Tag Archives: Social media

WordPress 3.0 Beta first code review complete

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As the WordPress community eagerly awaits the final release of WordPress 3.0 it is always good news when you see positive reviews from Alex King, the WordPress innovator with plugins like the widely used Twitter Tools, the Carrington theme framework, and the WordPress ShareThis plugin, on how things progressed. This is also pretty re-assuring as this is essentially the first comprehensive code review of this type that they have done for the upcoming version.

At the moment WordPress is going through a major transition from version 2.0 released in December 24th 2005 to WordPress 3.0 Beta and 3.0 final scheduled for release in May 2010 according to WPDevel.

For those who have seen the gradual ascent of WordPress into the platform it is now, Continue reading →

Foursquare – geolocation + social network

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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 →