‘WordPress’ posts

WordPress Thelonious, New Optaros.com

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Jun 2010

WordPress 3.0, code-named Thelonious (as in Monk), has been released. That same day, but with somewhat less fanfare, we released a new Optaros.com, running on WordPress 3.0. Here’s the overview video of what’s new in WordPress from the WP Dev blog:

WPBook 1.5 Released – Let the Streaming begin!

Posted by John Eckman on 08 Mar 2010

WPBook So for a while I’ve been working on and beta testing the next version of WPBook. Tonight I’ve just tagged it for release, so it will be available for download shortly. (I’ve already been running it here for a while and testing it on a few other test blogs). The main improvement in WPBook [...]

WordCamp NYC, WPBook, WordCamp Boston

Posted by John Eckman on 14 Nov 2009

Here’s the slides from my presentation this morning at WordCamp NYC. It was in the “beginning developer” track so I tried to focus on the overall structure of how the plugin does what it does and the hooks/actions/filters used. Hard to fit the talk into 30 minutes with time for questions and roadmap – there’s [...]

BuddyPress update: Video from WordCamp SanFrancisco

Posted by John Eckman on 05 Aug 2009

Video from WordCamp San Francisco featuring Andy Peatling, the creator of BuddyPress, showing how it can be themed, extended, and used: (via BuddyPress Developers Blog) Also interesting that they’re using the VideoPress framework (discussed here) to deliver the videos from WordCamp. Related: Social Networking on WordPress? Meet BuddyPress

Social Networking on WordPress? Meet BuddyPress

Posted by John Eckman on 18 Jun 2009

Back in July of 2007, Andy Peatling posted on his blog about creating a social network called ChickSpeak on top of WordPressMU, the multi-user version of the popular open source blog platform . It was a compelling possibility – compelling enough that Automattic (the company behind WordPress) hired him to work on it full time. | View post »

WordPress Video Framework released

Posted by John Eckman on 14 May 2009

The folks at Automattic rolled out an upgrade this week to the video quality of videos hosted on WordPress.com blogs using their VideoPress service. The upgrade adds support for HD as well as other formats, using automated transcoding (see the announcement for more info): With the video upgrade (available on your upgrades page, bottom left | View post »

Zeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Apr 2009

Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS’s, on the process of designing and building web applications: Although I think it’s important to draw a distinction between simple, relatively cheap licensing (the Expression Engine model) and Free and Open Source [...]

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

Kaltura: Interactive Multi-User Video Service

Posted by John Eckman on 19 Dec 2008

Kaltura is an interactive, multi-user video editing platform made available as a service. They provide plugins for WordPress, Drupal, and MediaWiki, as well as a reference implementation and detailed documentation for how to leverage their service in PHP and Ruby. In essence, Kaltura provides a mechanism whereby users can upload, transcode, and edit video used | View post »

Content Management in the Age of User Participation – Presentation

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Jun 2008

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called “Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton” – you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare.   | View | View post »

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