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 adds some lovely features to help run your blog / cms / publishing system – check out this great video on the new WordPress 3.0 features.
Apple® today released Safari® 5, the latest version of the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4,* and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field. Available for both Mac® and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience. Original Post
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.
WordPress blog 2.9.2 is released, that was quick! “If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade, as usual you can visit the Tools->Upgrade menu to upgrade . Full details on the WordPress Blog.
It’s official, Shopify rocks! if you’ve used it you already know that, but now its official as the new Foo Fighters shop is built on Shopify, the shop is a typical Shopify design easy to use, minimal layout and a user friendly checkout system. Check it out.
I wanted to clear up the difference between categories and tags in WordPress, something I find myself explaining very often to clients new to the WordPress publshing platform. WordPress Categories are your table of contents. WordPress Tags are your index words, think of a book metaphor; Read More
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.