February 22nd, 2008
Peter Westwood puts out a weekly digest of Wordpress updates. Wordpress 2.5 is on the brink of being released, but here are a few of the highlights which I think were worth highlighting. This week’s digest has some particularly interesting updates.
- Introduction of the beginnings of a plugin update system (#5586).
- Changes to allow uploads to be stored outside of the WP path and have custom URLs ([6780]).
- Allow is_single(), is_category(), and is_tag() to accept arrays of items to test (#5593).
- Reduction of the number of SQL queries made by wp_count_posts() (#5820).
- Addition of random order option to wp_tag_cloud() (#5726).
A huge thanks goes out to the Wordpress development team. This site is proudly powered by Wordpress.
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Tags: Blogging, wordpress
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November 7th, 2007
Are you looking to find a way to ping Live.com for an updated sitemap?
Now you can!
Sitemap ping service. Notify the Live Search crawler if you change an existing sitemap, or add a new one. Use this web address format: http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=[Your sitemap web address]
That will let Live.com’s spiders know that you have updated your sitemap and they will be sure to update their database with the new pages.
Tags: live.com, ping service, sitemaps, webmasters
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October 18th, 2007
MySpace has been lagging in the social networking process lately, but they just opened their eyes platform. Loren writes about the Macworld announcement made today, that MySpace will be opening up its platform just as Facebook already has.
A source close to Userplane mentioned that they have been in talks with MySpace for the past couple weeks. MySpace has been suffering largely because they didn’t know how to scale their platform for the flood of users that joined MySpace.
Facebook has taken the higher road by creating standards within their platform while MySpace has, well, not. MySpace has become a community known for teens and the immature while Facebook initially took off just for college students.
Facebook opened to the world and now they opened up the flood gates for marketing, advertising, diversity, creativity, and ultimately a platform for anyone to use.
Userplane Services
Userplane has some great services that allow for other sites to integrate directly into Userplane products with ease. They have a bright future.
MySpace is in talks with Userplane to launch some sort of integration beyond their typical service.
Tags: myspace, open platform, userplane
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October 18th, 2007
Automattic Inc., founded by Matt Mullenweg, is the driving force behind Wordpress.com and Akismet (the spam enforcer sitting at the club doors of this website.)
“This is what I’ve been working on since I left CNET. The site is still just a shell though, a lot more tidying up to do there.” Matt has come a very long way from where he once started. Matt now has a very profitable business model that Wordpress.com is wrapped around and is moving in the direction of making acquisitions.
Gathering from what else has been happening on the ‘net recently, it seems that making corporate acquisitions is the latest fad around.
Matt is proud to be boasting a “three times faster” loading time already. We have been planning on moving over to Gravatars soon anyway, but this is just another encouragement to do that.
Tags: acquisition, automattic, gravatar, wordpress
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October 17th, 2007
Yahoo! Search is beta testing a new feature for their Advanced Search. Searching for content that is clearly labeled with a specific Creative Common License.
This is something unique that I have seen that Google has not even remotely touched on yet. Why would you want to sort by which Creative Common License is used? Simple. I would want to search by license because it would then let me know what I could use freely or what I would have to give credit to, or anything along those lines.
This is a great beta tool that Yahoo! is testing out and I hope they push it more.
Tags: beta, creative commons, search, yahoo
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September 1st, 2007
Here are some great GoDaddy.com promotional codes that you can use.
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cjcfox10 10% off
cjcfox20h 20% off shared hosting
cjcfoxone $1 off order
Just make sure to enter these during the checkout process and they will be applied to purchase.
These expire on 09/30/2007.
Happy buying!
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August 13th, 2007
Reporting from CNET News, Jo Best writes that Australia is making a country-wide push to block pornography at the ISP-level to clean up the Internet. This is a huge and drastic move for an entire country to be filtering their Internet.
NetAlert’s Protecting Australian Families Online program will also see publicity campaigns stepped up, including an $18.6 million awareness scheme to “inform parents and (caretakers) of children about online safety issues and provide information about where they can go to receive support and assistance”, and 10 new ACMA Internet safety officers who will visit schools to talk about online dangers.
The big issue that the country is facing points directly at children and the lack of censorship among pornographic websites. There is absolutely no clear and cut way for sites to do age-verification for anyone — even those that are legally allowed to view it.
This transition for Australia should see a serious ripple effect among other countries around the world. There has been a huge battle with the ICANN about creating the dot xxx extension, yet nothing has actually moved forward with the case. The last article even mentioned about the extension dates back to over a year ago, May 2006.
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March 16th, 2007
Here is a great graph which maps out the various social networking sites and shows what market share each one holds. With MySpace as number one but Facebook still slowly growing, I think the battle of the social network sites still have a long ways to go.
Hitwise Blog
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February 6th, 2007
Facebook.com, the popular social website similar to Myspace.com, has updated its user privacy settings for feeds.
This is great for users like me that want to customize Facebook to exactly how I want it to function. Yet another great release by the Facebook.com team.
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November 13th, 2006
So I’ve been hearing all about the new PayPerPost.com service that lets users be paid for posting articles and reviewing a company or site. I thought I would give it a shot, so I did. After reviewing the site and writing an article, this is what I get back from PPP:
Thank you for your post!
While the content is fine, your blog does not match the description of the Opportunity and fails to meet this requirement as specified by the Advertiser: Bloggers are asked to briefly review the site, mention the reviews and/or news and/or forums.
Please make the appropriate changes and re-submit your post.
Thank You!
MD
So in the end, this is what I get for putting forth effort and providing them with my vast userbase of RSS readers? I think I’ll stay away from this company, I don’t see myself having much a future this company. You win some you lose some, looks like I’ll be going over to ReviewMe.com instead because they’re a little more friendly.
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