While I refrain myself from getting into discussions about something that somebody else said, the last article by Cameron Chapman in SmashingMagazine made me think. Ok, it got me angry because of the dangerous pretentious of the article: considering graphic design irrelevant and worst of all, unnecessary. After reading something I find so shallow and biased, I decided to write a response to it.
Absolutely right. Your website is your mother ship, your identity. Well thought article about keeping the control and the value on your website.
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Twitter revealed at WarbleCamp its upcoming feature, Annotations. Twitter annotations will be no more than tweets annotated with structured metadata. For instance, if you tweet about being listening to a particular song, besides the song name you will be able to annotate (I’m guessing an example here) where did you bought it, the performer’s name or the album or maybe where are you listening to it, making use of Twitter’s geolocation feature.
Since last week, a myriad of sites have been incorporating the “Like” button on their sites. WordPress self-hosted blogs are not the exception and there are a huge amount of Facebook Like buttons on the WordPress Extend plugin repository. But why bloating up your WordPress installation adding another plugin when we can just add a couple of lines and get our button? Save options queries and save loading time with the following tutorial.
It’s important to register the username of your company in every social network. UserNameCheck checks availability of usernames in a myriad of platforms.
Otto wrote a tutorial about how to setup your Facebook Connect application.
Even if you are not in Facebook, it’s possible that you might have seen in some sites a blue button that says Connect with Facebook. What this application does, is to provide a system for you to log (or Connect) into that site using your Facebook account. For example, Digg, the popular link submission site, will let you login and submit links using your Facebook credentials and you can even publish each link submission on your wall. Even if it’s one more OpenID or Google Friend Connect (which is not nearly as good in terms of functionality), it’s backed up by millions of user with carefully constructed identity profiles. Now that’s cool. So, how do we integrate Facebook Connect with our WordPress blog? once again, WordPress plugins come to the rescue.
