Another great way for people to get to know you is to show your face around the web too. You can combine both methods of letting people know who you are by using Gravatar.

Gravatar is a service that works in coordination with WordPress, Intense Debate, VideoPress and PollDaddy. Gravatar is a development from Automattic, which are the same people behind WordPress itself.

One of the things I really like about Gravatar is that I’m able to login to the Gravatar website with a single login, but setup multiple avatars to be used for multiple email addresses. With this functionality I can login and comment on various blogs and represent different entities with each comment. I blog for a variety of sites and like to be able to comment on sites and represent each of them independently. Gravatar allows me to do this very easily.

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Show Your Face Online with Gravatars

Although the BlackBerry app is in beta and the developers caution users and testers to be careful in using the application, we need more of these types of devices being built for phones and mobile devices.

I do quite a bit of blogging and there’s plenty of times where I’m sitting somewhere without my computer and have a quick post idea. The ability to pull out my phone and start typing away would be terrific! Especially with the ability to take a quick photo or video with your phone and pop that into a post immediately!

The BlackBerry application currently works with WordPress.com and custom hosted WordPress installations. Just what I’d be using for my blogs and numerous other client sites.

Source: WordPress for BlackBerry App Launched in Beta

Image: Image created by Jason Bean from WordPress dashboard and product images from BlackBerry

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We Need More Mobile WordPress Applications

I want to be able to type out some quick blog posts while I’m out and about with my cell phone. My cell phone has a full, slide-out keyboard that I’ve become quite adept at typing on efficiently.

I’m very surprised that the WordPress dashboard doesn’t have a mobile friendly interface. Without that option available I’ve been wondering if perhaps someone hasn’t developed a mobile blogging application. My cell phone is running Windows Mobile 5. Does anyone know if that exists?

If it truly doesn’t exist, why won’t someone please develop it and let me know when it’s ready for me to test.

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Is There a Good Mobile Blogging App for WordPress

Basically, what the Gears does is create a cache of your web applications locally and stores it in a database – therefore speeding up application loading. It runs in background, updating every necessary files needed by your application without sacrificing your browsers productivity.

Wordpress.com now integrated the technology of Gears, enabling bloggers to manage their blog sites faster.

On WordPress.com it is used to store all images and other web page components from the admin area to the user’s PC, speeding up access and reducing unnecessary web traffic.

The speed increase is most noticeable when Internet is slow or on high latency and makes everybody’s blogging experience more enjoyable.

To enable this new feature, click on the “Turbo” link and follow it to Gears’ site to install it in your browser (if not already installed). Then the browser will have to be restarted and after logging back in WordPress, click the “Turbo” link again to give permission to Gears to work on WordPress.com.

[ via Wordpress Blog ]

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Speed Up Wordpress Blogging with Gears

This tool is an extension available to make use of the advance functionalities of a word processing application of OpenOffice.org .

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Sun’s Weblog Publisher

Using a blog template with distinct ad blocks and optimized ad placements will very likely help you increase your Click through rates and affiliate conversions. These customized blog designs are also known as Adsense Ready themes.

18 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings – [doshdosh]

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18 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings

Last week we announced the release of Wordpress 2.2, Getz. This week we introduce 20 awesome themes that will make your Wordpress installation pop. The list was gathered by share.clarklab.net and includes themes that are creative, easy to install (pretty much all Wordpress themes are easy to install) and that are very aesthetically pleasing.

We’ve compiled a list of 20 WordPress themes you might have missed, or that deserve a second look. All the themes are free to download from themes.wordpress.net.

20 Wordpress themes that don’t disappoint – [share.clarklab.net]

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20 Wordpress themes that don’t disappoint

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Wordpress 2.2 released