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Google Acquires reCAPTCHA

You know those boxes with funky looking letters that are becoming increasingly common on website registration forms, or on Facebook Pages when you want to post an update? They’re called captchas and they’re used primarily to deter spammers and bots.

One of the biggest providers of the technology is a company called reCAPTCHA, and now, Google owns them. The search giant just announced on their blog that they’re buying reCAPTCHA, which is used on more than 100,000 websites worldwide.

Why exactly does Google want to own this technology? For starters, reCAPTCHA has a unique solution. As Google describes:

“But there’s a twist — the words in many of the CAPTCHAs provided by reCAPTCHA come from scanned archival newspapers and old books. Computers find it hard to recognize these words because the ink and paper have degraded over time, but by typing them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds teach computers to read the scanned text.”

via http://mashable.com/2009/09/16/google-acquires-recaptcha/

Myna: Garage Band in Your Web Browser

Aviary is already well-established as an online image editing suite, but today the company is expanding its creative reach and bringing multi-track audio editing to the cloud.

The service, called Myna, is sort of like Garage Band in your web browser. You can import audio directly into it, record a track into the application, or use clips from one of Aviary’s provided clip libraries.

All audio effects are non-destructive and you can automate fades and pans, modify gain over time, loop, stretch and reverse audio clips and more. Once you’ve got your track just the way you want it, you can mixdown to your desktop or publish directly to your Aviary account.

via http://mashable.com/2009/09/16/aviary-myna/

Google Launches Video Chat for iGoogle

In November 2008, Google added video chat to Gmail, allowing you to video chat with other Gmail users after downloading a small plugin. Now Google is extending its video ambitions, launching video chat for the iGoogle homepage.

What’s the advantage of having video chat on your personalized homepage? The main benefit is that you can now speak to friends who don’t use Gmail (although they still require a generic Google account). You’ll also need to download a plugin to make it work.

via http://mashable.com/2009/08/22/igoogle-video-chat/

The 10 Essential Social Media Stories This Week

From blogger unmaskings to social media bans, it’s been an interesting week in the social realm.

We also brought you a wealth of resources to help you do more online, from spicing up your GMail signature to combating annoying Facebook notifications.

Without further ado, here are the top 10 social media stories this week.

via http://mashable.com/2009/08/22/social-media-week/

Make your NGO – Non-profit site more sociable

Working with wordpress makes it very easy to make your website more sociable. Here is list with the best sociable plugins availible today for wordpress.

  1. Digg This – Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story.When a digg is first recognized an email is sent to the site’s admin and the button appears on the site.
  2. ShareThis – Is very known sharing service with its green ShareThis icon put to your blog. People can quickly submit your articles to the most popular social sites or just email them to their friends.
  3. Sociable– Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. You can design the css, images and decide wich social networks you link to.
  4. LifeStream –Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog. Out of the box, Lifestream is just streams in RSS/Atom feeds and prettying them up, but deep down it’s a very flexible platform allowing developers to integrate any kind of activity they desire..
  5. Meet Your Commenters – When someone comments on your blog and writes a comment with his/her URL, is leaving more information than you think. This wordpress plugin displays web pages and profiles of those users in the dashboard, so you can add them as friends if you are in the same social network. You will be able to know the profiles of your visitors in social networks like flickr, twitter, facebook,….
  6. SocialBoaster – fun little script that’ll aggregate your Digg, Twitter and Del.icio.us activity and post it to your WordPress blog. It uses the WordPress cron system and can be configured to search for updates by the hour or on a daily basis. SocialBoaster works by grabbing the contents of your Twitter Tweets, and Digg/Del.icio.us bookmarks and creating posts for them on your blog. SocialBoaster is designed to be unobstrusive. As such, each post SocialBoaster makes will be given a metadata value in order to make SocialBoaster posts easily distinguishable from regular blog posts.
  7. DandyID Services – DandyID is a free service that enables you to connect, manage, and share all of your online identities from a single location. With approximately 330 social networks supported, the DandyID Services plugin is one of the most extensive available.
  8. TweetMe is a simple WordPress Plugin that posts a tweet to Twitter when you publish a blog post. You decide what actually gets posted to your Twitter feed. The link to the post is shortened to around 18 characters using the bit.ly service.
  9. Twittertools – A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.

Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins for NGO’s and Non-profits

We have already suggested that you should consider WordPress as CMS system for your NGO or Non-profit organization.  The wordpress core is still missing many things that can make your site look better and work better for your NGO or non-profit organization.  Here is list of plug-ins that you can use to adopt WordPress to your needs.

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Why ngo’s and non-profit organizations should consider wordpress as cms

As blogging tool wordpress needs no introduction, it is one of the biggest blogger tool around, but is system that is suitable for NGO’s and non-profit organizations it is may be not as obvious as choice of content management system (CMS).
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Still the system is probably one of the best systems available for any NGO or non-profit as cms system.

  1. The system is flexible and versatile, there are thousands of plug-ins available and almost any idea you have for adaptation some one has already thought about it and created a plug-in for it.
  2. It is very common system and many bloggers are already familiar with it.
  3. It is very user friendly, and members do not need long time to adapt and learn how to use it. Unlike many CMS system that require very long adaptation period.
  4. It is very easy to install, it requires minimum programming knowledge, you still have to know how to ftp (move) the files to your server and setup mysql (usually very simple – if you do not know hot to do it ask your host)
  5. Many hosts offer very simple setup via the control panel.  Just few clicks and the system is ready.
  6. You can easily find free themes, that are simple to install and look great.  Every day there are coming new themes.
  7. The system is free, it is stable and it is secure.  Updates are readily available and the system and plug-in can be updated via simple clicks with in the WordPress system.
  8. WordPress has huge community and many indiviuals that are willing to help you for free if you get in to any trouble.

Cool new wordpress theme

Wordpress theme  - crowdy

Wordpress theme - crowdy

Crowdy is elegant design free premium WordPress theme suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel.

Features:

  • Admin Options
  • Featured Video
  • Animated drop down menu
  • 125×125 pixels adbox ready (easy editable from admin options)
  • 468×60 pixels Header Banner ready (easy editable from admin options)
  • Two columns
  • Gravatar on Comments
  • Twitter Ready
  • Social Networks sharing. No plugin required
  • Compatible with latest WordPress versions
  • Widgets Ready
  • SEO Optimized
  • Fixed width
  • Logo .PSD file and font files are included in theme folder.
  • Tested and compatible with all major browsers: IE, FF, Safari

Admin Options Features:

  • Featured Video
  • Logo image
  • Twitter
  • Header 468×60 pixels banner code
  • 125×125 pixels banners
  • Sidebar Ads/Banners
  • Header and Footer script codes

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CMS systems for NGO’s

A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster. The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site. The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.

Read more on the cms page

New version of WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

WordPress has just updated the system and is now available in new version 2.8.4 as they have updated security issues.

To download and get further information check here