Add your linkedIn profile on your site or WordPress blog – no coding

Posted on April 10, 2010 by timani

Recently i was working with the Facebook AP again, before i did my presentation at the Seattle PHP meetup . At the time one of the potential ideas was the linkedIn API and how to integrate linkedIn to your site, but obviously facebook was the API in demand.

As i was playing around with the linkedIn API and i managed to stumble upon the widgets that are one the developer site, and thought it would interesting to add them to your WordPress site.

I am sure that this is ideal for portfolio or sites, real-estate agents, companies adding some social networking flair to their site Continue reading →

Twitter being used as a box-office sales crystal ball

Posted on April 10, 2010 by timani

I think it is a definite reflection on the direction that social marketing is taken when Twitter is being used to predict box office hits, misses and general forecast number, with very good accuracy considering the nature of the subject, the old tweet.

As i read the BBC i saw an article about Computer scientists from the HP lab of social computing analysed about 3 million tweets from about 25 movies. First off it is great to see more quantitative data, as it starts to give a better handle on the larger scale influences social networking has on our lives. So the fact corporations like HP have taken the impact so seriously they have allocated resources and an entire department, dedicated to trends and scientific analysis of the Facebook, Foursquare and others on our lives outside of the web.

image via flickr

Dr. Bernardo Huberman who is the head of the social computing lab at HP noted something important, all-be-it slightly intuitive, Continue reading →

Foursquare – geolocation + social network

Posted on February 24, 2010 by timani

It seems that more and more as social networks evolve that there is a greater demand and influence on social currency as a means of stimilating user interaction and participation. That in combination with the fast growing trend of geolocation based services has led to some interesting mashups, but of interest today is the nifty Foursquare website that offers something for both users as clients and for business too. So lets get down to the basic questions so we know what is going on: who, what, where, when, how and why! Continue reading →

Best PHP Flickr library around

Posted on February 24, 2010 by timani

When looking to add photos to your WordPress site there are definitely a very long list of plugins available to get the job done, and provide a number of handy tools like template tags and shortcodes to throw in your posts and pages.

Whether you are looking to search and add content to your posts from flickr, or you are merely trying to post pictures that you have shared and uploaded to flickr on your site.

If you have ever wanted to do that you may have actually come across one of these plugins. Continue reading →