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Friday, May 9 2008

Following in the great web 2.0 tradition of having a cute name and throwing some awesome launch parties, New York based Drop.Io has started to make a splash on the scene after receiving their second round of funding in March and opening themselves up to the public. The question remains however, what exactly is the site and why should we sign up for yet another 2.0 service?

Monday, May 5 2008

Remember when you were a kid and you spent the summer at camp, lying in the sun, hiking, grilling and just plain having fun? Or maybe you just wished you were one of those kids.

Here’s a camp that doesn’t have the sunbathing, hiking or grilling. No, this camp is nothing like that at all. This is WordCamp. And the fun? Well, that’s completely up to you.

Wednesday, Apr 30 2008

Remember when WordPress fans held fast to 2.0.x after the release of 2.1.x? Was it just an reluctance to change? Well, hopefully this is not the case with the newest version of the prolific publishing platform. WordPress v2.5 offers better functionality and continues the ease of use tradition — all in a more aesthetically pleasing packaging that works better for you…at least that’s the idea. Read on for the details.

Thursday, Apr 24 2008

After having discussed the basics of microblogging, we here at CMSWire decided it would be a good idea to cover some general practices that will enhance your microblogging experience, increase your results, and create more enjoyment for you.

Not only will these practices aid you in your quest for followers and friends, they will help make your microblog into a marketing tool that is usable in a variety of ways.

Blogging has been around for some time now, but there is a new aspect of blogging that is on the rise across the web. That aspect is microblogging. Much like the advent of text messaging, microblogging is taking the idea of being connected to the next level and sweeping the world over.

Thursday, Apr 17 2008

San Francisco-based Six Apart — makers of Movable Type, sellers of Live Journal — have just unwrapped a lovely new piece of technology. Some call it blog fire-hosing, but we’ll go with rather heavier metaphors and say their new Blog It FaceBook app is double barrel publishing fun. It’s buckshot blogging. It’s strafing the blogosphere. It’s like going hunting with Cheney — you know, pull the trigger once and you get two birds and all your friends, right in the face.

Wednesday, Mar 5 2008

Do you spend the better part of your days twittering with your friends? Are you hooked on Twitter but find it frustrating that you can’t share photos, videos and files with your friends? Good news for you…

Wednesday, Mar 5 2008

Continuing in their efforts to revolutionize the global mobile ecosystem, Yahoo! has announced its newest invention – Yahoo! onePlace, a mobile content management system that will let you stay informed about the things you care about (or are required to care about).

Is this an attempt to tie us even tighter to our mobile devices causing an even more continuously connected world that can’t live without the Internet? Shoot, guess it’s time to bring my CrackBerry out of storage – just when my shrink said I was cured.

Monday, Mar 3 2008

What better a way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon than to create a list of ways to use a piece of software — 48 ways to be exact. The author, Raj Dash. The software, the famously popular WordPress — more than a Blogging platform according to Dash.

According to Dash it’s WordPress customization capabilities that enable the blogging platform to morph into so many different solutions. For example, the ability to create custom themes, custom fields and custom code for custom fields and custom/widely available plugins all allow WordPress to be so many things to so many people.

He does say that WordPress is best suited for small business or low-volume uses as a content management system. So when reviewing the list keep that in mind.

Dash breaks his list down in to several categories including:

• Basic Uses
• Website/WebServices Clones and Alternatives
• Prologue Theme/Plugin Package
• Custom Sites
• Other

In going through the list of 48, there are a lot of existing examples of where a specific use has already been done – which is good to see it’s not all pie in the sky. Mind you, many of the suggestions can also be applied to many other blogging platforms or CMS Systems, so saying they are “unique” might be stretching it a bit.

A couple of examples that caught our eye were twists on some popular sites today and just some plain cool ideas:

• A Geocoded newsite – new stories are represented as icons on a Google MyMap. Click an icon and the news story pops up.

• A network hub/feed aggregator – Using the RSS Feed Importer plugin

• Twitter Clone – Using the Prologue Theme/Plugin

Have read through the article to review the entire list of 48 Unique Ways to Use WordPress. Anything there catch your eye? Have you ever tried one of these and found success or failure?

Thursday, Feb 28 2008

Movable Type, on it’s trek towards full fledged CMS’ness, just got a little closer. Today saw Mark Carey’s announcement of MT Forum — a MT add-on module which delivers fully functional forums that are loosely based on the behavior of the popular phpBB system.

Does this addition bump the MT Community Solution — the other way to build forums with MT — off the table? Let’s have a look.

Wednesday, Feb 27 2008

Looking for a live blogging tool for covering conferences, sporting events and such? Here’s a real contender: Cover It Live. It provides a web based platform for blogging to the masses in real time, complete with rich media support, polls, comments and filtered questions and comments.

Implementation is as simple as embedding a snippet of code into your page and no download is necessary for your viewers to access the broadcast. Sweet as a nut.

Tuesday, Feb 26 2008

Webware, C|Net’s Web 2.0 blog-monkey, has launched the second annual Webware 100 poll. There are awards and there are awards, but popular voting awards under the C|Net banner are worth noticing. With half a million votes from Web users last time around, we will watch developments here with interest.

There is a wide range of categories to vote in including Audio, Browsing, Productivity and Video; but the battles we are primarily interested in will be conducted in the “Publishing and Photography” category.