With the release of Internet Explorer 8 there is also a new technology called “Accelerators”
Accelerators allow you to select text on a page and then search for it, map it, send it by email, or post it to your blog by accessing these services.
According to Microsoft, Accelerators eliminate the need to copy and paste content between web pages and services.

When you have got a Matepress account you can enjoy the benefits of these accelerators in Internet explorer 8.
You can easily select text on a webpage and send the selected text directly to your blog on Matepress.
Matepress respects the original source and will add a link beneath every post, which has been send through the Matepress accelerator.

Internet Explorer 8 comes with a selection of Accelerators included by default, but you can add or remove them as you like.
When you first install Internet Explorer 8, you can accept a selection of default Accelerators, or you can choose your own from an online list of accelerators.
The list of new Accelerators is frequently updated, so be sure to check it out from time to time.

Update Matepress, Twitter and Facebook from one plugin

Wouldn’t it be great to share your blog messages and post them to your other blogs and social networking profiles? This plug-in creates an integration between your WordPress blog and Matepress account. It allows you to post new blog posts to your Matepress blog from within your self-hosted WordPress weblog. If you want Matepress to send this new post also to your other social networking sites. Set your “integrated network settings” on Matepress to the sites you prefer and Matepress will post it to your other social networking profiles. Your blog titles will be send as tweets to Twitter and complete posts will be send to your Facebook profile.

Instructions

1. Download and unzip the ‘Wordpress for Matepress’ folder.
2. Upload and copy the ‘Wordpress for Matepress’ folder to your WordPress plugins folder
   (/wp-content/plugins/)
3. Now you need to tell WordPress to activate the new plugin. You do this by going to your admin panel > Plugins. Here you can click on ‘Activate’ next to ‘Wordpress for Matepress’. If you don’t see ‘Wordpress for Matepress’ here, you may have copied the plug-in into the wrong directory.
4. Go to your WordPress admin panel, where you can find the Matepress plug-in in the sidebar.
5. Enter your preferences and your Matepress account details.
6. Now you can create a new post and update your mates!

Don’t forget to update your “integrated network settings” on your Matepress account, if you want Matepress to post to other social networking sites.

What is XFN?

XFN stands for ´XHTML Friends Network´.  XFN uses hyperlinks in a simple way to represent human relationships. Matepress is XFN friendly for your contacts but also for yourself. WordPress for example makes it easier to represent the relationships you share with authors of other websites

How does it work?

When you are linking to a website that has been authored by your friend, you can represent this fact using the XFN^TM framework, by adding  the “rel=friend” attribute to the link. This way XFN makes it possible for you to see how you are related to the pages you link to.

Benefits

Specialized services like rubhun and search engines like Google, will be able to understand and display the relationships you share with other people. Which makes the content of your weblog more semantic.

Using XFN

When pepole add a new link to the ‘links manager’ , they can specify the relationship they share in real life with the authors of the pages to which they are  linking to. For example this will automatically add a “rel=friend” attribute to the HTML code for the link.

An XFN Example

Let’s say your friend owns a website called “thisisanexample.com”. Since you’re a big fan of his work  you want to add his site to your list of links. XFN gives you the oppurtunity to specify that the owner of that site is your friend, and that you have met in real life. The link that will be created, will look like this:  <a href=”http://www.thisisanexample.com/” rel=”friend met”>Example</a>

More about XFN

If you like to find out more about XFN, here are some links that might be useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Friends_Network

http://microformats.org/wiki/xfn

http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/