There’s a great new plug-in for Wordpress blogs called Socialize-Me. It looks at the HTTP referer field and if it’s a social networking site that you’ve configured the plugin to recognize, it shows a link to your profile to whoever is visiting your site. A pretty simple yet powerful concept. It lets you extend your social network from the site the network is on out in to your own blog. Sounds to me like a pretty nifty way grow your network.

Installation is as easy as any other WP plugin. You simply copy the folder into your plugins folder, activate the plugin on your Wordpress dashboard, then just tell it your usernames for each profile you have. The content it adds doesn’t take your theming into consideration:

but after a little javascript and CSS hacking you can make it match:

I have it set up for Digg, Flickr, Pownce, Facebook and a few others:

And considering I’m not in high school, that’s probably a few too many…