Digital Inspiration channels. You can learn more on Google SMS channels with their large FAQ section or you can create your own channel and provide updates made on your blog or website.

I also strongly suggest you to visit Google Labs page to brows through more cool applications, guys at Google love to create.

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