WordPress: The most innovative open source platform yet?: Its certainly one of the easiest to use. If innovation is about bringing ideas to market then WordPress is a great example of same. James Governor of Redmonk, Open Source analyst firm, weighs in on innovation in Open Source and whether Open Source can deliver innovation like proprietary vendor models.
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ClickTale Heatmaps: Much like CrazyEgg, ClickTale promises to help you understand how users interact with your site to gain insights into maximizing usability of your site. In addition to cool heatmaps, ClickTale will offer videos of user actions including mouse movements and judging from their beta questionnaire, they are still feeling around for pricing models. Mashable has a nice writeup with screenshots. User action videos would be tres cool!
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After reading MacManus’ post on BlogRovr I had to try it. I am a HUGE fan of Techmeme and any service that promises similar information with a personalized slant is something that I cannot wait to try. I signed up, downloaded the Firefox Plugin and exported/imported my feeds into the product. To sum up, BlogRovr is a vertical search engine, personalized from your favorite feeds that sits on top of your browser (FF in my case) and displays relevant posts about the page you are visiting from your feeds. The information is obtained real time and the display is fairly unobtrusive. For example: When I visit Photomatt.net, I get a series of 14 recent articles from my feeds, including tags from those items for links created to Photomatt for various reasons. For now, the plugin is not very processor intensive and MacManus has a detailed post on how it works […]
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Great Firewall of China : Use this tool to find out if your site or blog is banned in China. WeblogToolsCollection is not. It is interesting to notice that the disclaimer states that some sites might simply not be available for techincal reasons which might have nothing to do with censorship. Some of the obvious culprits that I tried came back with mixed results. Source: Various WordPress.com blogs that seem to be blocked. This is also a good time to mention that I am going to be visiting various cities in China and Japan at the beginning of December including Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo and would love to meetup and exchange ideas and contacts with my readers and other WordPress users and bloggers while I am there. I will be posting dates soon.
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SXSW: Scaling Your Community: Good summary of Matt’s talk on scaling the WordPress community and his insights into the process of building one of the most powerful Open Source models. I have never had a chance of hearing Matt speak outside of podcasts and the occasional video (maybe at WordCamp this year) but his insights are definitely worth the read. I wish Matt was podcasting his talks. In related questions, do you have WordCamp plans?
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MyBlogLog is a good tool. I use it not quite everyday, but often enough to see how many readers are in the WeblogToolsCollection Community and who is visiting the blog. I would like to have regular up to date click through information (and ad click though information, that is a very cool feature, BTW) but since I do not pay for it, I get stale data. Stale data is useful but in a “meh, shrug” sort of way. However, I have been bothered by one aspect of MyBlogLog that I have not been able to shrug off. R rated avatars. I thought I had read somewhere that MyBlogLog would watch out for these and filter them out but I have seen them become more and more popular, especially among the marketing crowd. I have no right to be, nor any qualification to be moral police. But since I cannot police […]
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AuctionAds is another new way for bloggers to make a little more money on the side. AuctionAds consist of eBay auction ads on keywords chosen by the blogger or publisher. Although the service was launched today and there is little information on how much one could earn, AuctionAds promises to pass on almost all of the revenue to the publisher of the ad. I thought of this service as an automated eBay affiliate program that pays almost as much as that program but has less hassle. TechCrunch has a quick rundown of the business details on AuctionAds and since AdSense does terribly on this blog, I figured I would try them out. You can see the ads on the sidebar. Another interesting fact from their FAQ is that you may run these ads alongside Google AdSense and they do have an affiliate program. If you are trying them out, I […]
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The 50 Most Important People on the Web: Matt Mullenweg is #16. He leads over other tech and web celebrities such as Jerry Yang (#19), Ray Ozzie (#22), Robert Scoble (#25) and Michael Arrington (#30).
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OpenID According to Simon Willison, OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built and the buzz around OpenID is growing. This idea has been batted around for some time but the consolidation of ideas and a working version of the system really gives it some legitimacy. I still wonder what the uptake rate will be. If you are still wondering what OpenID is and what it can do for you, think of it as a decentralized authentication system much like Microsoft Passport but much less monolithic. I can still think of various problems (Tim outlines some of those in his post). However, a good use could be in the WordPress comment moderation system. Since WordPress allows comments from previously authorized commenters, OpenID could be a way to positively identify a “valid” commenter on your blog forever. Of course, if any centralized whitelist type service […]
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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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