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Jabbify: Unobtrusive Chat Plugin for Websites

There are lots of chat client widgets/plugins for blogs and websites. Most bloggers do not use chat widgets mainly because it reduces commenting on articles and it consumes sidebar space. For sites or blogs which offers a service or a product, a chat widget is a handy tool to have.

Jabbify offers a widget that you can place on your blogs/websites which will not consume space from your site. It can sit on the bottom part of the browser so that it will not interfere with your content or waste sidebar space. The user has the power to turn it off or pop it out in a different window. What I like about Jabbify is that a user can register his name and the URL of his/her site in the chat widget. The user’s name will link to the URL he/she entered and will be available in the conversations. This way, the owner and other visitors of the site can check out the participant’s respective blogs or sites. It’s pretty much like a comment system on blogs. The only difference is that Jabbify is live.

Setting up the plugin is very easy. You can either get the java script tag which works on any site or if you are using a blogging platform like WordPress or Blogger, there is a quick how-to guide that will help you setup Jabbify easily on your blogs. After installing the plugin, all that’s left to do is to use your Jabbify to register your website.

If you are looking for an unobtrusive chat plugin for your blogs, Jabbify is worth a try. Just head over to their site and sign up.

Tags: blogger, Chat, jabbify, Plugin, wordpress

Free WordPress Blog with Adsense from IdeaFry

WordPress.com is a great free blog platform, the reason why most bloggers still prefer to use Blogspot as their free blog platform is mainly because of its monetization capabilities. The free WordPress.com blog prohibits the placement of ads. You have to acquire the hosted version from WordPress.org if you want to maximize the profits and fully customize your blog (Highly Recommended). The new blogging service that I’m going to introduce to you lets you use a free WordPress platform and make some money from Google ads.

IdeaFry is a free blog service which uses WordPress as its blogging platform. Registration is easy and like blogger, you will be given your own subdomain (e.g yourname.ideafry.com). You can choose different free themes and customize them like you do in free WP blogs. If you choose to use IdeaFry as your new blog service, you can easily import content from other blogging platforms such as Typepad, Blogger, WordPress.com, LiveJournal and many others. The selling feature of IdeaFry is the Adsense integration. You can easily monetize your blog by placing your Adsense publisher key. Although that it would probably mean that you will be sharing your profits with IdeaFry (like in blogger) it’s still a great deal for a free service which “promises” a 99.9% uptime. IdeaFry is basically WordPress.com with a different domain and Adsense integration. (Still no javascripts)

IdeaFry will give you a free space of 10MB for uploaded files. This means that if you’re going to use the service, you should probably host your images elsewhere. I’m not sure if there is a bandwidth limit for using the service. It would be safe to assume that there is none, because if there is actually a bandwidth limit, then it would probably be better to stick to blogger.

If you are a blogger who enjoys using WordPress as your blog platform and want to equip it with Adsense, IdeaFry would be a great place to start.

Tags: adsense, blogger, ideafry, typepad, wordpress, wordpress.com, wordpress.org