The Next Social Network: WordPress
Watch out MySpace you are about ready to be replaced.
With all the problems that plague the giant online meeting place, a shift to person-centric social networking is primed to take some share of users from MySpace and Facebook. After all why would you want to rent space when you can own your own home.
WordPress and its upcoming sister product bbPress are offering a multitude of options for users who would are making the switch from social networking to blogging. Why not start your WordPress site today?
Reference:
http://gigaom.com/2007/12/11/the-next-social-network-wordpress/
Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies
Eye-tracking studies are hot in the web design world, but it can be hard to figure out how to translate the results of these studies into real design implementations. These are a few tips from eye-tracking studies that you can use to improve the design of your blog or site.
Windows Live Writer and Integrated authentication – Community Server
Recently Microsoft released Windows Live Writer, a blog authoring tool from its BETA hell to, well, Live. The tool has a lot of promise and is a vast improvement over the default editor in Community Server.
If you are a corporate user of this software that uses Community Servers integrated login module, you were out of luck, sort of until I discovered a forum post by Telligent employee Kevin Harder.
Windows Live Writer and Integrated authentication - Community Server
Windows Live Writer does not natively support integrated logins at this point and requires a username and password to setup a Community Server Weblog account. To do this you need to perform one of the following workarounds.
3 Housekeeping Tools to Add to Your WordPress Collection
One of the great advantages of the WordPress blogging system is the ability to add plugins and widgets. This article offers 3 suggestions to help with Google Adsense, add Gravatars, and highlight author comments. All three are great ways to improve your audiences experience.
How To: Embed a Flickr Slideshow on a Web/Blog Page
Introduction
One of the greatest things about the Internet is the ability to "borrow" many of the cool things that are out there for your own site. You don't need to be a web design guru, just be able to find articles like this one. Flickr has become an extremely popular free photo service and offers many services to its users including the ability to play a flash slide show of your photo sets (albums), tagged pictures.
Why Would I Want To Embed The Slideshow?
Simply put it saves you bandwidth , storage space, and you don't have to have anything special on your site. If you host your site via a provider and have bandwidth limits, this is a must use technique.
How do I embed a Flickr Slideshow?
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