WP Plugin: Listen Button: Create instant podcasts from your blog text with this plugin from Odiogo.com. It creates a “Listen” button on your blog that people can click to listen to the text of a post. The content is read by a machine and the voice stream is linked in a flash player format on your blog. The mp3 resides on the Odiogo server and can also be downloaded. Weblog Tools Collection can now be downloaded in a podcast format with the help of this service. You can do the same for your blog by signing up for their podcast service. I am not sure this format makes sense for the staccato delivery of this blog but it might be a cool feature for blogs with longer articles and lesser linked content. At the very least, it is a novelty for any blogger that always wanted to hear themselves type […]
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reinvigorate Desktop Analyzer: reinvigorate is offering an application that provides real time streaming web events from your blog or website to your desktop. They call this application Snoop. I really missed this feature that existed in past incarnations of reinvigorate. I have said in the past that I am a sucker for stats and this just tickles the stats funny bone. reinvigorate, if you are not aware, already provides a whole bunch of analytics that rival Google Analytics in features and performance.
[Continue Reading...]Movable Type Open Source Project: I know I had read this news a couple of times today but it obviously did not sink in until now. The light in my brain finally flickered on when I read through the RWW post in detail. Moveable Type announced the long awaited Version 4 of their publishing platform and along with that came the announcement that they would release a GPL’d Open Source version of their software in Q3 2007. That is a significant decision considering some of the past tribulations of the platform and in my mind validates the dual revenue model of Open Source Software based companies. According to the MTOS website, they are really committed to the commercial version of MT and are just replying to customers’ repeated requests for an Open Source version. This sounds like a highly calculated business decision. I wonder what results Six Apart is hoping […]
[Continue Reading...]As announced, today is the first day of the WordPress Plugin Competition. Plugin authors should register at the Plugin Competition Blog and start posting their ideas, future plugins and everything else about the competition. I have already received a bunch of requests for sponsorships and prizes. So here is a list of resources for the competition: Plugin Competition Prizes: If you have promised a prize or have paid already, it should show up on this page, more details to follow Plugin Competition Blog: This is where all the announcements and code should be posted. Contact Form: Use this form for sponsorship questions and submissions. Preliminary Rules: Most of the rules are listed here. More to follow on a separate page. All competition entries must be submitted with the final version of code to mark at wltc dot net. This can and should be done towards the end of the competition […]
[Continue Reading...]Big news this evening is the launch of Google Gears which is an “Open Source Toolkit for offline web apps”. Pretty neat idea with lots of possibilities. TechCrunch has a nice writeup and so does Scoble. After some initial apprehension, I decided to download Google Gears and try the posterchild Google Reader app. After following a few steps of relatively simple instructions, I had downloaded all of the new items from Google Reader to my computer for offline viewing. This will be an awesome tool for travelling or to catch up on some extra reading during lunch at the local greasy spoon. I can see a lot of possibilities for Gears. A blog posting app that caches posts offline and then submits them when a connection is made is the first one that comes to mind. The new mashup editor has lots of possibilities as well. While we are on […]
[Continue Reading...]If you or someone you know is using the Vistered Little theme from Windy Road, a vulnerability has been found and you need to upgrade your theme to version 1.7.3 as soon as possible (or revert back to the another theme for the time being and delete the vistered little theme folder). The latest version that fixes the bug/vulnerability is 1.7.3 while versions 1.6a through 1.7.2 are all vulnerable.
[Continue Reading...]Since there are a couple of interesting news items, I have consolidated them into one post. The Blogging World is agog over the (confirmed) news that Feedburner is being bought out by Google for 100 million. My congratulations to the Feedburner team and the VCs who thought this was a good investment. However, I have also been reading some disturbing rumors/thoughts that Feedburner might inject Google Ads into feeds. I cannot see Google imposing this on Feedburner users but if they do, they will lose me as a user. I choose to keep my feeds ad free and I will look elsewhere. Google is reported to be cracking down on websites and blogs that have little content and lots of ads (or made for adsense type websites, a form of arbitrage). The NY Post reports that a number of users have been notified of being dropped from the AdSense program. […]
[Continue Reading...]Check out the refreshed Technorati: David Sifry unveiled a new version of Technorati today with improvements made in usability, design and scope of search. The greatest change is the look of the homepage and I cannot get over the difference. I completely failed to recognize the page and it looked like a MFA (EDIT: Made for Adsense) MySpace theme page at first glance and the ticker at the top is almost completely useless to me since it is almost unreadable. I am sure the technological innovations will be welcomed and the elimination of the “search silos” will make them more competitive against Google Blogsearch, but I think that brand recognition should not be wiped away completely but much rather phased in an out to benefit the novelty and retain customer comfort in the brand. Techcrunch has a writeup on the news. I am a frequent user of Technorati, especially since […]
[Continue Reading...]Building your own WordPress Plugin Series: Ronald over at Devlounge has been putting together a very nice series of articles on developing WordPress plugins. Though I believe that these are not designed for the hard core programmer (WordPress newbies might benefits from a quick looksee), they are written quite well with good examples and might make a good project for the weekend coder. I link to the News Post since I cannot find a good place where all the articles are linked. The articles so far include the following: How to write a wordpress plugin – Introduction Seven reasons to write a wordpress plugin How to get ideas for wordpress plugins Structure of a wordpress plugin WordPress plugin actions WordPress plugin filters Ronald writes well and I like his work. Be sure to ask lots of questions!
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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