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BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBook: At Today's WordPress Camp in San Francisco - covered in detail by ZD's Andrew Mager here - Founder Matt Mullenweg discussed impressive growth for WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Page views grew from 1.5 billion to 6.5 billion/month with 120-160 million unique visitors, including a third from heavyweight media...; Tags: Facebook, Network, Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, BuddyPress, Andy, Blogging, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-08-16
Wordcamp 2008: In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...; Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2008-08-16
Is copy and paste really needed on the iPhone?: Is copy and paste really needed on the iPhone?Stop making excusesI can't even count the number of times I send someone a URL or get a URL in an email.The iPhone is showing it's lineage as an iPOD and not a serious computer, and I at least give Apple credit...; Tags: E-mail, Desktops, iphone, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Wordpress; Discussion threads 2008-08-05
PicLens Plugin for Wordpress (zip): The PicLens Plugin for WordPress makes it easy for you to provide your readers with an immersive slide show experience. Visitors simply click a "start slideshow" link see example to activate PicLens Lite, a slick filmstrip-style presentation console. From there, they can play or pause your slideshow, or better yet...; Tags: slideshow, wordpress, cooliris; Software downloads 2008-08-05
WordPress iPhone client stresses the need for copy/paste and BT keyboard support: WordPress iPhone client stresses the need for copy/paste and BT keyboard supportProductivity measurementsThis would be a great benchmark to compare productivity between the iPhone and other smartphones. So far, reviews of the iPhone have basically boiled down to [b]USER EXPERIENCE, USER EXPERIENCE, USER EXPERIENCE!11!!1one!!1[/b]. You could tell us [b]exactly[/b] how...; Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, WordPress iPhone, keyboard support, Apple iPhone, User Experience, Wordpress, British Telecommunications, keyboard; Discussion threads 2008-07-22

WordPress iPhone client stresses the need for copy/paste and BT keyboard support: Jason posted the news that a WordPress iPhone client was coming soon and it is now available on the Apple App Store. I downloaded it with hopes that I could then blog here from the iPhone, but this WordPress client requires you to have WordPress 2.5 or later running and...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Blog, British Telecommunications, Apple Inc., Wordpress, Blogging, Keyboards, Bluetooth, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-22
WordPress client for iPhone imminent: WordPress client for iPhone imminentRE: WordPress client for iPhone imminentGlad to know that is coming. I was little surprised it wasn't available with the launch of the App Store. Can't wait.; Tags: Wordpress, Apple iPhone; Discussion threads 2008-07-22
WordPress client for iPhone released: Excellent news for bloggers came a few weeks ago when WordPress announced that they're developing a client application for the iPhone. WordPress posted a note on their blog yesterday stating that they've successfully uploaded the application to the iTunes Store, and that it's in a status of...; Tags: Blogging, Channel Management, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, Internet, jason D. O'Grady, Marketing, Personal Technology, Wordpress, Apple iPhone; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Optin Buddy (exe): Optin Buddy lets you personalize your sales letter and address your prospects by name. Add images, videos, audios, or anything else that can be possibly be placed on a website as a thank you message after opt in. Save your optin code as as Wordpress Plugin or Wordpress sidebar widget....; Tags: Wordpress, Henry Zeng, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Sales, Marketing, Internet; Software downloads 2008-07-16
WordPress 2.6 disables remote access, swats 194 bugs: WordPress 2.6 disables remote access, swats 194 bugsCondom photoAnd the condom photo signifies what exactly? Increased protection?Another OpenSource Triumph!Insecure architecture fixed in version 2.6! Well, better late than never, right? And of course in the OpenSource tradition, they fixed it ... fast? 196 bugs! A service pack and a half,...; Tags: WordPress 2.6, OpenSource, Wordpress, remote access; Discussion threads 2008-07-15
WordPress 2.6 disables remote access, swats 194 bugs: WordPress, one of the fastest growing blog software providers, has shipped a new update with fixes for nearly 200 bugs and a major security-related change to disable remote publishing protocols by default. With WordPress 2.6, the open-source software promises to be more secure out-of-the-box with full SSL...; Tags: Remote Access, Wordpress, SSL, WordPress 2.6, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-15
WordPress, Gears, and the converging browser/desktop: WordPress, Gears, and the converging browser/desktopGears is good, but, we still need support for a better compiled languagelike a special sand-boxed version of Java. Without Java or similar, we can NOT do things like import complex file types or do a lot of the things that we need for full...; Tags: Mainframes, cloud computing, Web browsers, mainframe, Web application, desktop, Wordpress, Web browser; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
WordPress, Gears, and the converging browser/desktop: I had a good conversation today about the browser/desktop hybrid and where the converging is going to happen. Will it be more on the desktop side or will it be more on the browser side? I think we've seen the original browser-based development model win out as more and more...; Tags: Wordpress, Blogging, Web Browser, Desktops, Web Browsers, Hardware, Internet, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Will it always be about Microsoft?: In a rather heated argument during MIX 08 last week, Miguel de Icaza right made a provocative statement the reporters in the room seem to have glossed over. "There is a feature beyond selling corporate [software] and patents ... it's going to be owning end users." ...; Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Wordpress, Movable Type, Channel Management, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Marketing, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-09
Wordpress Theme Generator (exe): Free WordPress Theme Generator, Unleash your creative ideas and bring your WordPress sites to life. Generate elegant and modern WordPress theme. Harness the power of WordPress to transform your publishing platform to a success. Make your design decision on fly without any HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge. This version...; Tags: Wordpress, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2008-02-19
WordPress 2.3.3. an 'urgent security release': WordPress 2.3.3. an 'urgent security release'Ouchnt; Tags: WordPress 2.3.3, Wordpress, security; Discussion threads 2008-02-06
WordPress 2.3.3. an 'urgent security release': WordPress has released version 2.3.3 to plug a flaw that would allow a specially crafted request to edit posts of other users on that blog. In a post, WordPress noted that 2.3.3 is "an urgent security release." You can fix the flaw without downloading the new version....; Tags: Wordpress, Blogging, Security, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-06
Lucipress (zip): The Lucipress plugin for wordpress enables you to post to your Wordpress page by sending standard text-files, sound, photo's, images and video's from any computer or mobile device to your wordpress Web log using the ftp-protocol. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Wordpress, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-02-06
Hello world!: Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! by James Farrar; Tags: Wordpress, Blogging, Internet, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-02-05
SAP's alternative Twitter project: Following on from my last piece about Twitter, I also spoke with Craig Cmehil, another Irregular and SAPper. For some weeks, Craig has been running a side project to develop a Twitteresque alternative for use inside the firewall. Wordpress's Prologue might make a decent alternative but Craig's work started before...; Tags: SAP AG, Wordpress, Twitter, Productivity, Firewalls, Networking, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-01-31