Update: Twitter Apps and You

What are applications?

There are over 250,000 applications built using the Twitter API. To use most applications, you first authorize the application to access your Twitter account, after which you can use it to read and post Tweets, discover new users and more. Applications come in many varieties, including desktop applications likeTweetDeck, Seesmic, or EchoFon, websites such as TweetMeme, fflick, orTopsy, or mobile applications such as Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Blackberry, or Foursquare.

Update 1: New authorization rules for applications

Starting August 31, all applications will be required to use “OAuth” to access your Twitter account.

What's OAuth?

• OAuth is a technology that enables applications to access Twitter on your behalf with your approval without asking you directly for your password.
• Desktop and mobile applications may still ask for your password once, but after that request, they are required to use OAuth in order to access your timeline or allow you to tweet.

What does this mean for me?

• Applications are no longer allowed to store your password.
• If you change your password, the applications will continue to work.
• Some applications you have been using may require you to reauthorize them or may stop functioning at the time of this change.
• All applications you have authorized will be listed athttp://twitter.com/settings/connections.
• You can revoke access to any application at any time from the list.

Update 2: t.co URL wrapping

In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. Wrapped links are displayed in a way that is easier to read, with the actual domain and part of the URL showing, so that you know what you are clicking on. When you click on a wrapped link, your request will pass through the Twitter service to check if the destination site is known to contain malware, and we then will forward you on to the destination URL. All of that should happen in an instant.

You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service; we expect to roll this out to all users by the end of the year. When this happens, all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL.

What does this mean for me?

• A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed to web or application users as amazon.com/Delivering- or as the whole URL or page title.
• You will start seeing links in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened links and lets you know where each link will take you.
• When you click on these links from Twitter.com or a Twitter application, Twitter will log that click. We hope to use this data to provide better and more relevant content to you over time.

How To Enable Wild Card DNS Service For A Domian On cPanel server?

In many cases we require to enable wild card DNS service for the domain. These are the steps to accomplish it for cPanel server:

1) Login into WHM.
2) Click On Edit DNS Zone.
3) Choose domain to edit and click on edit button.
4) Add new record entry as under:

• TTL 14400
• Record Type: A [Domain IP address]
• Record Data: *

5) Click on submit to add the record in DNS file.

Now, we need to modify httpd.conf file from the server end.

1) Login into SSH as root.
2) go to the httpd.conf file. It should be located at:
etc/httpd.conf

3) now edit this with online text editor. [I have used vi editor]
vi httpd.conf

4) Find your domain entry like:

ServerAlias yourdomain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/yourdoma/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/yourdomain.com-bytes_log
ServerName www.yourdomain.com
User yourdoma
Group yourdoma
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/yourdomain.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/yourdoma/public_html/cgi-bin/

On the line:
ServerAlias yourdomain.com

Change to:
ServerAlias: *.yourdomain.com yourdomain.com

5) Save the file and exit.
[command: CTRL +:wq]

6) Restart the Apache web server by executing this command:
# service httpd restart

That’s it!

Thanks,

Shane G.
Accuwebhosting.com

Make Money Online' Using Blogs For Free

Learning how to make money online isn't always as easy as some might think. In reality if you're going to make money online than you're going to have to put some hard work into it at least for the first couple of months. Then you can expect to begin to make money online.
First things first you need a website. The cheapest way to get a website up and running is actually setting up a blog. Blogs seem to be one of the biggest things right now on the internet and are a great way to make money online.
The best blog site to sign up with would be Blogger.com. You can register for free and Blogger offers many tools and applications for making your site attractive and stylish. Most of all blogger is owned by Google so you know right there if you want to make money online with a blog than go with Blogger.com.
Making and using blogs is the key for you in order to make money online. After you go and register with Blogger you than need to decide what your niche is going to be and what you're going to write about. For example in this article here I'm writing about how to make money online. This article could also be about Blogger since I mentioned them quite a bit as well.
A key on how to make money online is to find your niche and write about it everyday in your blog. In the beginning you should try to right several articles a day with a minimum of three. It's a lot of work but remember that you're trying to get your site to the first page of whatever your niche is about so you're going to have to put in the time.
Putting your keywords in your article like for example make money online is crucial to having Google rank your page well. In this article I'm using the phrase make money online repeatedly. This is what you need to do in order to get Google to like your page.
Where should you put your keywords. Well you definitely want your keywords in your title. So here in my title I need to make sure that I put make money online in the title. I also should try to get the keywords within the first three to four words in the title. You then want to have a sub title and put your make money online keywords in there at least twice.
Then you want to have your body with your keyword mentioned several times and maybe even a couple of times in bold. And then last put your make money online keyword or whatever your real keyword will be in your last sentence. As A hole you want to have as much as 5% of your article or blog mentioning your keyword.
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