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Category: Web X.0

  • Playing with WordPress 3 Beta

    One of the things that I’ve been working with in the Faculty here is rolling out a WPMU service. One of the biggest pains of the service has been that it is lagging behind regular WordPress which means themes, plugins and the rest are always “stepchildren” of the main branch. But that is no longer…

  • Facebook mobile dominates mobile web

    According to the BBC, Facebook mobile dwarfed the rest of the mobile web in usage with 2.2 billion minutes and Google and Microsoft pulling in a combined 600 million minutes in December. If you look at this UK data combined with the PEW data from earlier in the week it really suggests that the 17-30…

  • My 2010 Predictions

    Well 2009 was certainly a transitional year for the type of tech that I follow. We seem to have moved from a world with clear definitions of media type to one where those types are starting to blur. This blurring seems to be due to one factor, the shift toward ubiquitous, real time data. This…

  • GoogleDNS vs OpenDNS

    Well this week, we saw things move one step closer toward the day that Google will complete it’s mission of “organizing the world’s information”. GoogleDNS has arrived and regardless if you think 8 is lucky (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 – I think it was luck that those addresses were free at all) or not, someone is…

  • Connected with Facebook Comments TNG

    One of my laments about Facebook is that it is a walled garden, and if someone comments in FB, it’s not reflected on the blog, until now. I’ve found this cool plugin that seems to do the trick and via Gravatar, show where the comments originate. There is no support for likes right now, but…