If you are Facebook users–who are not?–you may put various banners (badges / logo / widget, chicklet) into your blog by visiting this link (after login into your account, of course).

Badges available inludes:

• Profile badge, click here to create one.

Share your Facebook information on your websites.

• Photo badge

Share your Facebook photos on your websites.

• Share badge

Let visitors to your site share your content on Facebook. See two different types of button here (inside the post and above the post)

• Twitter Link

Automatically post your Facebook status updates to Twitter.

• Fan Box

Allow users to become your fan and view your Facebook Page stream.

• Page Badge

Share your Facebook Page information on other websites.

• Comment Box

Allow users to easily comment on your content.

• Live Stream

Allow Facebook users to connect, share and post updates in real-time.

• Publishing to Facebook

Let users publish their actions and content back to Facebook.

Notes:
Two imporant badge you can’t miss: (1) Profile badge and (2) Share badge. Share badge is very useful to boost your blog popularity. If you’re blogging using blogger / blogspot, see the sample placement here. Facebook Share is like voting for your blog. Everytime someone clicks the Share button, the number will increase. If you click the Facebook Share button on the blog’s frontpage, it means you vote for the blog. If you click the Faebook Share button when you are reading an article of a particular blog, you vote for the article not the blog; so the number will be added for the particular post / article.

Alex King one of Wordpress.org team unveiles the Wordpress Help Center (WPHC) affiliate program.

There are two types of affiliates offered.

First type, affiliate for everyone: Anyone can earn referral money by registering as an affiliate and sending people to the WordPress HelpCenter.”

Second type, affiliate for authors of wordpress plugins and themes.
Register all your plugins and themes. Whenever we provide support for a registered plugin or theme, the affiliate developer receives a payment.

How much?

Get Paid, $1 Per Event

What’s event?

(1) Each time wp provide paid support on one of your registered plugins or themes, that is an event (applied for authors of wp plugins / themes only).

or

(2) Referrals with your affiliate code (even if the support is for something besides one of your plugins or themes) are also events (applied to everyone, could be the first and second type).

For example

* A user comes to your site looking for plugin support, and is directed to the WordPress HelpCenter from your affiliate badge.
* If that user chooses to get paid support from the WordPress HelpCenter, you would receive $2 ($1 for the referral, and $1 because we provided support for a plugin you registered with us).

In short, even if you are not using a self-hosted wordpress, you are still able to earn by referring people to WPHC by putting the badge in your blog or your email.

Join the WP affiliate here! and read more details about it here!

“Students should be encouraged to create jobs instead of looking for ones” says Presiden Sby. Couldn’t agree more with President SBY on this. Don’t forget, however, that encouragement should not  come only from the educational system, it also should come from the parents of the students. Thus, educating the parents is no less importants too.

How many young talented Indonesian who have wasted their entrepreneurship talent only to be a PNS (pegawai negeri sipil or public servants) because of their parents ‘indoctrination’?

Vivanews has more
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on National Education Minister to revise the Indonesian educational system starting from kindergarten to senior high school.

“A proper way should be designed to avoid the students from aiming only at final marks,” he said on Thursday, Oct 29, in Jakarta.

According to Mr Yudhoyono, the old methodology will not improve the zest and innovative thinking of the students during 12 years of their study. “Should the method is improvised, we could in the future encourage them to create jobs instead of looking only for one,” he said.

Hate crime bill is important in America a country where its citizen comes from a multi-cultural, races, ethnicities, sexual orientation and religious background. A law is needed to handle that potentially inhospitable environment.

Although a ethnic-based conflict took place a few times in Indonesia, like anti-Chinese riot, Ambon and Poso Muslim-Christian strife, etc I don’t think such law is really need to be set up here. If you walk on the streets in Java or other islands, you’d rarely find such ethnic-based hate-crime.

What Indonesia needs the most is a stern law on corruption. I strongly support a capital punishment or death penalty for any government officials who nowadays regard a corruption act as a sort of achievement. Corruption is the mother of all crimes in Indonesia. The sooner such law is set-up, the better. What do you think?
President Obama signed major civil rights legislation on Wednesday, making it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation, gender and gender identity. The new measure expands the the scope of a 1968 law that applies to people attacked because of their race, religion or national origin. The U.S. Justice Department will have expanded authority to prosecute such crimes when local authorities don’t.

The provision, called the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is attached to a defense authorization bill. It is named after Matthew Shepard, a gay college student tortured and killed in 1998, and James Byrd Jr., a black man who was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death the same year.

Motorola Droid vs. Apple iPhone 3GS: finally, a contender?
Initial response to the new Motorola Droid smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network have been very good, thanks in large part to the updated Android 2.0 operating system.

The new updated version of the open-source operating system offers new Android phones a series of enhancements as well as improved performance. The updated software is being credited with enabling many of the cool new features, such as the updated version of the Google Maps service, which allows for voice command turn-by-turn directions.

The Motorola Droid for Verizon will be the first device that will use the new software. Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA will also be selling Android devices this holiday season, but neither carrier has announced a device that will use the updated version of the operating system.

Google Lets the Music Play in Search Results
Google is changing the way it resolves music-related search queries through a variety of partnerships designed to help it provide more relevant and useful results.

The updates are significant, given that Google gets millions of queries every day about recording artists, albums and songs, the company said on Wednesday.

The results will now include links to audio previews of songs, thanks to partnerships with Lala.com and MySpace, which owns iLike. Google said it will also be better able to recognize snippets of lyrics, which could be useful when people know a few lines from a song but not its title. And its search results will include links to music sites Pandora, iMeem and Rhapsody.

Google Voice ‘Lite’ — No New Number Required
Now Google is hoping to lure more users by offering them a small, but useful, subset of Google Voice features — no new number required.

Specifically, the company says that consumers will be able to replace their cellphone’s voice mail service with Google Voice’s online alternative. That will allow users to play back their messages online or read them on the Web. They will be able forward them to their e-mail in-box or receive them on a mobile device via text message. And of course, they’ll be able to save them, search them and forward them to others.