Tonight, on WordPress.com, we launched Email Subscriptions.

You can now subscribe to this blog via email and get nicely formatted posts delivered in your inbox whenever I publish something new. Just put in your email address into the sidebar widget on the right, titled “Email Subscription”. If you are logged in to WordPress.com it’s just 1-click, but anyone can subscribe, you don’t need a WordPress.com account to use this.

With various options like RSS readers, Twitter, and Facebook — I’m still impressed by the usefulness of receiving certain updates by email. Maybe out of habit from my NY subway days, but I still read paidContent.org daily summaries via email every morning.

Like paidContent, what’s also cool about this new email subscription feature is that you can elect to receive digests:

When a user subscribes to a blog they will receive an email containing recent blog posts. The subscriber can select how often this email is sent (the delivery frequency – immediate, daily, or weekly), as well as when this email is sent (the delivery window – a specific day and hour).

If you’d like to learn more, check out the announcement post.

This car is so pretty (and rare) that a $1 million price tag seems almost kind of reasonable – in a ‘if I was a billionaire’ kind of way

Bandcamp adds support for physical goods.

O Gerenciador de conteúdos, especialmente para criação de weblogs, WordPress, é, ao lado do Blogspot, uma das melhores ferramentas para criação de sites do mundo.

Há quem prefira o Blogspot, da Google,  por permitir edição de templates e ser totalmente gratuíto.

Para as pessoas que preferem o WordPress, principalmente os templates prontos, como é o meu caso, criei o icommercepage em poucos minutos, com alguns cliques.

O WordPress é um sistema em código aberto, distribuído em GNU, participando de seu desenvolvimento, vários autores. Quem vê o WordPress, hoje, nem imagina pelo que ele já tenha passado por dificuldades.

A organização não governamental WordPress surgiu a partir de um projeto chamado b2evolution, escrito por Michel Valdrighi, com banco de dados em MySQL e linguagem PHP. Valdrighi continua sendo consultor da WordPress até hoje.

O projeto WordPress surgiu em 2,003, sendo seus fundadores, Mat Mullenweg e Mike little, a partir do b2evolution. Em 2.004, quando sua concorrente mudou a licença de seus códigos, a WordPress cresceu exponencialmente, com a migração dos usuários da concorrente para seus sistemas.

Além dos criadores do projeto WordPress, do criador do b2evolution, se juntaram a esses três, Ryan Boren, no gerenciamento do projeto. Além deles, outros autores do WordPress são:

Dougal Campbell

Mark Jaquith

Alex King

Donncha O’Caoimh

O WordPress ainda recebe apoio da automattic, onde trabalham a maioria dos membros da comunidade e da própria b2evolution que ainda continua com desenvolvimento próprio, por Michel Valdrighi.

Na wordpress.com, os blogs são facilmente criados com poucos cliques e é gratuíto, enquanto na wordpress.org, os usuários baixam os programa, criam seu próprio site off-line, pagando a hospedagem.

A WordPress é um bom exemplo de trabalho colaborativo, de gente que ama o que faz.  O WordPress.com é indicado para qualquer pessoa, mesmo que seja leigo, os problemas de segurança foram totalmente sanados.

Ter um blog gratuito no WordPress.com, significa ter ao seu dispor 3 giga de espaço em disco, os melhores engenheiros de rede do mundo, sem falar em sua usabilidade.

Veja suas vantagens (Wikipedia):

* Gera XML, XHTML, e CSS em conformidade com os padrões W3C
* Gerenciamento de ligações integrado
* Estrutura de permalink amigável aos mecanismos de busca
* Suporte extensivo a plug-ins
* Categorias aninhadas e múltiplas categorias para artigos
* TrackBack e Pingback
* Filtros tipográficos para formatação e estilização de texto corretas
* Páginas estáticas
* Múltiplos autores
* Suporte a tags (desde a versão 2.3)

Por todas essas vantagens, o wordpress é indicado para para leigos em programação, ou pessoas que  queiram trabalhar apenas com conteúdo, sem se preocupar com a programação, manutenão e hospedagem.

Ainda é indicado para estudantes de SEO e SEM, publicitários, profissionais de marketing, executivos e internautas em geral, sem nenhum conhecimento avançado.

www.wordpress.com

Principal fonte: Wikipedia.

By Jânio

Tech geeks and society chic’s came together for the first official time at the BRAVO Opera Club’s Fall Membership party presented by Chic Meets Geek and held at Automattic Lounge.

This was quite a party with quite a line-up with big names such as Damon Dunn (Former Dallas Cowboy), Mattin Noblia (Top Chef contestant Las Vegas), Randi Zuckerberg (Facebook), Maurice Ramirez (Chief Photographer of MTV) and Matt Mullenweg (WordPress). And talking about line-up, we had quite one going outside of the venue. I felt slightly bad for the people waiting outside, but then I realized for every great event there’s going to be a line, so my bad feeling quickly subsided.

This was definitely not one of the normal art events. With tech demo’s and the amazing Terri Disley playing it up this was one of those BRAVO events that will not be forgotten. My friend Carol Tran was the amazing organizer for the night and she did a fabulous job blending these groups.

There are usually quite a few events specifically gear for the tech or the socialite crews, but there’s never been one geared to blend these two power players all together. I think this could be the event series to do it and I can’t wait for more of these to come. Because while I love attending both types of events if I could attend one that brings the two together and only have to buy one dress that be the best situation.

Check out Vidsf.com’s Olya Lapina’s coverage of the event:

WordPress.com now supports geotagging. Every blog and every post can have their own real world location.

The first phase of the project my team and I worked on during our Quebec City retreat has just gone live!

WordPress.com allows you to geotag your user profile and posts. That means you can assign an earthly location to your account and to each of your posts.

WordPress.com will soon launch a Geo Search feature that will allow people to find your posts based on their locations. To show up in the search results, you need to turn geotagging on and start geotagging your posts.

Source: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/a-blog-near-you/

More coming soon on the geo-front.

Hot off the press from the IntenseDebate company blog:

New Translations Available

A little while back we opened up IntenseDebate for localization, and we received over 100 volunteers to help translate IntenseDebate to 43 languages.  Within a couple of weeks we were able to launch translations for 11 languages: Arabic, Croatian, Filipino, French, German, Malay, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish, and Ukrainian.  This week we’re excited to release 6 additional translations … Read the full post

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Kicking it around Quebec City with the Automattic crew last month. Very cool place.

OpenFest 2009 свърши или поне за мен. Сутринта отидохме до София (аз, Николай, Георги и г-жа Неделчева), хванахме 413, озовахме се пред Руското посолство и след 10 минутки бяхме през ИНТЕРПРЕД. Бяхме лееко подранили с 20 минути. Влязохме вътре и след като Светльо ни каза, че още не е готово решихме тактично да изкачакме отвън . Откриването мина бързо и без излишни помпозности. Йовко и Мариян казаха накратко от колко време протича феста, с чия подкрепа става това и кои са спонсорите.

Дойде време за първата лекция на Adobe евангелиста Cornell Creanga (пиша го така, защото не съм сигурен как да го напиша на български). Странно защо въпреки че Adobe са софтуерен гигант лекцията не ми се стори много интересна и със Светльо решихме да отидем до кафето за бира. Само че отново съвсем леко сбъркахме секцията и се връщахме до долу, след това другият асансьор и се качихме успешно. Там си побъбрихме малко с г-жата, която се присъедини към нас.

Върнахме се точно навреме за лекцията на Ники Бачийски – “Как да правим пари от софтуер с отворен код?”. Тя се оказа невероятна интересна и поучителна изпъстрена с бисери като “С един куршум избих цяла поляна зайци” и безспорно фаворитът “От всяка свирка, дърво не става”. Той разказа за опита си в Automattic, компанията създала WordPress. Обясни ни също защо модела на отворения код е по-добър и смело заяви, че скоро повечето, даже всичкия софтуер ще е Open Source. Несъмнено мога да кажа, че това наистина е така. Едно е да имаш платформа, която може да бъде подобрена от много хора, а друго затворена платформа, в която при открит бъг така и не се стига до подобрение.

След това дойде ред на “Вътрешна маршрутизация в СУ”. Сама са по себе си лекцията беше интересна, но след около 20 минути се качихме при OpenArt панела и останахме там със Недков, за да наглеждаме мапините докато Йовко и Начо Каменски обядваха. След края на почиваката за Арт панела отидохме да обядваме в една близка пицария. След още една чаша бира и разговори на най-различна теми отидохме обратно в ИТЕРПРЕД.

Следващата лекция беше от представител на Adecco, но отново не ме грабна. Запознах се с Киро – “Netcutter”, който се оказа доста голям пич.

Дойде ред на другата интересна лекция, на която присъствах. “Изкуствен интелект в системната администрация” от Мариян. Той ни обясни различните проблеми, които е срещал в работата си и подхода, който е избрал, за да ги реши. Понеже се интересувам от ИИ не бях като в небрано лозе, а разбрах елементите, който той използва – Decision trees, Neurone network and Byesian filters. Обясни за това колко трудно е да се направи едно комплексно решение, което да не натоварва системата. Той си призна, че “нищо не разбира” въпреки че се занимава с това от около 4 години . Лекцията му беше невероятно интересна, изпъстрена с хумор на моменти и достатъчно ясна.

За жалост, притиснати от времето, не можахме да останем за лекцията на адаша ми Стефан Кънев. Хванахме метрото и след 15-минутна разходка по Мария Луиза бяхма на Автогара София. Поседяхме малко, изпих една минерална вода и си хванахме рейса. След няколкото “приятни” минути с чалга пусната от мега гениалния ни шофьор радиото спря и вече можех да пътувам спокойно.

Благодаря на Светльо Недков, който ме покани и на г-жата, която направи това реалност. Дано директорката ни покрие пътните разходи /

П.С. Че иначе …

I’m intrigued by Local Motors, a new car company that crowd sources the design of their cars and plans to build them at local micro-factories. This is the first car they’ll build:

I wonder why Diane sent me this post? For the record: I have never worn white sports socks with leather shoes.

Mike Arrington is on a tear with some great posts exposing the dark underbelly of advertising on social networks.

Birthday wishlist of an 11 year old:
Mini computer
Gravity defying boots
16 GB SD card
Songs for mp3 player
Really really really comfy pillow
More songs for mp3 player
New socks that fit (not pink like mom gets)
More songs for mp3 player
Lots of wii games (good games)
Dirt bike (big engine)

The office of the San Francisco mayor has switched to WordPress.

My fortune cookie from tonight’s Chinese take out:

There are no tinfoil hats around my house, but I did recently look into the mobile phone radiation issue. My daughter just turned 13, and she was apparently one of the only kids in her grade without a cell phone. This is one of the reasons why:

It’s from a University of Utah study (pdf) and shows how the human head absorbs electromagnetic radiation from a cell phone held up to the ear. Given that kids absorb a lot more of this radiation and that no one seems to be 100% certain what it’s doing to our brains and bodies (especially the brains of kids which have more rapid cell division than adults and might therefore be more susceptible to radiation), I’ve felt that it might be best to hold off on getting cell phones for my kids. That argument worked for the last few years, but it wasn’t going to work forever. So the other day we did get our daughter her first phone – with the following “better safe than sorry” rules:
- Get a low radiation phone
- Use wired headphones to make calls
- Put the phone in your bag (instead of wearing it on your body)

Oh, and it turns out that my iPhone is quite the fountain of radiation, so I’m going to follow rules 2 & 3 as well…

Bonjour!  We spent last week in Quebec with our fellow Automattic colleagues for our annual company meetup, and we had an amazing time.  This was the first time Jon, Isaac, Beau, and I have been in the same room, so it was a pleasure to work side-by-side and kick around some ideas together.

We also got the chance to collaborate with the rest of the Automattic crew to look at how IntenseDebate can integrate with other Automattic projects, and learn how to apply their scaling knowledge to our systems.

While some of the projects aren’t ready to be disclosed yet, here are some general details about what we’re working on (please note that these include long-term projects):

• Backend Loading Optimization: We’re really excited about this project.  We are currently working on a new method for optimizing how we load comments and trackbacks.  This will improve load times even as the volume of comments on your blog continues to increase, as well as correct a couple of bugs.  Loading IntenseDebate will be even more seamless!
• More Sync Improvements: We had the opportunity to pick the brains of our brilliant WordPress system engineers about the inner-workings of WordPress. We will be adapting some of the code and principles they use to improve the quality of our syncing engine.  This is going to be huge for our plugin and will correct those pesky sync discrepancies that have been floating around affecting comment counts and backups.
• WordPress Plugin Overhaul: The core of our WordPress plugin was written prior to joining Automattic.  Since then our understanding of the WordPress codebase has drastically improved.  We have now identified significant portions of the plugin code that can be simplified or optimized making it much more lightweight and perform better.  The principles that we are applying in this overhaul will eventually be applied to our integrations with other platforms across the board.
• Moderation, Moderation, Moderation! Bug fixes aside, optimizing moderation is high priority.  The main moderation project that we’re currently working on is reworking your moderation page.  We will be minimizing the time you spend moderating comments and filtering spam, and simplifying your user experience.
• Support Documentation and Forums: We’re beefing-up our FAQ and support resources for end users, publishers and developers. This will help  everyone to find the answers they’re looking for.  More info to come on this one soon.

It’s an exciting time here at IntenseDebate!  We’re looking forward to pushing out loads of new code, and we will be depending on you for your feedback.  Keep an eye right here on our blog for the latest news.

Yeah, we’ve got an ID ping pong team.