Tim Berners Lee talks at TED earlier this year highlighting the uses of open data and mash ups and the Open Data Movement:
Google has announced it’s waving goodbye to Google Wave – their web app for real time communication and collaboration. I feel like they have dangled the carrot in front of the donkey, let us bite and took it away. I feel I know where Google Wave has gone wrong though, it should have been Google Mail V2, not another App! But I still cant help feeling like Santas been, ate the cookies, drank the milk and left no presents!
WordPress blog 3.0.1 is released, that was quick! This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues and is the maintenance patch following the success of WordPress 3.0 – 11 million downloads in 42 days. Backup & then update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area. Full details
WordPress 3.0 release will bring with it something I feel has been missing from the great publishing system – we will finally have a great navigation system. It looks to work similar to the widgets menu system and allow multiple menu control from one screen. The ability to add and order menu links by drag and drop and great control over the menu links themselves; you can add any existing page, a category of posts, a sub category of posts and external hyperlinks. WordPress 3.0 is shaping up to be a great release.
A million downloads of 2.9 is astonishing, and less so is the immediate release of version 2.9.1 fixing a handful of minor bugs and one annoying one where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. Check out the development blog for full details.
Shopify have released a new theme design called Onyx, its dark and minimal, there’s about 20 default themes in all now and as a starting point in Ecommerce with little budget use a default theme and add your branded header, get some orders flowing and look at your stats and then move to a tailored design.
Good and Bad Viral marketing will be spread across the Internets.
Shopify now integrates with Google Product Search (formerly Google Base). Using this free service is a great way to increase product promotion and discovery. Check your admin pages marketing tab and opt in by clicking the check box next to Google Product Search.