Everybody I know loves Flickr and it’s one of the slickest web applications most of us have seen in a long time. I recently found out that Cal Henderson, the lead developer of Flickr from Ludicorp, is going to be giving a workshop called Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget – How We Built Flickr on June 20th here in San Francisco. It’s also fairly cheap for what you’re getting, so if you’re in the Bay area or can make it here for June 20th I’d highly recommend coming out, I’m planning on going myself. It’s put on by By Designers for Designers who also use WordPress.
Serenity Trailer
The new Serenity trailer looks amazing, I haven’t seen anything in theatres in a while but this looks worth it.
A Calendar Problem
So here’s the scenario: I have a work calendar on Outlook 2003 which gets all the work meetings. I use iCal on my Mac to keep a calendar with mostly personal events and it syncs via DAV online. I would love to combine all of these and sync them together and to some sort of web interface, and make all the events and alarms go to my phone, a Motorola RAZR. Is this even possible? Update: Groupcal looks like exactly what I need.
Bad Wiki
Tiger and Ping-O-Matic
Ping-O-Matic is built into Mac OS X Tiger Server coming out tomorrow (or in an update), now we just need to get into Windows. Scoble? 😉
Kanoodle Klicks
Kanoodle has a big click fraud issue. Might be a problem for TypePad users.
WordPress Direction
The WordPress Mission in response to a discussion that came up a few days ago on the WP-Hackers mailing list. By the way, I hope by this time next year to have eliminated all of the WordPress mailing lists. In thinking about how they’re currently handled I started making a list of how they need better archiving, more permanent URIs, better formatting, more searchable, and basically ended up describing a blog. The mailing lists should become a distributed, threaded aggregator where anyone with a blog can participate in the discussion given they pingback the proper URIs and/or use the proper tags.
Image AdWords
Google AdWords Editorial Guidelines for Image Ads, I think it’s interesting they still call the image ads “AdWords.”
Kevin Smith
Good morning! It gets crazier — Owen left a comment saying that movie director Kevin Smith has a WordPress blog.
Rosie O’Donnell
This is too crazy — Rosie O’Donnell of talk show fame has a WordPress blog in which she writes poetry-like entries daily that get hundreds of comments. (And the site is very snappy, this is why more and more high-traffic publishers are switching to WordPress.) It gets better — she’s also on Flickr. I feel like I just stumbled into an alternate universe where celebrities are using software I helped write. Hat tip: neiljmorrow via email.
Da Vinci Crock
German Wikipedia on WP
The German Wikimedia site looks like it’s running on MediaWiki but is actually on WordPress. Hat tip: Andrea.
WordPress CMS
Corante Recoups
After the Fall addresses the Ev/Corante problem I mentioned the other day. I’m making a point to link this because the blogosphere only seems to link when things go wrong.
ML Baseball Blogs
MLBlogs.com Fouls Out — are blogs over?
XHTML Friends
XHTML Friends is a site doing some very interesting visualization of XFN data across the blogosphere, though it’s dataset is pretty new. Remember adding XFN info to anyone in your blogroll is simple as a couple of checkboxes, so you have no excuses! It would be great if XHTML Friends was the first service to suppor the “me” value for aggregating disparate identities. Some may have noticed that Technorati profiles now sport the “me” XFN value. I wonder why? 🙂
Ken Ham Blog
I tend to link to the more liberal organizations using WordPress because that’s what I hear about, but WP is becoming popular on all sides of the spectrum, which is fine by me. Stephen Steele wrote in that famous creationist Ken Ham has a blog now. He’s also video- and podcasting.
IMAP Auth for WP
WordPress Theme Dissection
Phat FAT
Fade Anything Technique gives you the smooth “yellow fade” popularized by the 37 Signals crew. Check out this technique as well. We should roll one of these into WordPress, I can think of several situations where it’d be useful.