Automattic has just launched Jetpack, a new plugin which brings Wordpress.com goodness to self hosted Wordpress blogs i.e blogs that are hosted with Wordpress.org.

With the Jetpack plugin for Wordpress, webmasters or bloggers who don’t use Wordpress.com and prefer using the open source CMS version can access features that depend on Wordpress.com.

The social networking site has just added another nifty feature in it’s Insights inventory – real time analytics for Facebook social plugins. What this means is you can track visitor interaction, how Facebook users “like” the content of your blog, how many impressions a particular social plugin generates and much more.

Facebook is all set to change the way users share content and links using the “Like” and “Share” buttons. The sharing functionality of Facebook’s like button has been slightly overhauled which might trigger a retiring door for Facebook’s share button.

The Google search quality team has rolled out a major algorithmic change in their ranking system. This change will impact almost 11.8 % of search queries made on Google search and the “algorithmic change” is designed such that they will reducerankings for low quality sites which don’t add value to a subject or scrap content from other sites.

Some good news for Google Docs users who have always wanted an official office add-in which can be used to create, share and manage Google Docs documents from Microsoft Office.

Hooeey Webprint, an Adobe air app keeps a closer eye on the pages you visit in Firefox and automatically captures a full page snapshot so that you can quickly find the websites you visited in a given time period.

After following a series of strong protests and much chaos, Mumbai police has finally blocked the “I Hate B.R Ambedkar” page on Facebook. The officials are now preparing to find the culprit, who created the B.R. Ambedkar hate group on Facebook

There are reasons why you should avoid the do follow comment system to “try” build up pagerank or allow do follow commenting on your own website, to make it “Sticky” in the sense.

Twitpic, the photo sharing startup now supports video uploads. Twitter users can now upload videos to their TwitPic accounts and share the video among Twitter friends and followers

Pnxye.com offers a simple commenting widget for blogs, forums, static websites and other web publishing platforms. Add a comment form to a static website.

Earlier today, Google Engineer Matt Cutts announced that a new algorithmic change has been launched which will rank the content scraping sites lower in search results. Hence, users are more likely to see those sites higher in search results, who wrote the original content.

You might see a considerable drop in the number of fan page requests from Facebook friends, the next time you login to your Facebook account. It turns out, Facebook has recently removed the “Fan page suggestion” feature for all members of any fan page.

A few days back we told you how Google search results were being intruded by content farms and “agregators” who try to manipulate search results with black hat techniques. Recently, there has been much speculation on the way Google search is populated with content aggregators and AdSense scraped websites

Google Search results has been deteriorating off late. Most of the top ranked results in Google are now dictated by RSS scrapers and content aggregators.

Google has recently released an API for Goo.gl which allows users to integrate Google’s URL shortener in their web applications, blogs or websites.