This one totally slipped under my radar until today.

Did you know that Google has added an "open results within my own page" option to their AdSense for Search program? Now, rather than sending readers to an off site search result page you can actually build a local template to handle search results on your site! Using some tricky JavaScript Google actually generates search results and places them within your own page.

One of the major reasons I wasn't using AdSense for Search originally was it's lack of customization options. Beside being unable to customize the search box I was also disappointed with the lack of options for customizing the results page. That's all changed today.

While Google still restricts a lot of your options for displaying results (you can't display results in a space smaller than 500px) they have opened up a lot of potential. On this site, for example, I've managed to build a new WordPress theme page specifically for handling Google Search Results. Using a custom page templates, a blank page, and some code from Google you too can get AdSense for Search working in WordPress!

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Hey folks - just wanted to offer up something for anyone using my digg Integrator plugin. If you're currently using my plugin on your WordPress blog please let me know. I'm going to be starting a list of all the sites using the plugin and would love to offer up free links to any sites that have the plugin running.

This will give me a chance to see how people are integrating the plugin into their own blogs as well as give me the ability to see how the plugin is doing out in the wild. Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing from you all.

As of this posting the plugin has been downloaded 40ish times in the past few days so I'd also like to invite any feedback from any of the folks using my plugin.

Earlier today I found and fixed a few bugs as well. They've been fixed in the current download so feel free to grab version 2.0.2 now.

Awhile back I read an article about building pagerank through the use of linkbacks from your profiles. The article suggested that links from site's like MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr and Digg profiles could be used to raise pagerank and even traffic.

Now - I'm not totally sure that this is true but I think it's probably good practice to somehow link your blog with your profiles. While you could certainly go crazy building template page's that collect pictures, Diggs, and other things, many bloggers would probably find a widget easier to manage.

Enter ShowYourself.

Using a very simple interface ShowYourself allows you to build a small widget that can include links to all the popular social web apps. From MySpace to Virb, Last.fm to Del.icio.us it's all covered. If you don't see what you're looking for you can also add your own links pretty easily. To get a look at it in action check out my sidebar.

I'm hoping to play around with it a bit and get it loaded into my about page soon - that may be a better place for it.

By this weekend I hope to have a new version of the diggIntegrator plugin up and running for everyone. While that release date moves closer I thought I'd offer up a little code snippet for anyone interested in including the new Digg Buttons without adding a plugin.

One of the major downsides Digg's newest implementation is the lack of a "not dugg" state. You basically just get a digg counter set to 0 until your post is submitted and dugg - that's why the diggIntegrator plugin is so nice. Now, if you're ok with the 0 count then there's a quick way to get the JavaScript up and running without a plugin - here's how it works.
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Last week I wrote briefly about the GMark Bookmarklet I hacked together based on Adam Pash's GMailThis. Up until discovering Google Bookmarks I had mostly been using del.icio.us and Firefox for managing my archived links. After last week's trouble with Browser Sync though, I decided to move all my bookmarks online.

Del.icio.us is currently my main bookmark archive and Google Bookmarks has become more of a short term bookmark inbox. This process has been a great success so far.

I was so happy with the GMark bookmarklet that I decided to add a new one to help with bookmarking to del.icio.us as well. I figured I'd share it here for anyone who might be interested.
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