Rewriting Twitter for web best practices. It has some rough edges, but pretty neat.
Wall Street’s Boom
“The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.” — The End of Wall Street’s Boom.
Apple HDCP
StartUP on Current
There’s a cool 10 minute piece covering TechStars on Current TV. They were filming the day I was there talking to the companies so I have a cameo appearance a few times.
Two Thunderbird Extensions
I find there are two extensions that I install for Thunderbird every time I set up a new computer. The first is Plaxo for Thunderbird, which does a pretty good job at syncing contacts. The second is Messagefaces with Gravatar support turned on, which you can find in Add-ons > Options > Online Services. (Wish it was on by default, it doesn’t really work without it.) Plaxo has an avatar feature but I turn it off because way more people have Gravatars than Plaxo avatars.
NYTimes Sleep
3 Million
This fellow caught the WP download counter passing 3 million last night. Cool! That’s total downloads of the 2.6 series, we reset it every time we do a major X.X release.
IntenseDebate Reopens
IntenseDebate is back open to the public, and has a new WordPress plugin that does a two-way comment sync so all of your comments are always stored in your database so you can easily turn ID on and off without losing anything.
Hulu Kudos
I wanted to take a moment out to give kudos to the folks behind Hulu. Remember how much criticism and naysaying they got before and during their launch? It must feel good to have executed so well, and the content they have is really killer. You can watch all of Fifth Element, for example.
WordCamp Australia
I’ll be in Australia later this month for WordCamp Australia – if you’re in the country you should come out.
Awesome Oobjects
Oobject is “Billboard charts for gadgets” and a great example of using WordPress as a CMS. It’s from David Galbraith.
Buenos Aires Day 4
Lunch, and dinner at Novecento. (One of the better restaurants I’ve been to.) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Buenos Aires Day 3
Interview, dinner, drinks, mojitos mo’ problems. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Buenos Aires Day 2
Around Buenos Aires, Argentina.
WordPress + Education
There’s a new mailing list for discussion of WordPress and education. If you’re passionate about these subjects be sure to join the conversation.
Buenos Aires Day 1
Empanada dinner and Obama election party at Sacramento in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Facebook Fan
If you’re a Facebook user and a reader of this blog you can now add me to your Facebook. The “pages” feature of Facebook is neat because before I was conflicted because I wanted to add everyone I met at various conferences or WordPress users as a “friend” but then news feeds and such basically become unusable. I’m going to try to use it like a mailing list sending out some travel and life updates, like if I’m going to be in a particular country. Sign up here. 
Foz do Iguaçu, Argentina & Brazil
Breakfast in Brazil, the waterfalls at Foz do Iguaçu, drinks in Argentina, after-drinks back in Brazil. Lots of bugs and crawlies in the rainforest.
Brazil Meetup
I’ll be at the WordPress meetup at Latinoware tomorrow (Saturday) at 17:00. I’m speaking earlier in the day at 11:00. Been around the conference today and been really impressed with the breadth of subjects covered and the number of attendees. Confused about the logo though. (Is South America tucked into Africa?) Se você fala Português passar esta sobre a sua audiência.
Latinoware
Around the Latinoware conference in Brazil at Itaipu Binacional, and dinner at a churrascaria afterward.