Time to Get Social-BuddyPress Beta Released

I can’t wait to update my sites with the new code. This is a great project everyone should try out. It allows you to turn WordPress Mu into a social networking site. I have a couple of installs going for clients and they love it.

What do you think about it? Have you had a chance to install it yet? Post your thoughts.

BuddyPress 1.0 Beta 2 Released
January 29, 2009 – 5:00 pm

1.0b2 versions of all components and themes are now available for download.

This release fixes hundreds of bugs found since beta 1, the vast majority found and reported by you, the community. Thank you for all the feedback, bug reports and patches so far.

Google Keyword Tool: Niche Market Research for Free, Article Series

Google Keyword Tool - Article 1

This is the first article in a series of posts on how to use Google Keyword Research tool.

Google had just opened up more features on their keyword research tool.

Here is a snapshot of the keyword “learning”.

Now you can get the searches per day which helps you to understand how popular a term is. In the next few weeks we will be releasing a series of articles on how to use the tool to:

1. Research a New Niche Market
2. Estimate the Value of a Niche Market
3. Sorting the Keywords for Maximum results in your Internet Niche
4. Exporting Keyword Results to Excel for Detailed Market Analysis
5. and whatever else we can think of

For now take a look at this great article from Get Elastic on
The New Google Keyword Tool: How To Apply Keyword Research to Your Site

Niche Content Site Ideas- WikiRage (What’s Hot Now on Wikipedia)

Generating Niche Content Ideas

If you can’t come up with new ideas from your niche sites, take a look at
WikiRage. Here is a description of what they do:

This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. Popular people in the news, the latest fads, and the hottest video games can be quickly identified by monitoring this social phenomenon. Mouse over items for edit statistics.

It is a great spot to see the most updated topics. I’m going hunting for new site ideas tonight. Maybe you should too!

wikirage: What’s hot now on wikipedia