I’ve been telling everyone for a while that WordPress is a Content Management System – now I’m ready to prove it. I’ve set up a small site for The National Gallery and Gift Shop in Sutton, MA using WordPress and I’m thrilled with the way it’s turned out. Before I mention the features of what has been setup, you need to know one thing – I was able to train them how to enter content, manage their calendar and…
I remember when I first setup WordPress back in 2003, the old 1.x days, my comment was that “It’s just like a CMS (content management system) with most of the functionality removed.” Well, with the release of WordPress 2.6, I can finally eat my words. It’s now simply a content management system, and a darned good one at that. That’s right, content management system. To call it a blogging platform is to sell it short. It’s now all the features…
I started working with Mysql Workbench 5.0.23 today, which they list as the successor to the sometimes buggy, sometimes brilliant FabForce DB4 mysql modeling tool. I”m not the guy to give you a feature by feature breakdown on the product, but I can tell you this: When you create a new product version you should never take what were free features in the predecessor and make them extras you only get in the “standard edition.” In this case, the import…
Say it ain’t so, Joe! Over the past few weeks, it’s begun to look like Social Networking, the current darling of the conference and consultant set, might have jumped the shark. I personally would peg the exact point where it went careening off track as the day that Waste Management (the guys that probably run your local honey truck) opened their own social networking site. But it goes far beyond that. Earlier this week Om Malik wrote a very interesting…
One of the outcomes of my testing of Twitter lately is that I’ve come to question whether or not Social Media has jumped the shark (props t David Churbuck who tweeted on social media jumping the shark this morning – I initially left the attribution out to save the fall out, but since he linked, no need to save him…) What I am finding is that most of the people I am finding in my general circle on Twitter are…
As readers know, I’ve been testing Twitter. It’s fun, but for me the jury is still out. One of the things I’m noticing is the preponderance of New Media Gurus inhabiting Twitter. And inevitably, many feel the need to constantly evangelize on the issues of Web 2.0. News flash: if you have to talk in broad terms about Web 2.0, Social Networking or Social Media, you’ve probably already missed the boat. This is not some abstract concept that is coming…
David Churbuck posts this morning on Blog Aggregation. We both did a blog aggregation project over at Reel-Time.com in 2003 which, as he notes, was well ahead of the curve (and probably the need). He’s got some excellent points, but I have a few things to add. The idea of a blog is something that many of us don’t fully understand. It’s basically an online journal that was designed to allow users without server level access to maintain their own…
I recently rolled out the http://www.powerupgeneratorservice.com site and in reviewing the initial search results are very interesting. To begin with, some background. Power Up Generator’s previous site was a single page, which hadn’t been optimized at all. They didn’t every turn up #1 when you searched on their own name. My initial survey of the site brought forward a problem for search optimization: they do business across New England. Yet no one searches for “new england” when they look for…
I’ve had a couple sites go live this week – first, some niche websites with NameMedia, Hotcars.com and Dreamwheels.com as well as Cats.com (I didn’t work as much on that one, it was in the hands of the talented Matt Busby and David Rodal). These come on the tails of the launches on March 1 of Biking.com, Cycling.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Mommy.com. I was lucky enough to work with Eugene Bernstein, Tom Willmot, Joe Hoyle, Peter Kuhn and Neema Dhakal…
Like almost every one of you, I get a regular “Apple Software Update” due to my ITunes installation. I got a little surprise today when the Apple update said it had Safari ready to install. Safari? On my PC? What’s next, dogs and cats living together in peace and harmony? Normally, I’d start off railing about this. I hate it when software update functions, which I generally consider intrusive and unnecessary, try to install software other than that which they…