Category — social bookmarking

If you have a wordpress blog and have gotten to the front page of digg, you may have seen the following error message:

This is usually caused by a large amount of traffic that is overloading your database (because each page that is loaded requires a query or multiple queries).

A great way to not only improve the speed of your entire blog, but help prevent the above error from occuring is to install a plugin called WP-Cache.

Installing

Installing is pretty easy and straight forward:

1. Upload to your plugins folder, usually
   wp-content/plugins/

   and unzip the file, it will create a

   wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/

   directory.

2. If you have Gzip Compression enabled turn it off (in Options->Reading).
3. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
4. Go to “Options” administration menu, select “WP-Cache” from the submenu, the plugin will try to autoconfigure everything. The plugin will try to autoconfigure everything and guide you through the process. In case of failure –normally due to the lack of files’ privilegies– it tell you and give the instructions to solve the problems.
5. A way to make things even faster is to enable gzip compression for wp-cache. It can done by doing the following: (within wp-cache-phase1.php) add the following line: if ( extension_loaded(’zlib’) ) ob_start(’ob_gzhandler’); before this line: foreach ($meta->headers as $header) {

The wp-cache wordpress plugin can be downloaded here

I have also included the alexa rankings of each site, to give you a general idea on its popularity.

Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more popular. They allow you to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browser.

I have compiled a list of 15 Social Bookmarking websites that you can use for submitting your own bookmarks.

1) bookmarksync – http://bookmarksync.com/

2) Delicious – http://www.Delicious.com

3) digg – http://www.digg.com

4) Diigo – http://www.diigo.com

5) Faves.com - http://www. faves.com

6) givealink.org - http://givealink.org/

Note: GiveALink is a social bookmarking site where people can donate their bookmarks to the Web community and to science. As an ongoing academic research project, our goal is to analyze bookmark files to build new Web mining techniques including new ways to search, recommend, personalize, and visualize the Web.

7) linkwad.com – http://linkwad.com/

8 ) yahoo bookmarks – http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/

Note: This is yahoo’s replacement for “yahoo my web”, which will be shutdown on March 19th, 2009.

9) Mister wong - http://www.mister-wong.com/

10) propeller.com – http://www.Propeller.com

11) stumpedia.com – http://www.stumpedia.com/

Note: Stumpedia is a social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. Stumpedia does not depend on bots, algorithms, or company insiders to make decisions on the relevance and ranking of search results.

12) Microsoft live favorites – http://favorites.live.com/

Note: Bookmarking interface only works with IE.

13) dzone – http://www.dzone.com

Note: Accepts only technology related links.

14) fuzzfizz – http://www.fuzzfizz.com/

15) linkroll – http://www.linkroll.com