How to add Yahoo Buzz button to your blog or site

In my last post i mentioned insider of Yahoo Buzz.Like digg or other social bookmarking sites this Yahoo tool can bring an decent amount of traffic to your blog or site.But for this first of all you have to add Yahoo Buzz button to your blog or site.Those who are not sure about the amount of traffic which they can receive from Yahoo buzz should read my last post.And according to many top bloggers this yahoo service should be tried at least.Here is full tutorial how you can add this Yahoo buzz button to your blog.

Step 1. Choose the desired button from Yahoo! Buzz that fitted well with your site design (large button with vote count - Square Button - is highly recommended), then click “Get Code”.

Step 2. If you have selected the Square Button the code will be like this

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js"
badgetype="square">ARTICLEURL</script>

Step 3. Replace the ARTICLEURL with . After replaced, your code will look like this

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js"
badgetype="square"><data:post.url/></script>

Now place this code in your blog or site template accordingly.For blogging platform users : Place this code above or below data:post.body .Hope this works fine for you as it worked fine for me.Still you have any problem,let me know by writing comments

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Yahoo Buzz ! a inside story

Few days ago on aug 26,Yahoo launched a bookmarking service which is very similar to digg called Yahoo Buzz for all users (Previously it was launched for limited users) which will use users’ voting to the most popular content from different websites or blogs across the Internet and bring them to Yahoo’s homepage.

Though Yahoo Buzz works almost like Digg, del.icio.us ( now delicious.com )or Reddit, which allow readers to submit and rate stories they like to share, with the highest-rated stories often getting boatloads of referral traffic.

But still this Buzz from Yahoo has some difference from Digg and other bookmarking sites is that the algorithm that determines what stories get featured on the front page counts not only votes from the users, but also the popularity of related search terms and the number of times that the story has being emailed around.

A story is ranked based on its Buzz Score just like it is measured on digg on the basis of number of diggs. Stories with the highest Buzz Scores may be published on the Yahoo! home page.

Some previous records of Yahoo Buzz !!

• Salon got so excited when they had 1 million unique visitors a day, the most ever to the 12 year old site.
• Huffington Post reported 800,000 unique visitors from a Yahoo-linked story
  
• Smoking Gun, Portfolio.com, Dallas Morning News and Imaginova all reported significant traffic increases after links from the Yahoo home page.
  
• Sugar, Inc. sites have had nearly 1.8 million unique visitors sent from five different Buzz stories on the Yahoo home page

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Chinese gymnast calender

Here is a nice cartoon by Drew Litton on age of Chinese gymnast
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Best use of doors in flood

Put everything on door in flood
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How to Minimize any running application to desktop as thumbnail

What happens when we minimize a running application in our computer system, it goes down to the windows taskbar.While some other software are programmed to minimize down directly to the traybar or system tray like Utorrent client.This helps task bar to remain uncluttered in a situation where lots of applications are running.There are some third party software also that can minimize any desired program to traybar.But if your traybar too is cluttered with these applications and programs,then one possible solution is to close some less required applications, but if you don't want to close any of those running application (its bad !!!!) then then there is a third party freeware miniMIZE of just 349 KB for you.

miniMIZE is a small desktop enhancing application that catches windows that you minimize and puts a thumbnail of the main application window on your desktop so it minimize a running program to desktop as thumbnail.

miniMIZE supports exclusion list to ignore windows and applications that you don’t want to minimize to desktop as thumbnail. It also has hotkeys to cycle thumbnail levels, minimize all windows and show/hide thumbnails.But this won't work on Vista, for windows vista users there is a software Thumbwin which works similar to miniMIZE.

ThumbWin is very much the same as miniMIZE. You can set the software to be excluded from minimizing as thumbnail, supports hotkey, arrangement method and thumbnail size. But one very noticeable feature that only ThumbWin has is the fade-in/out effect. When a running program has been minimized to desktop as thumbnail, moving your mouse over to the thumbnail will make the image fade-in/out.

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