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Welcome to the June 11, 2007 edition of the Web 2.0 Blog Carnival (BC)! A BC is a great way to share your blog with the world. Submitters typically see hundreds of hits from this carnival with each submission. Click the link below to submit your article.

Here it is:

kumiko suzuki presents 7 Phrases That Send Your Readers Running posted at Make Money Online at Kumiko's Cash Quest.

Everything Else

Jeremy Hitchcock presents WTTF: Welcome to the Future » Archive » Government 2.0 posted at WTTF: Welcome to the Future,
saying, "Though I'm not much of a blog writer I've got a lot to offer
in humor. Feel free to use the cartoon image in any way on your
circus... Thanks!"

Damien presents Self-Publish Your Book On a Shoestring! posted at First Edition: Doing What They Love,
saying, "For web 2.0 bloggers seeking to publish their writing as a
book, there are cheap and viable options out there in the spirit of
writer/user empowered platforms. This is in the spirit of WEb 2.0 in
how it takes the power from the corporations and gives it to the
everyman."

JHSiess presents So Many Blogs, So Little Time posted at Write Stuff,
saying, "JHS,Esq. ponders how bloggers can maintain a healthy balance
between their "real life" and time spent blogging, especially when
maintaining multiple blogs."

Helpful Hints

Ted Reimers presents How to create a Facebook Platform Application posted at CampusGrotto.

Nick Zara presents Using a partition for your swap file posted at Windows Vista help, tutorials and tricks.

Samir Bharadwaj presents How to assemble a Feedburner alternative using Wordpress plugins posted at SamirBharadwaj.com.

The Latest

Oliver Muoto presents Real Estate 2.0 posted at vFlyer Blog,
saying, "Oliver Muoto of vFlyer attempts to identify and communicate
the functional categories that I think matter most to real estate
professionals."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of best of web 2.0 using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Google does it again! Maybe I need to go to work for them or something. Last week, I found an AWESOME extension for Firefox, "Google Send to Phone." It allows you to send text that you find while browsing to any US based mobile phone! The possibilities are endless. I have already used it to send myself a link to a download. I've also used it to send contact info from an email on my desktop to my phone. Pretty sweet.

You must use Firefox browser to use this. Use the link near the top of this page to download it. You can download "Google Send to Phone" here.

I now rely on several Firefox extensions to make my surfing more fun, productive, and enjoyable. So here they are, five "must have" extensions for Firefox:

1) IE Tab
- This is one of those programs that makes the switch to Firefox a
NO-BRAINER. Why? Because there are some sites that you HAVE to use IE
for them to load correctly. When you reach one of those troublesome,
non-standards compliant sites just click the little IE tab icon at the
bottom of your browser and BAM!... IE loads inside of Firefox. The
whole deal is about 166k! From their website: "IE Tab - an extension
from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of
Mozilla/Firefox. This is a great tool for web developers, since you can
easily see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and
then switch back to Firefox."

2) Forecast Fox
- Ok, i admit it. I'm a weather junkie. I really don't know why. This
amazing little extension puts the weather in the bottom of your browser
for you to see it. You can even hold the mouse over a little icon and a
radar map for your area will pop up. Sweet. From their website: "Get
international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in
any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive
extension."

3) FireFTP
- FireFTP is an FTP program that runs in your browser! If you are like
me, you need an ftp program on occasion. This extension lets you do
your ftp'ing as simple as can be. From their website: "FireFTP is a
free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which
provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Along with
transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes
more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing
directories while navigating, SSL encryption, file hashing, and much
more!"

4) Del.icio.us Extension
- This cool little extension lets you tag a site to your favorites
without leaving the site! I really do not know how I survived life
before Del.icio.us and this extension makes that even more true for me.

5) FasterFox
- Firefox is already fast, but this little extension lets you speed up
your Firefox experience EVEN MORE. From their website: "Performance and
network tweaks for Firefox. Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network
and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining,
cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay."