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Filed under: Asides | Tags: Event (2), announcement, press (50) | April 25th, 2008
Web 2.0 Expo Announcements
The two things I announced at Web 2.0 Expo this morning (I don’t want to tell you how early I got up) were Possibly Related Posts and the Monotone theme. The latter should be available early next week. A few people covered the talk, including WebGuild, NextWeb, Mashable, and WebWare. Update: Here are some pictures from the talk. ¶
Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
Ryan | April 25th, 2008 @ 7:16 pm |
Monotone looks like a good concept.
I had never thought of doing anything like that before.
Catshade | April 25th, 2008 @ 7:53 pm |
You didn’t announce 2.5.1?
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John | April 26th, 2008 @ 1:00 am |
“Lateral navigation” reminds me of what my Dad always called “Lateral Thinking,” which everyone else now refers to as “thinking outside the box.” Lateral navigation is done, sort of, in the same spirit.
Related, I have been tinkering with qualitative data analysis software to optimize it for Arabic and would be interested in lending whatever help I can in i18n and l10n for this feature.
Cheers.
Elektrik | April 26th, 2008 @ 1:11 am |
thanks
Dave Smith | April 26th, 2008 @ 1:45 am |
Any plans to make some sort of plugin to enable ‘related posts’ on stand-alone wordpress installations?
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WebTager | April 26th, 2008 @ 11:43 am |
Thanks very much!
Brandon K | April 26th, 2008 @ 12:58 pm |
The “Monotone” theme rocks! It changes color in relation to the photos it’s showing…. wow!
Julie | April 26th, 2008 @ 7:06 pm |
Wow. Monotone is absolutely brilliant!
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Shelley | April 26th, 2008 @ 8:43 pm |
Take an image, sample colors, and change theme…sounds familiar.
RoQ | April 28th, 2008 @ 7:29 am |
Would Monotone be able to download?
Ben M | April 28th, 2008 @ 10:05 am |
@Dave Smith – Possibly Related would not work as a plugin for .org users because the posts in Possibly Related are not from the blog owner, but from the .com community. Hence the “possibly” title.
Matt | April 28th, 2008 @ 11:01 am |
Ben, that’s not true. The way it ranks is posts from the blog owner are first, then it shows posts from around the wp.com community. It could work for .org as well if we indexed those blogs.
Ben M | April 29th, 2008 @ 6:13 am |
Okay. Thanks for the clarification.
Megapixels | April 30th, 2008 @ 3:14 am |
Related posts makes a ton of sense. I use that feature in YouTube a lot. Is it something that works only on blogs hosted on wordpress.com? I’m thinking specifically about how it can show posts from other blogs on mine and vice versa.
Matt | April 30th, 2008 @ 9:53 am |
Right now it’s just a WP.com feature.
WordSkil | May 1st, 2008 @ 6:16 am |
So, Matt, are you saying that the indexing of .org sites is definitely on the cards, or that it is something you’d like to do but have no plans for in the next year or so?
Matt | May 1st, 2008 @ 10:02 am |
No plans to do .org right now, depends on demand.
Sprague Dawley | May 1st, 2008 @ 8:37 pm |
Rob Marsh has put a lot of work into the Similar Posts plugin for standalone WP sites. It’s pretty sophisticated — I use it and it works well.
http://rmarsh.com/plugins/similar-posts/
Donna | May 2nd, 2008 @ 10:59 am |
Hey, where’s the Monotone theme y’all promised “early next week”?
Matt | May 2nd, 2008 @ 11:16 am |
http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/05/02/april-monotone/
Tim | May 5th, 2008 @ 12:08 pm |
Is Monotone going to be available for .org users or only .com?
Gray | May 6th, 2008 @ 8:53 am |
i want Monotone download now! D=
Ryan | May 7th, 2008 @ 7:13 pm |
Lol, I installed Monotone this afternoon. It sure looks ugly on non photoblogs!
http://pixopoint.com/demo/test/wordpress/index.php?wptheme=Monotone
Ryan | May 7th, 2008 @ 7:15 pm |
Oh, in case my above comment is misconstrued – that wasn’t intended as a criticism, I fully expected it to look ugly on a site without photos since that’s not what the theme was designed for.
It sure does look good on the official demo site though.