Apr 26th, 2010
by MeanDean.
I’m pleased to announce the initial release of my 2nd social media plugin, the Facebook Activity Widget Plugin for Wordpress. Simply put, it automates the display of a Facebook Activity Feed on the sidebar of your blog by making it a easy-to-configure widget.
For those who may not be aware of what the Facebook Activity Feed is, it is a ’social plugin’ displays the most interesting recent activity taking place on your personal website and/or blog.
Apr 22nd, 2010
by MeanDean.
Facebook rocked the internet yesterday with 5 new plugins, one of which is an API for the Facebook Like Button. After reading about it and playing a bit with the Facebook’s Like Button generator, I decided what’s needed is a WordPress plugin that allows folks to easily configure the look-and-feel of the Facebook Like Button, and then automatically add it the beginning and/or the end of their posts.
Apr 21st, 2010
by MeanDean.
With the release of WordPress 3.0 right around the corner, I thought I might offer some perspective to those arguing against said tool as a professional content management platform.
I figured the quickest way to do this is simply to point out 20 large companies building their brand by means of WordPress:
Apr 7th, 2010
by MeanDean.
Back in 2004, I wrote about using a blog as an inexpensive content management system for your church and/or charity. Seeing how we measure technology in dog years, that article might as well have been written 42 Years ago.
Meaning, blogging systems such as MoveableType, ExpressionEngine, Blogger and WordPress have all matured from snot-nosed little kids into mature adults.
No better proof of that is the upcoming May 1 release of WordPress 3.0.
Feb 19th, 2010
by MeanDean.
Despite the all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the tech community about how closed or limited the iPad is, it is going to sell simply because its users don’t care whether or not the thing is open or closed or “made of kumquats … so long as they can Tweet and Facebook with ease, they’re set.
Dec 29th, 2009
by MeanDean.
Yesterday , I was attracted by the Wired Magazine Gadget Labs headline “Amazon: Kindle Books Outsold Real Books This Christmas.” According to a release cited in the article:
“[the] Kindle has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history …
… On Christmas Day customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.”
Now unlike my good friend Vincent [...]
Aug 3rd, 2009
by MeanDean.
As the dust settles from last week’s “Micro-Hoo!” partnership announcement, developers around the globe are beginning beg the question “what about my needs?”