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Google Launches Instant Search Results
By Dave Moyer, posted Sep 8 2010 at 11:03 am | View Comments
Google introduced today their newest version of their search engine, featuring results that instantly display as users type, and update as they continue to add to and change their queries, continuing in their quest to speed up the process of finding answers online.
Blogger Sued Over Comments on His Blog
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Sep 4 2010 at 8:12 am | View Comments
Are you in a fighting mood? One’s Man Blog is being sued for defamation over comments on his blog – comments the blogger didn’t write. Are you at risk from libel and defamation lawsuits over the words of someone else? Is it time to fight back for our rights to protect all the content on our blogs? What can you do to protect yourself?
WordPress Plugin Directory Gets Author Gravatars
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Aug 26 2010 at 10:53 am | View Comments
WordPress Plugin authors now have their Gravatar featured on their WordPress Plugin pages in the WordPress Plugin Directory. This is a great way to celebrate and honor those who build our blogs.
Ed Morita Now Featured on NonStopHonolulu Entertainment Network
By WordCast Team, posted Aug 23 2010 at 10:53 pm | View Comments
Ed Morita of WordPress tattoo fame is now one of the select few freelancers working for NonStopHonolulu, a new entertainment and food network. He brings his popular Baker’s Hours blog to the network, as well as his wit and phenomenal talent for food writing, photography, and reviews.
WordCast Conversations 15: SOBCon Colorado 2010
By WordCast Team, posted Aug 18 2010 at 8:20 pm | View Comments
Lorelle VanFossen talks to Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker, founders of the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) about their upcoming SOBCon Colorado special event on September 17-18, 2010. They share the success stories behind the event for helping people build their online business and offer some great tips for community building and getting more comments on your site.
Review: WebRing Updated
By WordCast Team, posted Aug 17 2010 at 6:43 am | View Comments
Lorelle VanFossen takes a look at the newly updated WebRing, the grandmother of web communities. Developed in 1994, she looks at how far it’s come and where it should go as it competes with the new highly social web. Are you a member of a webring or the WebRing? Were you?
OpenCamp in Dallas Breaking All the Conference Rules
By WordCast Team, posted Aug 16 2010 at 11:22 am | View Comments
OpenCamp in Dallas is breaking all the rules found at a typical tech and web publishing conference, beginning with its unique domain name. It include sky divers, top web publishers, concerts, and mixes up everything with SEVEN tracks plus BoF sessions across two days of non-stop action.
Google Dropping the Wave
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Aug 9 2010 at 2:17 pm | View Comments
Google announced it is giving up on Wave, leaving those who learned to enjoy it and use it a bit bereft, and the rest of the world still wondering what was that thing and was it really useful?
WordPress Dropping PHP 4 and MySQL 4
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Aug 7 2010 at 4:28 pm | View Comments
WordPress has announced as of next year it is officially dropping support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 in their next releases, giving developers, Theme and Plugin authors plenty of time to prepare. Many other programs reliant upon these are doing the same.
WordPress Blog Network Super Admin Panel Under Reconstruction
By WordCast Team, posted Jul 30 2010 at 1:47 pm | View Comments
There is a discussion right now on the WordPress Development blog about the Super Admin menu for WordPress 3.0 Blog Networks. Ryan Boren, lead developer for WordPress, proposed changing the look and feel: The wordpress.org infrastructure work has reminded me how much I dislike having the Super Admin/Network Admin pages appearing alongside the regular per-blog [...]
