Posts Tagged ‘social network’

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.

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Tags: social network, web application

Become a fan of I Love Colors at Facebook!

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BuddyPress 1.1 Beta has been officially released today but you should only use this version for testing purposes.

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Andy Peatling reports at that the BuddyPress 1.1 will use only one theme for the home and member areas instead of the two that are currently required. Old themes will still work.

Tags: social network, wordpress themes

When you signup for a Google Wave account you’re asked why you want a Wave account. I said that I pretended to see how can it be applied to e-learning, which is my daylight fulltime work (nothing to do at all with my freelance work). So far, its potential could lead to a whole revolution regarding e-learning.

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Tags: google, social network, web application

Google unveiled its new product for communication and collaboration: Google Wave. The question is simple: what would email look like if it was invented today? how could it integrate with all the social networks, instant messaging, blogs, wikis, picture/video sharing services? watch the video and behold the future… Read more

Tags: google, social network, web application

This new search engine named itpints claims to be a real-time search engine. It seems to accomplish this by searching through all the blogs, news, social bookmarks and networks, video and images. I have coded a Ubiquity command to receive instant results through it. Read more

Tags: javascript, social network, ubiquity

Remember the awesome viral marketing for The Dark Knight? there were riddles to solve, cakes with cellphones inside, followers of Harvey Dent on the streets. The upcoming Terminator Salvation is now making its moves and released a myriad of sites, desktop applications and even an interesting Twitter “game”. Read more

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I opened a Twitter account for ilovecolors so you can follow me there. The name ilovecolors was already taken so I registered with my own name.

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Tags: freebie, icons, resources, social network

Although there are specific softwares for social networks, WordPress MU, the multi user version of WordPress, has the potential to be transformed into a social platform. WordPress MU is what powers the WordPress.com blogs, handling millions of blogs so you can get an idea of its power. But WPMU doesn’t offer the social network functionality out of the box.

Enter BuddyPress, the social network plugin for WordPress. We will learn how to setup BuddyPress on top of WordPress MU. Read more

Tags: buddypress, cms, development, open source, plugin, social network, web application