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Facebook Connect not only lets you view status messages and profile photos of your Facebook account, you can also reply to the status messages right from your Gmail account.

Activating Facebook inside Xoopit for Gmail

1. Download Xoopit FireFox plugin first. You cannot use this feature without installing this plugin.
2. Lookout for the new Facebook ‘F’ icon in the upper right hand corner of Gmail. Click on the icon to login to your Facebook account.
3. Now set your status on Facebook using the same ‘F’ icon in your Gmail.
4. Your Gmail messages with people who are also on Facebook will contain their Facebook profile photos, status messages.
5. You can view the Facebook status messages and profile photos to the right of your Gmail messages in the ‘Conversation box’. You can click on More info to get more details.

Note: You can use this feature without signing up for the Xoopit indexing service for Gmail. In this case, you will have to sign in via Facebook Connect.

Looks like Yahoo and Gmail are racing with each other to Incorporate Social Networking into their email applications. Check out the all new Yahoo! Mail Beta which has more lot more features including Integration of Photos by Xoopit, Flicker, Flickster, Yahoo Greeting and even WordPress.

Technorati Tags: Gmail, Xoopit, Facebook, Yahoo Mail, Social Networking

Zemanta, a very useful utility and a wonderful tool which helps you write emails like news articles with ease. When used with WordPress, it also enhances your blog posts by adding useful links and images to your blog posts automatically. Currently works only with Y!Mail, Gmail and WordPress.
Zemanta finds and adds(only if you wish) interesting images, relevant links and related articles to your emails and/or blog posts very fast.

Here is how it works

1. Once installed, a small button is added to the top of your email and also in your WordPress editor.
2. Zemanta goes through what you have written and finds you related articles, relevant links and interesting images that can be used in your emails and posts.

Why you should use Zemanta with WordPress?

1. For various reasons, most of us add images to blog content. Zemanta finds relevant images from all the available Photo Sharing sites relevant to your blog content. You will avoid searching and uploading images to your site.
2. Zemanta automatically suggests the targeted tags you need for search engine optimization. Just click your selections and you’re done.
3. Adds other important links based on the content so that your readers have all the important links in one place.
4. Attract more readers to your post by linking to similar topics on other sites.
5. Copyright issues are taken care by Zemanta.
6. I’m sure you normally spend 20-30 min/post approx. to find related links, related stories, images and tags for your posts. Zemanta does the same in 2-3 seconds.

Why you should use Zemanta with Gmail or Yahoo Mail?

1. Your emails will have professional look with images and related content.
2. Receivers can find other related content easily.
3. You can easily add images from your Flickr account or from others. Easy way of sharing photographs along with your email.
4. Informative report-style interface with links to other points on Internet for further reading.
5. Persuasive professional introductions with easy addition of personal images and links to social networks.

Download Zemanta Firefox plugin
Download Zemanta IE Plugin. Installation Instructions here!
Download Zemanta WordPress Plugin
Download Zemanta plugins for Live Writer, Movable Type and Drupal here.

Want to see how it works before installing it? See the Demo.

Technorati Tags: Emails, Zemanta, Tools, Utilities, Blogging, Plugins