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Google’s Living Stories comes to WordPress

Google recently released “Living Stories for WordPress.” This is, I think, the first WordPress-specific plugin that Google has created — since they have their own competing software, termed Blogger. But I think this is actually a great move for Google, because so many high-profile sites use WordPress now, they really didn’t have a choice. Incoming [...]

Hanging out with Google Around Town

Google likes bring around everyone and meeting people face to face. You certainly will not see Larry Page or Sergey Brin hanging out at these conferences, but you will certainly see Google employees. I was talking with one Googler here at SXSW who is a UX (user experience) designer out of Google New York, and [...]

LinkedIn to Integrate with Google Docs

LinkedIn announced today that they are making new integrations available through the LinkedIn Applications Directory. Google Docs is not the only online tool that is being integrated though. Another huge integration is with WordPress. Take a look below for the first few applications being launched with this new Application Directory. Note: The WordPress integration works [...]

Google Wants to Help Make Sure You’re Secure

Google’s own Matt Cutts recently posted an article about how Google is helping you stay secure. To kick off the security enhancement efforts by Google, they are focusing on WordPress, the same software that powers this blog and the same software that I recently hosted a conference about; WordCamp NY.

SEO: Dashes or Underscores?

Dashes, dashes, dashes. This is what the official statement from Google says. (link) Consider using punctuation in your URLs. The URL http://www.example.com/green-dress.html is much more useful to us than http://www.example.com/greendress.html. We recommend that you use hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) in your URLs. So when you’re thinking about using dashes or underscores in your [...]

Google Inside Lately

In case you hadn’t heard yet, I’m the lead organizer for WordCamp NY 2008, a conference all about WordPress. So I have been really busy organizing this event. There’s a great line-up of speakers, including Matt Mullenweg, Michael Hampton, and Jeremy Clarke, just to name a few. You can view all of the speaker details [...]

Jonathan Dingman on Tools & Plugins

If you missed my talk on [WordPress] Tools & Plugins over the weekend at Izeafest, all of the content is posted online. Here is the embedded video, below it you can click and view it on ustream.tv Watch online: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/709432 Here is my post about the session at SearchEngineJournal.com. Then here is Loren’s post about [...]

WordPress.com Shifts into High Gear

Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg made the announcement today that WordPress.com now has the ability to offer Google Gears integration, making the WordPress.com experience notably better. Here is a short excerpt from Matt’s post about the new integration. On WordPress.com it is used to store all images and other web page components from the admin area to [...]

WordPress 2.5 Officially Launched!

For all those that are eagerly waiting for WordPress 2.5, wait no longer! WordPress 2.5 has arrived!! You can download your copy right now!

WordPress.org Redesign!

WordPress.org is preparing for the 2.5 launch. With that preparation, WordPress.org has been redesigned to fit more in line with the 2.5 launch. Let’s take a look. What’s the largest difference between the new design and the old design? Everything. Different color schema, different layout, different copy text. But one great thing we can still [...]

WordCamp Dallas 2008

WordPress fans around the world, listen up! WordCamp Dallas 2008 is this weekend! Pack your bags, grab a flight, and let’s meetup at Dallas to talk about WordPress. It looks like it’s going to be a great event. I know for sure, Mark Jaquith will be there. Cost: USD$20 — So register today! Here is [...]

Matt Mullenweg on WordPress 2.5

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, put out this screencast today. It’s a quick preview of what WordPress 2.5 holds for all of us. Matt claims that he had five teeth pulled this week and that’s why he sounds “bad”, but I think that’s just his “matt is sexy” voice. This website is proudly powered [...]

Vote for WordPress

WordPress is a world-class blogging platform. It’s not the first I started using, but it’s certainly the best I’ve used. Here’s a great opportunity to show your support for WordPress. Vote for WordPress!!! Again, here’s the link, SO VOTE!

WordPress – It’s About Community, Not Code.

Looking back a few years, all the way back to July 2005, Forbes.com notes WordPress as one of their B2b “Best of the Web” favorites. They also list a “best” and “worst” for WordPress. Let’s see what has changed in three years. BEST: Community of users. If you have a question, either check the documentation [...]

Matt Mullenweg and Jeremy Zawodny Sit Down at Yahoo!

Earlier this week, we can thank Matt for the link [and interview]. Here’s a great overview of what is going on with WordPress.

Google Search Sucks

Well, at least their “related:” function sucks. This is a function that could actually be absolutely amazing and quite useful, but it’s not. Let me clarify. I’ve often found myself wanting to find a similar product or service that one website offers, but maybe I’m not entirely happy with that solution — so I look elsewhere. When I then go ahead and try to use, let’s say http://www.wordpress.com,

WordPress Security Whitepapers

BlogSecurity.net has released its “How to secure Wordpress” whitepapers, released as the first version [1.0]. Wordpress security is something I have been worried concerned with for quite some time. It is so widely used, that hackers are more inclined to go after Wordpress-powered sites because there are so many of them around. The white papers that BlogSecurity.net’s team has released is a great tool to provide site owners. The tool will now enable webmasters to help secure their Wordpress installs and be more, well, security-savvy. Not a whole else to write about on this, but check out the whitepapers that they released. I’ll be implementing some of the tips and tricks to this site soon.

Google Strongly Supports the Joomla! CMS

As it’s pretty clear by the title, this announce comes in the form of an event. Google, as we already know, is a strong supporter of Open Source projects. With that in mind, this announcement about Joomla! doesn’t come as a huge surprise. I am glad to see that the event happened right here in New York City (where I live now), but a shame that it wasn’t too widely marketed aside from the Joomla! community site. I might have attended if I had been paying a little closer attention to the Joomla! community news. Joomla! has some great things in its future, but for now, I’m still going to stick with my trusty Wordpress platform.

Spam Heard ‘Round the World

Something we have seen time and time again is spam on the Internet. I’m just getting sick of the spam around the web. I’m not talking about the spam comments, I’m not even talking about the e-mail spams you receive every hour; I’m talking about sploggers. Better known as “Spam Bloggers,” we have all learned and come to hate them.

These “sploggers” regurgitate the Internet and waste space. They waste bandwidth, they waste my time by having to moderate their stupid pingbacks that have absolutely no value, they waste storage space on servers, they just an entire waste.

Yahoo! to Take on Facebook and MySpace

Yahoo! is once again at it trying to take on the big dogs. The question that first comes to mind is, “will is be successful?” I ask that question because if you look at the first post for the Mash Blog, you can see that it’s powered by Wordpress. But wait a second, doesn’t Yahoo! already have their own blogging platform called 360? Yeah, they do…so why are they using third-party software to power their blogs instead of their own in-house software? Hit number one against Yahoo!

You can make starter profiles for your friends. Think: “first round’s on me.”
You can leave your profile open to contributions by trusted friends.
You can customize your — or your friend’s — profile with modules from a growing gallery of apps.

Google’s Webmaster Central on Duplicate Content

Duplicate content is an issue I’m trying to battle right now myself. It’s been on my mind about Wordpress. Are the archives pages and category pages creating duplicate content? If you look at my site, I actually only allow for category pages to be indexed right now because I’m testing out whether or not that will help my rankings to focus the link popularity. For a full explanation, take a look at this article by Maile Ohye.

I Am Most Like Matt Mullenweg!

So I’ve been a fan of reading up on Matt’s blog lately through the Wordpress Planet feed in my dashboard and I came across this post. I think I had already seen it on Aaron’s site earlier, but I hadn’t specifically seen this quiz. So I clicked through, answered the short 13-question survey, and just on the next screen, the answer to my life! I am most

WordPress, 9th Best Download on the Internet

According to the Google results for the term “download”, Wordpress is ranked #9 out of 800 million results. There are some major players up there in the search results. Adobe, Microsoft, PHP, ICQ, but then there’s #9 at Wordpress. As far as I can tell, not another blogging platform or CMS even comes close to Wordpress’ rankings there. Take a look for yourself. Google: “download”

WordCamp 2007 – July 21 & 22

This 2-day conference will cost you a whole whoppin’ $25 to get into. There are a few items I feel are important to highlight for the 2-day conference. Matt Cutts on Whitehat Wordpress SEO Liz Danzico touching on Wordpress Usability Analysis Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg will present the State of the Word address to the state world. So sad I’ll have to miss this conference. Maybe I’ll get to make it another year. I will however, be at SES San Jose next month at the TLA booth. I’ll make more updates about this, but plan ahead and make sure to stop by!

Vote for WordPress at CNET WebWare 2007 Awards

This blog is proudly powered by Wordpress. Millions of other blogs are also powered by Wordpress which is astonishing for me to see how far Wordpress has actually come. Now coming across these Webware awards, it’s time to vote. Everyone get your mousing clicking ready and vote away for Worpress! Click here to vote

On Paid Links

Something that was mentioned last week at SES NY was Paid Link advertising. Matt Cutts wrote up an article on the matter. So what actually is happening with paid links? Google is ‘asking’ that people report sites that are either buying or selling links in order to start to clear up the index. I happen to completely and whole-heartily disagree with this move by Google. Normally

HOWTO: Migrating from Blogger to WordPress

I couldn’t write it any better, especially since I don’t use Blogger myself, but here is an awesome HOWTO guide on migrating from Blogger to Wordpress. http://www.mamablogga.com/the-ultim…ger-to-wordpress/

Summer of Code 2007 Kick-off

Summer of Code 2007 has officially kicked off as of Thursday, March 15th, 2007. What are some of my favorite projects that are involved with Summer of Code? Drupal (ideas) Eclipse (ideas) Gallery (ideas) Mozilla Foundation (ideas) Subversion (ideas) Wordpress (ideas) Ubuntu (ideas) These are just a few of my favorite open source projects that are being involved with Summer of Code. A particular highlight would have to be Wordpress though, since that is what powers this website and many others I manage and write for.

The Top 50 Most Important People of the Web

Yahoo! released an article with the top 50 most important people of the web today. So what makes this list so special? It’s special to me. #1: Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin. Who better to have as the number one person(s) of today than the founders and CEO of Google itself. The list continues though with Steve Jobs as #2, the CEO of Apple.

WordPress 2.1.2 Release — Upgrade Immediately

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. With that in mind, I upgraded to 2.1.2 just now. As we know, Wordpress — like any other open source application — is bound to have security issues like this happen from time to time. Does this mean that Wordpress isn’t amazing? No, it just means that it’s created by humans. So head on over and upgrade to 2.1.2 today!

WordPress & Gallery Named Best Free Software

Recently on the Gallery homepage I noticed a small article about how they were mentioned in PC Mag’s recent edition. After further reading, not only did Gallery2 receive a mention as one of the best free applications online, but so did Wordpress! That’s right. Both Wordpress and Gallery2 were named as part of the best free applications online and I completely agree with their findings. There were quite a few other applications mentioned that I use on a daily basis, but these are two specifically that I want to point out. Great work, everyone!

GPL, GNU, Proprietary, Google’s Got it

Google has a very interesting search feature built in. You can search for any software item and add the word ‘license’ after it to find out what type of license it is. Here are a few searches to show you as an example Trac phpBB vBulletin WordPress Just as a few examples, but it works for almost any software. I tried Windows in the search, but it came up empty. Although, after trying Windows Vista license, it did come up with something.

Cleaning up the Dust Around Here

So when I started Google Inside (www.ginside.com), it was never intended to have a default or ‘template’ look and feel to it. I always intended to create a unique and well-designed theme. The time has finally come that it’s out with the old and in with the new. The old theme is going away and the new theme is here! The theme has been tested for

WordPress 2.1 Released

The long awaited Wordpress 2.1 is here with some amazing new features. Some features a lot of us have been waiting for since the creation of Wordpress. Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post. The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move

WordPress 2.1 RC1 Released

Wordpress (the platform this site is using) has been released as RC1 for the next major upgrade. 2.1 has been set to the RC1 (Release Candidate) phase and there are some very exciting new things happening in this version. Here are a few of the major upgrades that I’ve noticed to be important: Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions Autosave Tabbed editor More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, etc all instant Faster dashboard Those are just a few. You can find complete details at the codex for Wordpress.

AntiLeech Content Splogging

Lorelle wrote an awesome article on how to combat content-thiefs. I actually took her up on some of the thoughts because I’ve had my fair share of splogs attacking this site and many others. I look forward to see how well it turns out.

Feedvertising by TextLinkAds.com

Feedvertising is a new platform just released today from TextLinkAds.com. Feedvertising doesn’t directly help your SEO rankings, but it does help self-promotion and does allow you to better use your feed. Something to strongly note though, this service is only available to Wordpress platforms. Sorry Blogger, sorry Movable Type (well, not really, I don’t like MT, but anyway), this service is only available to Wordpress. Add your own ads that may: promote your other sites, promote your own affiliate deal, promote a job opening… you name it. Opt in to allow some of your ad spots to be for sale through the TLA marketplace. This is a good opportunity for some users to get more visibility and maybe make a few bucks.

WordPress Named Top Blogging Tool of 2006

Businessweek.com has released their “top of the top”, and Wordpress was named the top blogging tool of 2006. Wordpress Blogger Sixapart.com (TypePad, LiveJournal, MovableType and Vox) Bloglines Hipcast Freewebs PayPerPost LifeLogger Businessweek.com

The Miserable Failure

From what appears to be a normal search, it most definitely is not. I’ve seen this search a dozen times, but I never stopped to look at the ads for this search. One of my colleagues in #Wordpress pointed it out to me. “These results may seem politically slanted.” Is this to go to the extent to say that Google hates the US Government? I most certainly think not, but I do believe they don’t favor heavily upon them. Google does filter and censor results, no matter where you live.

WordPress.com VIP Program

Wordpress.com launched the VIP program today. First thing that comes to mind after reading: “It’s all for the moneyyy.” The VIP is very exclusive. One of the biggest highlights I can see for the program is full integration and maintance within the Wordpress.com network. The cost is $500 setup and $250 monthly, so unless you’re serious about it, it’s not for you. Matt has taken a serious amount of time to build this and they are quite proud of it. I don’t want to spoil all the details, so read about it over on Wordpress.com.

WordPress WordCamp ’06

Wordpress had a WordCamp conference this past weekend which I would have loved to attend. Unfortunately, I reside in the Los Angeles area instead of the San Francisco area, which normally rules me out for such events. I would however, love if there was a similar conference down here in the Los Angeles area of California. I hope that there is such a conference soon so I can attend.