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Wordpress-comparison-infogaphic. Bloomberg TV Interview. At SxSW last month I was interviewed by Cris Valerio from Bloomberg TV. The interview aired recently and you check it out below: Like this: Like Loading... Related El Pais Interview There has been a ton of media attention here at the blog conference in Spain. In "Asides" Mark Cuban on HD Mark Cuban on HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future. 23rd Page Wherein I participate in the biggest blog meme I've seen. In "General"
12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012. Lose your love handles; call your Mom more often; get that promotion – if you’re like many of us, you’re already thinking over some New Year’s resolutions that will make you a better “you” in 2012. But how are the tech industries’ thought leaders approaching the new year? We asked 12 of them for their resolutions, and will publish one a day starting on December 27th and running until January 7th. Check back here to watch them unfold and get some advice from some of the tech industry’s most well-known names. Images courtesy of Flickr user eschipul (Mary Lou Jepsen, CC-BY-SA), Mercedes McAndrew (Caterina Fake), Jefferson Graham (Dave Morin), Drew Altizer (Max Levchin, CC-BY), Brian Solis (Elon Musk, CC-BY www.briansolis.com and bub.blicio.us).
Software Designers～The People Behind the Code～（英語）：#33 Matthew Mullenweg, Founding Developer, WordPress; Founder, Automattic. The future of WordPress: Q&A with founder Matt Mullenweg. WordPress Founder Talks Version 3.2, Security, Google, and More. WordPress 3.2 recently launched with hopes of bringing a “faster and lighter” approach to the publishing platform. This launch marks the 15th major release of the open source platform and comes just 4 months after the launch of WordPress 3.1. Have you tried WordPress 3.2 yet? If so, how do you like it? The newest version actually arrived on July 4th, which is, of course, Independence Day for those of us here in America.
Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, told us that the timing was fitting since it celebrated the independent Web on Independence Day. “At the core, open source is about freedom – it’s the freedom to run the software for any purpose, it’s the freedom to be able to get under the hood and modify any code you want, and the freedom to really do whatever you like with the software. So, celebrating that on a day when America also celebrates its freedom seemed great,” he said.
As for the specifics of WordPress 3.2, there are several new features and improvements. The TimThumb Saga. Last week there was a serious flaw found in the code behind TimThumb, an image re-sizing library commonly used in premium themes.* Because the code is commonly embedded in themes it’s not easy to discretely update like it would be if the code were a plugin, and even when a theme is updated people are hesitant to update because they often customize theme code rather than making child themes, so if they were to overwrite their theme with a new version they’d lose their modifications.
That, combined with the severity of the flaw, means that this is one of the more serious issues in the WordPress ecosystem in a while, even more than normal because it wasn’t in core. It could have gone a lot of ways, but the incident brought out the best in the community. The core team sprang into action searching through the theme directory to inoculate any themes that contained the dangerous code. Community blogs quickly got the word out about the problem so people were aware of it.
Like this: Related. Matt Mullenweg: WordCamp San Diego 2011 Town Hall. Home » WordCampTV »WordCamp San Diego 2011 Matt Mullenweg: WordCamp San Diego 2011 Town Hall Matt Mullenweg: WordCamp San Diego 2011 Town Hall <p>JavaScript required to play <a hreflang="en" type="video/mp4" href=" Mullenweg: WordCamp San Diego 2011 Town Hall</a>. </p> Rate this: 6 Votes Like this: Like Loading... Related Development Panel - WordCamp San Diego 2011In "2011" Matt McInvale: WordPress As A CMSIn "2011" Matt Browne: Comments Are King — Make Sure You Rule Over The Right PlatformIn "2011" Published February 23, 2012 Event WordCamp San Diego 2011 15 Speakers Matt Mullenweg 74 Language English 1674 Download MP4: Low, MedOGG: Low Subtitles Subtitle this video → Continue the discussion Related Videos Blog at WordPress.com • Contact Us • Powered by VideoPress An Ruckus Follow Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.
Join 9,798 other followers Powered by WordPress.com %d bloggers like this: A New Home for the WordPress Trademark. The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg, Leading Your Company Article - Inc. Article. As a high school student, Matt Mullenweg worked on open-source software projects in his bedroom. Seven years later, he still does most of his work from home. Mullenweg, 25, is the founder of Automattic, the company behind the open-source blogging tool WordPress and a handful of other software projects.
WordPress.com powers 12 million blogs, including those of The New York Times, which invested in Mullenweg's company last year. Although Automattic's headquarters is within walking distance of Mullenweg's San Francisco apartment, he rarely visits the place. Instead, he spends his days either traveling the world to meet WordPress fanatics or holed up in his home office, where he often blasts Jay-Z and writes software code into the wee hours.
In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I like to read first thing in the morning. I go out for lunch whenever I can. Wordpress founder endorses distributed workforce. Companies should move away from self-destructive, factory models of work where people are rewarded for arriving early and staying late, says Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress. Speaking at the Guardian's Activate summit, he described the distributed working practices of WordPress.com's parent company Automattic (of which he is also president), which are inspired by the Open Source movement. WordPress.com receives more than 340 million unique visitors per month, with 100,000 new websites set up each day. "We have taken the best people from all over the world who are unified by a vision.
We have people in 25 countries and 90 cities and don't even have a headquarters right now. I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. Of the company's 120 staff members, 105 of them work on the product, 30 are support staff and the rest developers and designers. WordPress.com was one of the websites that, at least partially, blacked out in protest against Sopa. The Evolution of My Complex Relationship with Blogging. At the end of 2005, about seven months into blogging, I wrote: “I did not anticipate how much effort writing this blog would take. I also did not anticipate how much I would enjoy doing it.” That pretty much summarized my feelings. In May of 2006, a year into it, I expressed similar feelings: “I continue to enjoy writing the blog, much more so than I originally anticipated I would. It is hard work, but it feels like a workout of my mind. Like physical workouts, they are not easy and you are sometimes in pain, but at the end you feel really good that you did them, and hopefully the workouts keep your body, - and mind - fit,” When I go back and read my entries on blogging in that giddy first year, what comes through is an unexpected sense of wonderment and excitement about being a blogger, part of the emerging, mysterious, amorphous blogosphere.
Over the next few years my relationship with blogging started to evolve into something deeper, darker and . . . more interesting. The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered. » Personal blogging adapts to changing social media. Illustration: MaryAnne Bowen Back in 1999, just as blogs were beginning to appear in the news, Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com offered a definition for this new form of media. “Weblogs, typically, are personal Web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides,” he wrote.
Justin Hall, widely considered to be one of the earliest personal bloggers, started a blog in 1994 while attending Swarthmore College. “I was 19 and I wanted to share the amazing shit I was finding on the web with other people who might not know what was out there,” he wrote in an email interview. Although his blog started as a collection of links to things he liked, he eventually started posting his poetry and personal writing. “I found I could get attention and connect with other people by sharing pieces of myself online; it was an energizing experience that encouraged me to do more,” he said.
Disruptive Blogging - Timothy Lee - Disruptive Economics. Beyond Blog Posts - A Guide to Innovative Content Types. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Producing great content is a high ROI activity. Too often however I see people focused on producing individual pieces of content aiming to get links and attention. Putting together a content strategy requires much more than a single piece of content - it requires a vision and strategy for how you're going to publish your content, why type of content you will be publishing, how your audience will engage with it and so on and so forth.
I like to think that instead of focusing on pieces of content - you should focus on the content platform. This shift requires lateral thinking, research and creativity. In this post I'm going to break down some alternative content types that I've been consuming recently. Q&A Content Q&A content is getting some explosive growth recently - primarily down to Silicon Valley's love affair with Quora. Presentations Curated Content. Why Copying Other Bloggers Is Never Sustainable. The following is a guest post from Future Buzz community member Geoff Talbot. If you’d like to contribute thinking here, please read the guidelines. The best place for an actor to search for their character is inside themselves. Some (the bad ones) work from the outside in, looking for some external source to copy, shape and mold. But their performance looks like a performance, a copy of something else and it loses it’s authenticity. Could the same be said of blogging?
As the “Guest Blogging Rage” begins to build in popularity many bloggers are attempting to fill the pages on other more popular sites. In endeavoring to be published, we study the voice(s) of the regular blogger and we attempt to assimilate. How can we find that voice inside of us that will make our blogging unique? Finding our Voice. The “character” is then found by the methodical and painful process of chipping away everything that is not the character. Finding a Platform for your Unique Voice How to Dig for Gold? 7 Mighty Ideas to Make Your Blog Post Standout. O.K, you conquered the Blogging mountain (finally) and started to write quality posts, only to see those often get ignored. You murmured: Hello, what’s going on? How many times has this happened to you? Your intelligent showpieces ought to be honored but that simply isn’t going to occur in the big ol’ blogosphere.
Your blog post only has a few seconds to mesmerize and entice a visitor/reader to delve in further. As an author, you must affirm your thoughts and instantly kick off to influence, amuse, and inspire them within that given timeframe. For lots of bloggers out there, creating an awesome post is like playing a lottery game. In contrast, a few look like to possess a talent, an uncanny knack to publish one smash hit following another. Now, the million-dollar question: What’s their success formula then? I spent quite a lot of time to read viral posts on leading blogs and haven’t been able to find an outline right away. Have a look at these… 1. 2. Problems everywhere! 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. AOL In the Attention Business, Mobile Getting More Of It. Following HP's acquisition of Palm last year, David Temkin, the VP for the Developer Platform at the company, exited stage left to AOL, joining forces with Brad Garlinghouse, Tim Armstrong and the new management at the firm which is working to redevelop and revamp one of the best known Web brands which comes with the baggage of significant history, with more than its fair share of ups and downs.
With the move, Temkin gained an incredible role, running all of mobile for the Internet giant, at a time when mobile content is growing faster than any other segment and users are more likely to add new behavior to their repertoire, unlike on desktops, where users are less likely to change their habits. On Thursday, Temkin updated members of the media on recent product launches and how the company approaches the important world of smartphones. AOL's Engadget App Drives More Page Views than the Web Itself The New Moviefone for iPad from AOL Coming Soon: Editions from AOL.
The Noob Guide to Online Marketing (With Giant INFOGRAPHIC) “Get me to page 1 of Google, while emailing our customers a bi-weekly newsletter, engaging influencers on Twitter, maintaining a captive Facebook audience, capturing new leads, and putting out 3 blog posts a week.” Harsh? Yes. Familiar? Definitely. Everything a Non-Marketer Needs to Take a Business from Zero to Hero Online What you are about to read might be a little shocking. Why? Let the story and the course begin...
A typical marketing storyline You’ve just been put in charge of “Internet marketing” at your new sweatshop startup (don’t worry, I live there too - replete with rusty sewing machines and fake Nike stitching patterns). It’s much more than just one job. With that in mind, I’d like to present you with: A 15,000,000 pixel infographic (that’s fifteen million colored squares, which could make it the largest infographic in history).
It takes a lot of work - although not as much as writing all this - so no whining please. Social media marketing (SMM) Email marketing Lead Generation. Why Big Brands Won’t Advertise On Your Blog. Today at BlogWorld & New Media Expo, I’m giving a talk on brands and blogs. More specifically, I’m hoping to help bloggers understand the world of marketing a bit more so they can better serve their audience and their own interests by knowing the differences between public relations, advertising, media buying and how they sometimes work together … and sometimes don’t. The end result, I hope, is that bloggers have a stronger understanding of why asking a public relations professional to buy an ad is misdirected, or why asking a big brand’s marketing manager to buy an ad is too.
There are several other points to the talk, one of which is probably a bit hard for many bloggers to hear. As I walk them through the notion that a big company buying an advertisement on their niche blog is highly unlikely, mostly because of audience size compared to traditional media, I will make the statement that blogs really aren’t very attractive to advertisers compared to what they’re used to. “Social Objects are the future of marketing.” WordPress & Google, Diverging? | Throwing a Brick. Young Entrepreneurs Offer Tips On Creating Effective Blogs - Resources. Pearltrees > blog.
Social curation finds an audience: Pearltrees reaches 10M pageviews. Aggregation Is Not Curation - There Is A Big Difference. Curation - The Third Web Frontier. Gaining Authority in the Age of Digital Overload. Guest Post: Three Reasons Why Curation Is Not A Fad. In My Humble Opinion. Evolve Beyond Curation: Add Context, Lead Your Category. Turn Off the Social Media Noise. Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question. What news must do. Is linking just polite, or is it a core value of journalism? How Tumblr is Changing Journalism. The Future of User Interfaces: Data Visualization.
Is It Time to Rethink Website Navigation? Design View / Andy Rutledge - News Redux. Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users. Finding more high-quality sites in search. Improving the look of authorship in your search results. Recommend content across the web. Real-life sharing, rethought for the web. Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part.
Fat Pandas and Thin Content. Strategies for Dealing With Panda. More guidance on building high-quality sites. Measuring and tracking code quality. Prerendering in Chrome. Search engines come together for a richer web. Three Key Things Google Is Doing While We Focus on Google+ | Digital. Improved handling of URLs with parameters. How To Implement Rel=Author. Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” Expanded and improved. Google Expanded Sitelinks: Optimize Opening Text in META Description Tag.
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