Few days ago, I installed a toolbar in this site (see footer). It’s a hosted toolbar service from Wibiya. I was not sure whether I really need that or not, but because I got invite to try the service — after asking for invite — I decided to try it.
Go display the toolbar, we only need to customize the toolbar. There are some “application bars” available such as Blog Search, Translation, Posts Navigator, Twitter, Sharing Tool, RSS, Gallery (Flickr), Live Notifications and Community (via Facebook). We can also edit the toolbar color from “Change Toolbar Theme”. There are some toolbar color availble.
I decided not to install all applications because the I did not need some of them this time. The other reason is because of application feature. For example, for the “Gallery” application, we need to provide “Flickr Set ID”. I think I will put this “Gallery” application when Wibiya give me another option to display recent photos from my Flickr photostream. asked about this, and they responded.
It’s not open for public, but if you’re interested just go to Wibiya website and ask for an invite. I got my invitation token in a same day.
For the email service, I use Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. I almost never got any problem with them. Because they did great job filtering the email spams, I almost never checked my email spam folder. If they’re spams, why bother checking the spam folder?
But, I sometime check the spam/junk folder. Reading the email subjects in brief, just to see what emails are identified as spams. Recently, Mike Aquino was in a bad problem with Yahoo! Mail spam filtering feature. He got a job offer flagged as spam. This kind of case is rarely happened. But, this is a bad situation. Luckily, he did checked the spam folder.
Finally, I have a chance to try my new internet connection. I’m using Telkom Speedy’s Multi Speed package. Actually, I’m satisfied with my current provider. I decided to get another internet connection so that my sister can get her own connection, from her own room.
My current provider does not allow me to share the connection. I can subscribe for an additional line, but considering the cost — because I need to buy other peripherals — and also internet connection backup solution, I chose Speedy. The registration process was simple. I signed up, filed some forms. I signed up on Friday when I visited a computer exhibition. Speedy offered discount at that time. Today, two technicians came to my house and they setup everything.
When I tried it, it’s fast. I read many complains about Speedy service. There are many negative comments — and also the positives one. I think I’m lucky. I hope I can get reliable connection using this Speedy. Let’s see…
Facebook introduces Facebook Usernames. And, now it’s available for public. Now, we can create a personalized and easier-to-remember web address for our Facebook profile page. For those who like ’shorter is better’ in URL, this should be interesting. Facebook explains:
Your new Facebook URL is like your personal destination, or home, on the Web. People can enter a Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google, for example, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with common names.
Before choosing a final username, here are few things we might want to know (you can read detailed info on the Help Center), so choose wisely.
- Usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a period (”.”)
- Usernames must be at least 5 characters long.
- Usernames can not be edited/modified.
- Usernames are not case sensitive.
- Facebook also prevents certain words from being included in usernames. It is not possible to copy a username that someone else has already claimed.
- Usernames are only available for profiles and Pages.
- Only Pages with 1,000 fans as of May 31, 2009 are eligible for usernames.
- Facebook has rights to remove and/or reclaim any username for any reason. :)
If you want more about this new Facebook Usernames, please check Anil’s Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames. Anyway, I’ve created my personalized URL, it’s facebook.com/thomasarie. Of course, it’s easy. Who’s on earth want to choose that name? :D Yours?
Today, when I logged in to my Paypal account, I see a notification about the improved design for Account Overview and History pages. After reading the details, I went to my Account Overview page.
On the landing page (after logging in), as a buyer I see something what I call “these are information I want to see after getting into the dashboard”. Compared to the previous design, the page presents almost similar details, but the position and design are improved — in my taste.
Paypal balance is more visible now. It helps me to decide whether I want to spend my money, or not. The transaction activity page has some menu and shortcuts to track the history. Finding a trasaction, seeing recent and past activities, filtering by currencies are things that can be done easier. There are also some filter shortcuts.
I think it will be useful if I can see the current currency rate in dashboard — USD to my currency setting. :)
This time, the new design works. It offers solution. Thank you, Paypal!
YouTube introduced a new way to enjoy videos. It’s called YouTube XL. Unlike the default design (web browser-based design), the interface is simple and straight forward: large text and simple navigation.
Not sure whether this application is right for me or not. It’s called FlickrSync.
FlickrSync is a freeware photo synchronization application for flickr users. It displays your local folders and your flickr sets and it can establish synchronization rules between them. This way you can manage all your photos locally and FlickrSync will keep them updated in flickr.
Available for Windows XP SP2 and .Net 3.0 only.
Brand Republic released a list of 100 most mentioned brands on popular microblogging service, Twitter. Here are the top ten (order by how many these brands were mentioned):
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Starbucks
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Google
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BBC
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Apple
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AIG
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Amazon
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Microsoft
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Guardian
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Dell
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Coca-Cola
Do all of those brands — and the rest on the list — have their own Twitter account? No. The list does not discuss about why Twitter users mentioned those brands. Not clear whether they got positive or negative comments. They’re just mentioned and popular on Twitter.
(via Doug Bowman)
Yesterday, I enabled some Google Mail features offered from its Labs section — I’ve enabled some before. Google Mail Labs is a place to test some new features in Gmail. There are many features/applications we can test.
Google Mail users or those who use Google Apps for domain can enjoy this feature. Go to top right navigation, and there is a small icon to visit the lab section.
I enabled YouTube, Picasa and Flickr preview in mail features. If we enable this feature, we can see multimedia files preview inside our Google Mail account. The pictures/videos will be derived from the link inside the mail content. If there is a link to YouTube video, we can watch the video inline. Useful!
I went to Google Trend site to check some statistics. When I choose Indonesia as the location search, Google Trend will give more spesific results based on subregions. I also saw: Risu, Indonesia (see picture).
OK, I’m probably not good in Geography subject. But, I never heard about a city named Risu. May be, it’s there, somewhere in Indonesia. But, I never heard of it. There is Riau.
I asked Google about Risu, Indonesia. Google does not know either and give me a suggestion: riau, indonesia.
Well, let’s see the keyboard, find where “A” and “S” are.
I feel that more people added me as their Facebook contact list these days. And, many of them already added me to other social network site: Friendster. I joined both sites, but I almost never use Friendster in the last few months. I found that Friendster is too boring. I know, it might because I only use some of its feature.
When I visited Friendster, I only checked the friend requests, approve (or simply ignore them). Other than that? Almost nothing.
Few days ago, I looked up Friendster’s Alexa statistics. The traffic goes down — compared to its competitor: Facebook. When I checked both service using Google Trend, I got the similar result.
According to Friendster’s press release in April 2008, Friendster has more than 8 million registered users and 4 million monthly unique visitors to Friendster.com as of February 2008. The press release also said that:
Friendster is the most popular online social network in Indonesia with over 3.9 million weekly unique users, according to analysis of Alexa data as of April 1, 2008. “This makes Friendster more than five times larger than Facebook which has no more than 700,000 unique users each week, and this makes Friendster seven times larger than MySpace which has no more than 530,000 in Indonesia,” said David Jones, vice president of global marketing at Friendster. “As the second largest Web site in Indonesia (second only to Yahoo!) and the No. 1 social network in Indonesia, launching support for Indonesian will help Friendster maintain and extend its leadership position in the country as well as with Indonesians around the world.
On the other hand, Facebook becomes more popular now. According to Facebook demographic statistics, there are already more than 1 million registered users from Indonesia as of February 2009. Let’s see what will happen in the next few months. Should be interesting.
Last year, Flickr and Getty Images teamed up to build what they called The Flickr Collection on gettyimages.com. It’s available now at http://www.gettyimages.com/flickr
What happened behind this collaboration? Flickr General Manager explains:
For the past few months, editors at Getty Images have been busy exploring the Flickrverse to find the right photos to be part of the collection — a task that is somewhat daunting when there are more than three billion images to choose from on Flickr. The goal was to choose photos that created a commercially viable collection, while preserving the inspirational and unexpected nature of the kinds of images that are so prevalent on Flickr. Like Flickr itself, this is a “living collection” and Getty Images will continue to add thousands of new images every month from here on out.
At the Getty Images’ landing site, it’s said that:
These are handpicked images with an originality and authenticity rare in stock photos. Images that are available exclusively on our site, in both rights-managed and royalty-free options.
More photos will be added into the collections.
I have Greasemonkey installed on my Firefox browser. After I heard the news about inserting Twitter real-time search directly on Google search page, I gave it a try. Visit userscripts.org to get the Greasemonkey script.
What about the results? It seems that this script is useful. Having search results from two different sources: Google and Twitter. Twitter is known for its social search because people really involved in giving answers, solution and other info.
On the other hand, Google has numerous search results — of cours, it’s the search engine. But, who gives the most relevant results? Is it Google, or Twitter? Well, both will give search results only if they find the matching keywords/phrases. Twitter might be more updated because our search is pulled out from its database. Google might not give the best search query results, but it offers more data.
Google might win, Twitter too. Who’s the winner? We decide.
I just renewed my expired Flickr Pro subscription. I know, Flickr already removed its set limits for free account. I think the most “annoying” about having a free account is not about set limit. It’s more about its 200 recent photos rule.
Oke, the renewal process was simple. Few clicks, and I can enjoy the Pro features again.
I tried to upgrade my Flickr Uploadr also. But, it was crashed few times when I uploaded my photos — no videos. Did I upload many photos at a time? I didn’t. I just uploaded 5-8 photos at once. I think I’ll use the old uploader. What about the video uploader feature? Right now, I don’t use it. I still don’t have a plan to upload videos to Flickr. May be later. Flickr is about photo. If I want to upload a video, I will use a video sharing provider like blip.tv.
After being a free member at Flickr (again), I noticed that my photostream displays more than three sets. It seems that Flickr has lifted its set limit — for free account. Right now, I can see lots of photo sets. So, what’s the exact number? Flickr writes:
We’ve lifted that limit and you’re now free to organize your most recent 200 photos into as many sets as you like.
Thank you Flickr! In short, it means that — for example — if your last 200 photos are organized into 10 sets, you will have 10 visible sets.
Another news is about HD videos support Flickr Pro members. Here are some points to notice:
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Pro members can upload as many HD videos as they want. I hope I read it right.
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Free members can only upload 2 videos per month. They can upload HD videos, BUT it will not be displayed in HD quality. If they upgrade to Pro account, the HD version will be available.
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Video limits still apply: less than 90 seconds and 150MB in size.
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I think I want to renew my Pro account membership sooner. :)
I decided to leave my Flickr Pro account expired for some moments. I know, it’s probably not a good decision. What does my Flickr look like right now? What happens to an expired account? At least, I know the answers. Here are few things I found:
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There are only 200 last photos displayed. But, this number means all your last uploaded photos. For example, if you have 90 private photos — among those 200, unregistered visitors/contact will only see 90. Get the math?
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Flickr misses expired Flickr Pro accounts. :)
Okey, will upgrade my Flickr account later since I’m still enjoying videoblogging right now. :)
When Budi Putra visited Jogjakarta last weekend, I was involved in a discussion about a video provider called blip.tv. I’m using it now effectively for my videoblog. We learned about the service, features, and other aspects that we need to know. It was because we wanted to find the video hosting provider that really meet our need. So far, blip.tv works great on my videoblog.
Here are what we found. If you need video hosting provider, and you consider blip.tv, you might want to know these things:
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blip.tv offers two types of account: free and pro accounts. The pro account offers many additional features like priority transcode access, transcode to iPod and MP3 formats, longer transcode times, hidden videos, and also timed publishing.
It costs $8/month. If we purchase annually, we will get two extra months for free. blip.tv only accepts Paypal right now.
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If we do not want to continue our pro account subscription, some pro features will be removed and all hidden videos will be visible.
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There are no video upload limits per day, or weeks. The maximum video size is 1 GB per file.
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To upload videos, we can use some alternatives: using web-based uploader, cell phone, FTP or desktop software.
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The desktop uploader is called
UpperBlip. It is compatible with many operating systems.
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By default, our “Show Page” is generated from our username. So, it will be something like this: username.blip.tv. We can have different address for show page URL. Username does not have to be the same with the show page. Show page address can be changed, but not the username. You have to contact blip.tv for this.
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blip.tv shares 50% of the adjusted gross advertising revenues that are actually received by Blip.tv and generated by user content with the user who uploaded the content. (source)
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We can
customize the video player. If you want to embed the videos to different sites, we can have a preset to produce desired embed code.
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Many ways to
distribute the videos e.g. automatic notification post to Twitter, Facebook, delicious, etc.
Of course, there are many other features and information. You can see more from FAQ and Help page. Do not forget also to read its terms of service.
In the next few days, Flickr Pro account I have with Lala will be expired (see our Flickr Photostream). I haven’t decided whether I renew it before or after the expiry date. I am curious about this. About this renewal, Flickr explains:
If your Pro account expires, don’t panic! None of your photos or videos have been deleted!
This means instead of enjoying the super-duper capacity of your Pro account, you’re now subject to the limits of a free account. If you upgrade again, all of your photos will be waiting for you.
Any of your sets that disappeared will magically reappear when you renew or upgrade.
Again, I’m curious about this. There are more than 3,000 photos and 80+ photo sets. Is it really safe to leave it expired to see the effect? I don’t know. The free account only has three sets, which sets will be visible? I’m curious. At the same time, I don’t want to take a risk. We’ll see…
Finally, WordPress now offers a better search engine for its plugin directory. It is using Sphinx right now. But, it does not search plugins by authors and tags. It only reads all information from readme.txt file which is delivered in every plugins uploaded to directory.
Another improvement — well, I think I should call it “feature” — is that WordPress.com is now supporting comment threading feature. This feature is included in the core if you’re using self-hosted WordPress 2.7.1. Since WordPress.com seems already upgrade to the latest version, we can now use this feature also. Just go to Settings and choose Discussion from your WordPress.com dashboard.
I’m using Tumblr for Blog Pemilu and my other collaborative tumblelog, Orangescale Tumblelog. So, if you don’t get updates from this blog, I might posts in those two tumbleogs.
Recently, Tumblr added some new features. Some of them are few things that I really like, because I find them useful. Here they are:
- Save posts as drafts.
- Set a post to be published at a specific time.
- Queue up posts to be published automatically on a configurable interval.
Okey these are useful. There is another new feature about audio-related content. We can post an audio content directly from a phone call. Of course, it uses international rate. I haven’t tried it myself. Anyone? If you want to try it, configure the settings from the goodies page. Just in case you need it, you can do it now.
Two years ago (woot! two years?) I tried to start a tumblelog. You can read my old post about tumblelog. It was using Movable Type. And, I left it without updates.
Few days ago, I went back to Tumblr and decided to create a tumblelog again. I want to use Tumblr for some reasons: I don’t want to deal with Movable Type, WordPress or Textpattern to create my tumblelog. Not because those platforms can’t do the work, but because I only want to post. Another reason is that I like Tumblr after I tried it for few hours, exploring its features.
So, here’s my new tumblelog, using Tumblr with custom domain name. It’s not mine anyway, because Lala will also post there. I only made some theme modifications — adding Tumblr theme tags and editing sytlesheet and its HTML. The result? It’s here: http://tumblelog.orangescale.com
Xoopit for Gmail is a Firefox extension to enhance our Gmail account, including Google Mail and Google Apps for Domain. Using this extension, we can:
- Search our stuff (messages, photos, videos, and other files)
- Browse photos and videos from other services like Youtube, Flickr, etc.
That’s only some features offered. Go to Xoopit for Gmail extension page for details. (Screenshot is taken from Xoopit for Gmail extention page).
Vimeo, my favorite video sharing provider, offers its Vimeo Plus for international users. Right now, Vimeo offers two types of account: free and Plus. I’m using the free account, and it’s more than enough for me.
With Vimeo Plus, we can get these features:
- 5GB of upload space per week
- 5000 free HD embed plays with purchase
- The ability to control which domains can embed in HD
- 25fps/PAL support for HD (up from 24fps)
- Make your videos private on Vimeo.com while still able to embed them on your site
- One-button upgrading of your existing videos to the latest high-quality format without using additional upload space
- No banner ads
- Unlimited Groups/Channels/Albums
- Priority uploading.
- Full control player customization
All for $59.95/year. For free accounts, I got these features:
- 500MB of storage per week
- Standard quality Video
- 1 HD video per week
- Basic player customization
- 1 group, 1 channel and 3 albums
This is very a great offer for those who have many videos in HD quality. All my videos are still in standard quality. Well, only capture video using my mobile phone and digital camera. :)
But, when I have my own video recorder that support HD videos, I might upgrade my account. Anyway, among the video sharing providers, I like Vimeo. I tried to upload a same video to different providers like YouTube, blip.tv and Vimeo. And it seems Vimeo is the best solution for me, right now.
I installed Facebook Connect as an experiment for this blog last week. With some modifications, it works fine here. If you’re using WordPress and want to try Facebook Connect, here are few things you might need to know. Anyway, I’m using Facebook Connect 0.9.9 plugins for WordPress. It’s recommended to use the latest version. When I write this post, the newest version is 1.0.
When Facebook users are “connected” to your blog, it means:
- They will be registered to your blog as “Subscriber” in your WordPress system. Some account information — from Facebook — will be inserted. They are “Full name” and Facebook Profile ID.
- The usernames will be a combination of FB_ prefix with profile ID. So, you will have usernames like these: FB_1015647304, FB_1226611178, FB_678048415, etc.
- The “Website” field will be their Facebook profile page.
- Biographical Info will be derived from Facebook profile based on the data at the time they’re connected.
- Email address will not be inserted as user profile data. Connected users can edit their profile (edit display name, email address, website URL, etc) by signing in to your WordPress Dashboard. This will make them supply their email addresses.
- Facebook profile images will be used as avatars.
Right now, I have some questions (for myself) about this Facebook Connector plugin.
- Can they “disconnect” from my blog? I don’t see an option for this. The only thing I can do to “disconnect” them from my blog is by deleting their account in my WordPress system.
- Some Facebook users have been connected. And then, what? What’s the benefit of being “connected”? I know, it’s like creating a small community for a blog. But, what’s the other benefit?
I will leave Facebook Connect here for now. But, I’m thinking of removing it later. Anyway, Facebook Connector is not a bad plugin. It’s great piece of plugin to make connection between your WordPress-powered blog and Facebook.
As WordPress users, we can contribute to its development in many ways. But, if you do not involve actively in the development, you can get involved by participating in a survey.
This survey will help WordPress developers to determine which features should be on the top priority for WordPress 2.8 (and/or 2.9 and beyond) . If you’re WordPress users, it’s recommended that you’re using WordPress latest stable release: WordPress 2.7. As a WordPress user, here few things I want to have (not in a particular order)
- Sort by column on list-type screens. It will be useful!
- Bulk edit on other screens. If it’s similar to bulk edit for entries, that would be great.
- Choose number of items to display on list-type screens (20/50/100). When doing a batch edit, I can edit more posts at a time.
- OpenID in core. Even I’m not using it for my blog, I think it will be useful for those who want to have an OpenID-enabled blog.
- Site closed/maintenance mode. When working on the design, or something is broken, I want to have my blog displays a maintenance screen. Just a simple page, but can be handled from the dashboard.
- Improve category management. Mmm… can I have built-in category thumbnail? :D
- User permissions based on categories. Hey, this should be great for blogs with multiple users!
- Bundle DB backup plugin. Backup is important, so I want to have this. Also, some other DB-related management features e.g. to optimize overhead tables?
- Better custom fields management
- Option to delete inactive plugins.
- More built-in plugins for special purposes like videoblogging or podcast. Can we have podcast plugin like Podpress built-in shipped in the core?
- Built-in search and replace for posts. Actually, there is a plugin for this purpose.
- Additional user profile fields.
- More settings managed from dashboard (web-based). For example to disable/enable Post Revisions. So, the wp-config.php should not need to be edited.
I don’t use widget extensively so I’m fine with widget-related features. Oops.. it’s a long list. I know, those list is based on my personal preferences. You can have different wishlist. :)
Last week, Facebook announced about plugins for Facebook Connect. I saw some sites already using this plugins. Some leading blogging platform like Movable Type and WordPress also have Facebook Connect plugins.
To be more spesific, here is a list of Facebook Connect Plugins available. I’m sure there will be more plugins in the future.
For this blog, I use Sociable, with some modifications — of course. I try to keep it simple. When visitors are not “connected” to this blog, there will be a brief notification. If you’re on a single entry page, and commenting system is enabled, you should see a button to “connect”. In general, the Facebook Connect-related element will be displayed in the sidebar — with the “connection status”. Right now, I’m using it and I hope I can use it for a long period. Because I made some modifications on the Sociable plugin, there might be some minor (I hope!) bugs.
If you only want to test how it works, just sign-in using your Facebook account and get connected to this blog. Anyway, this is my Facebook application page for this blog :)
Just got the news from Six Apart’s Twitter status:
Motion, a new free social application for Movable Type (think FriendFeed meets Tumblr & Pownce) is now in beta! http://icanhaz.com/MTMotion
After acquiring Pownce, Six Apart launched a new social application called Motion. Go to Motion application page at http://movabletype.com/motion/ for more details. This works together with Movable Type Pro. On its product page, Six Apart explains:
We looked at the most compelling social sites across the web, from Twitter to Tumblr, Pownce to FriendFeed, and more. And then we built an application around open standards to offer you the best features of each of these services, on your own site. (source)
I haven’t learned further about this new application, but this might be a solution for those who want to run a community-based website/blogs, or even a personal blogger. And, what makes it even better is that it also works — can be integrated — with other publishing platform. Read the FAQ page.
If you’re interested about Motion, here are some resources/pages to get started.
If you need free mobile softwares, here is an alternative: Phoload.
Phoload is a new community website based on the idea that it should be simple, easy, and fun to discover and download free mobile phone games and applications. Users of the website can rate, review and recommend the software they download. We also aim to provide a great service for mobile software developers. Phoload is designed to make it easy for developers to distribute their software through the website, directly to users who have compatible phones. (source)
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I just logged in to Google Reader to read new updates. And I saw something different. Well, not just small changes, but huge changes on its design. Google Reader is redesigned.
I like its new design. It’s cleaner, no rounded corner there. Square is the new round? I like it!
WordPress.com users are very lucky. If you’re one of them, get ready for the new WordPress 2.7 experience. On Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 8pm Eastern Time (8am, Friday in Jakarta), you should see a brand new dashboard at WordPress.com. If you use the self-hosted version like me, you need wait. I’m still not sure about the release date, but it says “sometime in December 2008“. A Christmas gift? :)
I already use the development version here (WordPress 2.7-RC1-10015), so if you’re interested, here are some screenshots. About new features, navigations, and other new things, please head to WordPress official blog for complete details.
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Here are some news I noted for this few weeks.
Pownce is acquired by Six Apart, a company behind Movable Type, Typepad, and also VOX. I got the invitation in July 2007. After that, I did not use it regularly. What’s next? Well, the news says that Pownce will be taken down on December 15th:
We’ll be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th. Since we’d like for you to have access to all your Pownce messages, we’ve added an export function. Visit pownce.com/settings/export/ to generate your export file. You can then import your posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.
For our Pro members, we’ll be emailing you soon with more information about your Pro account. (source)
Let’s wait about this acquisition. Integration with other Six Apart’s products like VOX or TypePad? That sounds interesting.
Now, about TextPattern. TextPattern 4.0.7 was released last week with some feature enhancement. The tag parser looks great.
Last but not least, WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 is available. I tried it on this blog, and it looks great! I like the new dashboard, the designs, element placement, and more. Blog management should be fun. I feel that. Great!
We can add WordPress application for LinkedIn now.
With the WordPress App, you can sync your WordPress blog posts with your LinkedIn profile, keeping everyone you know in the know. Once added, you can filter your posts with a special LinkedIn tag and even display your personal WordPress Gravatar (global avatar). Updates are automatically sent to your network for instant notifications and gratification. (WordPress Apps details)
This application is available for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.
Yesterday, I got an invitation to try OpenX hosted solution beta program. This hosted solution can serve up to 25 million ad impressions per month. If the “free version” is not enough to serve larger traffic, there will be premium hosted packages.
Compared to the self-hosted software, it’s a little bit different. I installed OpenX independently few months ago. I haven’t decided where I will use my OpenX account, but I will.
Okey, this is cool.
Deskography is a simple little service where you upload photos of your desk. Why? Well, the idea is that it’s fun to invite the world to see where you work.
OpenX, ad management software will offer hosted solution for ad management. Currently, it’s still in beta testing. You can apply for registration.
This should be great because we can outsource the traffic, bandwidth and other resources needed to run an ad management system. Well, there is Google Ad Manager. Which one is better? Still don’t know yet. I’ve signed up for the beta invitation. If you’re interested, just sign up now.
(Hat tip: Eko Pramuyanto)
I have been dealing with vBulletin for almost a year now. I manage a vBulletin installation for my friend at Fashionese Daily forum. Anyway, Fashionese Daily forum have used other forum/discusion engines like punBB and MyBB. It’s now using vBulletin 3.7.3 Patch Level 1.
It’s a pretty busy-traffic forum anyway. In average, there are 1,000 new posts everyday. According to forum stats, there are 500 – 600 online users during the prime ours (registered and guests). From the very beginning, I try to maintain its performance so that the forum is available.
Based on many articles about vBulletin optimization, here are what I did:
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I am not a person who got affected when there are major stock changes in the market. But, for those who need to track the stock information growth — and also use Google Spreadsheet, this is probably useful. Anyway, this will retrieve data from Google Finance.
There is a tutorial about tracking stocks in Google Spreadsheets
Instead of copying data into your worksheet, when the linked source changes, the cells in your spreadsheet will automatically update, which can save a lot of work if you pull reports regularly. This external data can be pulled from XML, other spreadsheet documents, and even (assuming you can bear to look) current and historical stock quotes from Google Finance.
Using this method, you can retrieve current stock information and also pull historical stock data. There are some spreadsheet samples you can download.
Yesterday, I helped one of my clients with her WordPress-powered blogs. When I tried to find the solution — using search engines — I could not find any exact solution.
Problem overview
Okey, here’s the problem: When I tried to login to WordPress dashboard — not WordPress.com, but self-hosted — I always got these errors:
Redirect Loop
The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.
The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.
- Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site?
- NOTE: If accepting the site’s cookies does not resolve the problem, it is likely a server configuration issue and not your computer.
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Skillr provides an easy way to display your skills. Your skills can be displayed as widget. Let’s call it “skill widget”.
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