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First and foremost I’d Like to say that this is my first shot of even messing with Wordpress plugin’s. I wanted to add My new Bookmarking site www.upchuckr.com into Word-press. I have been using the ‘ Slashdigglicious’ plug-in for the longest time and wanted to add upchuckr.com into it. Much respect goes to the original author http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/15/slashdigglicious/ for this great plug-in. It is the same as it was before except now UpCHUCKR is listed. Upchuckr.com is a bookmarking site like del.icio.us except it is Do Follow. When ever you add a link to my site you will receive a Google Back-link. When you select to add your site to UpChuckr the fields are already populated. Even the Tag’s I do not know how I did it but I did it!. Anyhow installation is easy

• Download the zip file.
• Unzip it into wp-content/plugins (or upload the upchuckrlicious.php file into the wp-content/plugins directory on your web server).

Look for “Upchuckrlicious” in the WordPress “Plugins” control panel and activate it.
I hope that you Enjoy this pluggin. you can see it in Action right here on Astawerks.net.

You can download the plugin here until it gets published on wordpress.org

I am now ready to let everyone know about the next big thing. I launched our new Social Bookmarking site today. I decided to name it Upchuckr.com. I would have preferred upchucker.com but all the good domains are all parked. That is one thing that really pisses me off!. Any how off the bat what makes this site different is that it is DoFollow, meaning that each bookmark that you add will count as a backlink in Google’s eyes.

The Site was created using the Scuttle Script. It is basically a open source version of Del.icio.us. You can export all of your existing bookmarks into an .XML file and import them into Upchuckr. To import bookmarks from your del.icio.us account, go to http://del.icio.us/api/posts/all, log in using your del.icio.us user-name and password, and save the XML file to your computer. Thus all of your bookmarks will not be Do-Follow. Once you register at Upchuckr.com you can also Export your bookmarks to save them or insert them to Del.

You can add bookmarks the same way as with Del either by going directly to the site or using the FireFox plug-in. To use the FireFox plug-in with Upchuckr.com you will need to first download it here . After you have downloaded the plug-in firefox will need to be restarted. As soon as it comes back up goto

Tools -> add_on’s –> scuttle –> options –> then you will add www.Upchuckr.com .

To Save the pages to Upchuckr.com Right click on the page that you will want saved and select ” Scuttle this page”.

You can also Added pages using Bookmarklets.  To use this feature you must login to your account - > select Add a bookmark –> On that page you will find ” bookmarklets “  –> Drag and drop the bookmarklets to your Firefox toolbar  –>  And thats it!.

Upchuckr.com allows you to specify one of three types of security settings for each bookmark in your collection — public, private, or “shared with watch-list.” Public bookmarks are available to anyone, including guests that are not registered with Scuttle. If you set a bookmark status to shared with watchlist, it will be available to registered users, but not to unauthorized users. Finally, private bookmarks are available only to you. Each security setting has its own color code, which makes it easy to identify a bookmark’s status.

Like del.icio.us, Upchuckr exports RSS feeds, so you can keep an eye on other users’ public bookmarks. However,Upchuckr takes the idea of sharing bookmarks even further. Using the Watchlist feature, users can view each other’s public bookmark listings, and add interesting bookmarks in the watchlist to your own bookmark collection by simply clicking on the Copy link. To add a user to your watchlist, point the browser to http://www.upchuckr.com/bookmarks.php/username, where username is the user’s Upchuckr name, then click on the Add to Watchlist link on the sidebar.

Upchuckr has several other features you won’t find in del.icio.us. All tags in Upchuckr are presented as a tag cloud, making it easier to locate the most popular tags. The tags can be sorted either alphabetically or by popularity. The same goes for bookmarks: you can sort them by date, title, or URL.

Upchuckr also supports the related tags feature that allows you to view bookmarks with multiple tags. And when you add a bookmark containing a link to an audio file in MP3 or Ogg format, Upchuckr places a tiny player icon next to it, and you can play the file without leaving Upchuckr.

As you can see the site is pretty much bare at the moment, not many bookmarks yet, no ads, But not to worry you will hear and see alot more of This site very much in the near future!.

Again the site can be found at WWW.UPCHUCKR.COM

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas yesterday, I know that I did and spend a boat load of money at the same-time!.

During my two days of rest I searched my brain for more ideas of websites to create. I decided to start a social bookmarking site. The reason for this is because they are so popular and helpful and always in demand. I already registered the domain name for it and got hosting how every I will not announce it until it goes live. Nothing is worse then an under construction sign.

Knowing how I am you know that all links on this site are going to be DO-Follow. I do not believe in that no follow Crap!. So Stay tuned here on this blog for further updates and news on the progress.

Hey All its about that time to head out of time and spend town with family again. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah and Happy New Year from the entire Staff at Astawerks.

I ran across some pretty interesting information released by Digital Footprints. Digital footprints is a project from Pew Internet and American Life Product. They have released findings this week which show that 47% of Internet users have Google their name to see exactly what is out there about them. This has rose 22% percent since 2002. Now I understand that people are worried about their security and their information that is online but why a study? Why do this non-profit organizations spend so many man hours researching such irrelevant stuff?.

We already know that people search their names online each day, you do not have to get a huge grant from the government to tell us this!

As I went on to read a bit more I found some of this information

Fully 60% of internet users say they are not worried about how much information is available about them online.
Similarly, the majority of online adults (61%) do not feel compelled to limit the amount of information that can be found about them online. Just 38% say they have taken steps to limit the amount of online information that is available about them.
Online adults can be divided into four categories based on their level of concern about their online information and whether or not they take steps to limit their online footprint:

• Confident Creatives are the smallest of the four groups, comprising 17% of online adults. They say they do not worry about the availability of their online data, and actively upload content, but still take steps to limit their personal information.

• The Concerned and Careful fret about the personal information available about them online and take steps to proactively limit their own online data. One in five online adults (21%) fall into this category.

• Despite being anxious about how much information is available about them, members of the Worried by the Wayside group do not actively limit their online information. This group contains 18% of online adults.

• The Unfazed and Inactive group is the largest of the four groups—43% of online adults fall into this category. They neither worry about their personal information nor take steps to limit the amount of information that can be found out about them online. Digital Footprints

The rest was pretty much blah, blah stuff that we already know, I can’t believe how long this PDF is and how many facts are listed. After reading this I felt the same was that I feel when a solicitor calls be on the phone asking me the dumbest questions. I probably would have, no excuse me I would have hung up on them if they called me!