It looks like I am going to be at Calcutta, India for two weeks around the end of February and would like to get together with WordPress and blogging folks from that region. March 4th (Saturday) is the tentative date for the meetup and my initial thoughts are to meet at the Park Hotel (on Park Street). I will post updates as and when they develop. I would like to judge the level of interest. Please leave a comment if you are interested. Also, please link to this post if it would help to get the word out. [EDIT]: Not sure if people realize this or not, but I am originally from Calcutta, India. My fiance’ and I are going to visit my parents for a couple of weeks and this is more of a pleasure trip than anything business. Any business conducted will be incidental and will have less […]
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Web sites judged in a blink “If the first impression is negative, you’ll probably drive people off.” We always knew this but there is more research behind first impressions on the web. However, how does this work when content is read through syndication?
[Continue Reading...]Interview With Digg.com Founder Speaking on the Digg technology, recent VC funding, redesign and the effect of Digg ing on the blogging world. Nothing really revelatory there, sad to say. A good writeup on the internal technology would be nice.
[Continue Reading...]Fleur-De-Lys for WP 2.0 is available at http://wpthemes.info/fleur-de-lys/. Check it out !
[Continue Reading...]Pop elements of 2006 websites: Nah. Mashups are sooo 2005. 🙂
[Continue Reading...]More VC equals More Pro Bloggers? More fun on Web 2.0 VC funding for “Pro” blogging. This article looks at the other side of the coin. In my opinion, all of this funding does not spell the demise of print.
[Continue Reading...]Squidoo: Can user generated content directed at marketing and making a profit from ad sales really ever be good content? I have been trying to follow some of the Web 2.0 startups and trying to fathom the principles of user generated content that these sites are hoping to build on. But after looking at some of the existing proponents of the model (such as Squidoo), I wonder if this is good for web publishing in general and the ad/search industry in particular. I really could write a thesis on this but for starters I find myself quite dissociated with the content on Squidoo. The content looks remotely useful but also feels unnecessarily padded and somewhat redundant. Hundreds (maybe hundreds of thousands) of authors are vying for the elusive few dollars in shared advertising revenue and pumping out article after article on search engine stuffers such as Senseo Coffee makers. Squidoo […]
[Continue Reading...]dPolls: AJAX Online polls for free Create free online/dynamic polls using AJAX. Looks like the service is ad supported and the code can be embedded into existing blog posts. I have not tested it in WordPress. Via Email
[Continue Reading...]WP-Stats Plugin Vulnerability: An SQL injection vulnerability has been found in the plugin WP-Stats version 2.x where the author parameter is not sanitized before it is used. At the time of writing, I am not sure which WP-Stats Secunia is talking about. However, if you use version 2.x of this plugin, please disable it till a patch is developed. [EDIT]: See here for the new version that fixes the vulnerability. Thanks Ronald.
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