Matt Kelly (and many others) have put together an official Facebook Integration for WordPress plugin, which is available in the directory as of today. Glad to see the company becoming involved directly in the WordPress community, and excited to see what’s next in that regard.
Link Archives
Cryptography breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists — I find the shadow cyber-war being fought right now endlessly fascinating, and a nice opportunity to brush up on CS concepts I haven’t thought about in a while.
Mark Jaquith writes How I built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!” — a nice overview of the latest and greatest in modern WP development.
Smithsonian Magazine has a great article on Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, discussing Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack.
Paul Ford on Facebook and Instagram, hilarious and insightful.
The Olive Garden restaurant making the rounds a few days ago was actually from the mother of a WSJ writer, here’s his take: When Mom Goes Viral: Marilyn Hagerty, 85, Is Talk of Social Media.
The problem with investing based on pattern recognition by Chris Dixon, +1.
Women 2.0: Stop Sabotaging Your Own Success: A Manifesto, by Automattic’s own Sara Rosso.
A surprisingly candid and funny report from CES, Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter.
WordPress (and Tumblr) got a name check by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show the other night. 🙂
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.” He also famously remarked that all of man’s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Check out the new WordPress for Android 2.0, it’s a bottom-up redesign of how our mobile apps can work.
Where are they now? The Vancouver riot Kissing Couple. Crazy story, and apparently not a hoax like I had heard before.
Dave Kashen on building a values-driven startup on GigaOM.