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Rajesh has a great post that talks about Twitter - how it works and what’s special about it, innovative uses for Twitter and how it can be useful to corporates.   Oh, and it will certainly help bloggers reach out to other bloggers and readers!

Just for Fun – a random update from me, late evening, sometime last week “Sindhi Kadhi + Rice = Heaven” generated immediate response from not just Twitter but also Facebook friends (my status updates are linked to my Tweets and get automatically updated every time I write anything on Twitter). People were writing in from Bangalore, Delhi, Switzerland asking me to share the recipe, which I did over a few dozen Tweets. Soon more people joined the conversation over private messages, Facebook and email. Lots of thank you messages followed and many promised to try the recipe. A couple of them have, in fact, already done so – yes, it was fun and I might just do it again sometime. Not to be tried recklessly for fears of being termed spammer.

If you’re one of those people bitten by the Twitter-bug, Aalaap’s post on mating Gtalk and Twitter, is a must-read for you.

Now enjoy your Twitter followers’ shock and awe as your Google Talk status messages get pumped (piped? fed?) into Twitter automagically.

WordPress is a powerful blogging engine and most of the time, works right out of the box. But what should you do if you want more? Taruns lists a few must-do things after you first install WordPress that will extend its capabilities [hat tip: Sheila].

Self-styled blog marketing guru Gaurav gives us a quick round-up of the players on social media marketing scene .

The Indian players offering social media marketing services can broadly be divided into three categories –

- Digital advertising agencies offering social media marketing services with a focus on virals, social network apps, social media campaigns etc.

- Public relations agencies/ practitioners offering social media services with a focus on online reputation monitoring and social media outreach etc.

- Prominent bloggers offering, basically, corporate blogging consulting services and workshops.

Are you thinking of switching to self-hosted WordPress on your own website?  Would you like to test-drive it on your PC first to see how it works? Head over to Tarun’s blog then - he has step-by-step instructions for you!

Considering the ubiquity of accessing the Internet on your mobile, it is imperative to create a mobile-friendly version of your blog.

Amit Agarwal offers a ten-second solution with the help of Google Reader. Chetan Kunte takes it a step further with a simple PHP index file or better still, a WordPress plugin.

Organizing information well might be a quick-and-easy solution to the information overload on the blogsphere. Shyam has a nine-step program to becoming a Google Reader Ninja.

Gaurav Mishra is hosting what might be the India’s first Tweetup (Twitter Meetup) on December 29. Here’s where he tells us more about the Tweetup and seven reasons on why one should sign up for Twitter.

Blog meets are so passe. I want to do a Mumbai Twitter meet. Anyone interested?

Patrix has made some neat suggestions to increase and retain your RSS subscriber base:

Don’t display your RSS count button if your subscriber base is less than 100… People often like to read what other people are reading and a small subscriber count may turn them off or might seem as if your content isn’t worth subscribing. When you have a large enough (subjective) subscriber base, feel free to flaunt it around.

Increase your RSS feed readers

Now for some Friday levity. One constant grouse against DesiPundit’s variety of links is that there isn’t any. Does DesiPundit link to the same blogs over and over again?

Thejo digs into the stats and comes up with some detailed and surprising results. More details of his results and methods over at my blog. DesiPundit Reader Survey results coming up soon.