• BuddyPress introduction from WordCampNYC

    I am still slowly working through the videos I shot during the WordCamp NYC 2009 event.  This was the very first presentation I attended that day entitled “Building Community with BuddyPress” by Lisa Sabin Wilson.  It is a great presentation and she nicely runs through all the major features of this powerful set of WordPress plug-ins.

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  • WordPress vs. Twitter?

    In the theory of limited time and resources, if people do more of one thing then they do less of something else.  So if Twitter is growing, what is losing out?  Are Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yammer, etc. competitors, or do they complement each other?  I have accounts on all these services, and for me they complement each other nicely: Read the rest of this entry »

  • OpenCalais semantic extraction service

    What is OpenCalais, and what is this semantic web stuff all about?  Sure I watched the video on their site, and read through the documentation.  Somehow this all will make web content in general, and these blog posts in particular, easier to find and link with other relevant information.  Which all sounds good, but I want to see it in action.  So I installed their Tagaroo WordPress plug-in.

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