Yahoo announced the development of Yahoo Messenger 11, the upcoming version of  the popular Instant Messenger for Windows. From the last version 10, Yahoo is making numerous changes to the Messenger features and that made it socially more useful. Yahoo Messenger 11 takes it on step forward. Like in Windows Live Messenger 2011 and Skype 5, Yahoo Messenger 11 has Facebook chat integration, that let you chat with your Facebook friends once the feature has been enabled. Moreover, you can update your status on Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo Pulse at the same time from within the YM11.

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Digsby is multi-platform instant messaging and social networking application which support Google talk ,MSN messenger ,Yahoo messenger ,Facebook ,MySpace ,Twitter etc on single desktop application . Digsby is also capable of checking email messages ,and to post status messages to above mentioned social networks . The advantage is of such an application is that we don’t need to different softwares and websites for opening and checking multiple accounts .Digsby recently introduced an online installation method like Skype , so the user need to internet connection to download and installation this applications . I appreciate this as this mode generates some revenue for them ,and thus make the application free of advertisements .But of course we need an offline installer for backup and at the non availability of an internet connection .

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Twitter is one of the mostly used social networking sitesin the world . The most praised  feature of Twitter is that it can be accessed from anywhere , from web , desktop ,mobile etc . There is something special about  Twitter real time search ,it helps us to be updated with on going events in the web , media ,news and the life of common people .But sometimes its very difficult to sign into Twitter via web and we need to keep the page refreshed to get new tweets . Here comes the use of Twitter desktop applications like TweetDeck and Twhirl, which uses Adobe AIR technology to bring real Twitter experience in desktops .

Intense Twitter users would probably know Twitter desktop clients like Twhirl and Tweetdeck . Since they uses Adobe AIR , they are platform independent and runs on Windows ,Linux and MAC . What you need a runtime environment , Adobe AIR framework pre installed on your machine.

TweetDeck : TweetDeck is the No:1 Twitter desktop client as per the latest usage statics. You can send receive tweets , Shorten URLs , send direct messages ,attach Twitpics , translate tweets and many more . New version has Facebook support that lets you to update both statuses at same time . Tweetdeck resides in taskbar,refreshes and you will get notifications when someone updates their timeline .

Download TweetDeck Twitter desktop client .

Twhirl :
Twhril has a more compact architecture than TweetDeck .
Twhril   supports Friendfeed , Seesmic ,identi.ca and laconi.ca accounts .
Users can update their Facebook , Linkedin , MySpace statuses as a whole .
Record Videos in Seesmic and and share them with Twitter friends .
Spell check Tweets /Updates .
Shorten URLs and Send images .

Download Twhril Twitter desktop client .

Twitter has become one of the major sources of blog traffic. Now many sites are counting the number of Twitter subscribers for the valuation of a blog/website The best part of Twitter is that the number of Addons, software, online services and widgets that makes it possible to access it anywhere, anytime. If you are WordPress Blogger and Twitter fan, Here is a wonderful WordPress Twitter widget that can be embedded into your blog.
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In Todays world of blogging , social bookmarking has a greater importance for getting traffic ,recognition and attention from other Bloggers .I think you might have seen those bookmarking icons below all posts on my Blogger blog . So if someone likes my article , it would be easy for them to add it to their favorite bookmarking website .

Now I will tell you how you can add Social bookmarking below Blogger posts .

Open up your Blogger templates‘ edit HTML and click on expand widget templates. Now find out this section <p><data:post.body/></p>
of code.After this line Just copy and paste this code .

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&#39;font-weight: bold;font-size:12px;color:#444444;&#39;&gt;If You Liked This Post Do Share it with the World!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;<span class='bookmark'><br/><a expr:href='&quot;http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Digg' border='0' src='http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8896/diggku9.png'/></a> <a expr:href='&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/649/stumbleupondh6.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://technorati.com/faves?add=&quot;   data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Technorati' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8656/technoratils5.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9328/deliciousae3.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://reddit.com/submit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9793/redditsw2.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://twitthis.com/twit?url=&quot;   data:post.url   &quot;&amp;title=&quot;   data:post.title' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2369/twitterpg5.png'/></a>

<a expr:href='&quot;http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t=&quot;   data:post.title   &quot;&amp;u=&quot;   data:post.url' rel='external nofollow' target='_blank'><img alt='Del.icio.us' border='0' hspace='12' src='http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8207/yahoowc3.png'/></a>

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If you have related posts widget in Blogger , it would be better if you can place this code just below that section .

Here I am using Digg , Twitter ,Stumbleupon , Yahoo! bookmark , Technorati and Delicous . Remember to change those social bookmarking links with yours .  Now if you want more social bookmarking sites in your Blogger template, fetch corresponding URLs , get come 24*24 PNG icons and add it just above the last (</span>) line .

Twitter and Orkut are two most discussed social networking websites of recent times. While both have the same ideology, they differ in certain aspects. Twitter is one of the first companies that rolled out the update feature. Orkut, Facebook and MySpace have copied the update feature from Twitter. Still, Twitter has a large user base. Major brands now have their Twitter profiles and their share the latest updates on their product trough Twitter. So even if you are an Orkut or Facebook fan, being active on Twitter is a good thing. And now you can do that without leaving your Orkut profile.
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