My Wordcamp San Francisco 2008 Notes

WordCamp 2008 – San Francisco

Alan Levine – The Future of Education and WP

• Presentation – http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/WordCamp+2008

SEO Mistakes Most Bloggers Make (Stephan Spencer)

• http://netconcepts.com
• Presentation – www.netconcepts.com/learn/seo-mistakes.ppt
• SEO Title Tag WordPress plugin
• Category specific RSS Feed
• http://searchengineland.com/070823-082758.php
• No index, no follow robot

Open Source Business Models (Stephen O’Grady)

• PDF Presentation – http://redmonk.com/public/wordcamp.pdf
• Small business blogs with WordPress

LOLCats and the Secret of Virality

• Presentation – http://icanlol.com/ichc-wordcamp.pdf
• http://engrishfunny.com/
  • Embed code
    • WordPress analytics tool
    • Ratings by post

WordPress & Microformats: Past, Present, Future – Tantek Celik

• hcard
• Operator 0.9.3 for Firefox
• Coffee near…address
• Barcamp
• XFN (there is a XFN 1.1 Creator)
  • WordPress plugin
• tinyMCE plugin for hcard
• Also hcard for calendar
• BuddyPress – Facebook type app
• Getsatisfaction – Syndicates your profile information on multiple services
• DiSo
• http://scrape.singpolyma.net/profile

Switching to WordPress Painlessly – (Lloyd Budd)

• Cache images plugin by Matt Mullenweg
• http://validator.w3.org/checklink
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
• Google XML site map

450 WordPress Power User Tips – (Lorelle VanFossen)

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• Lorelle on WordPress
• Analyticator
• maintenance mode
• Firefox Greasemonkey scripts for WordPress
• Reply To From Admin Panel WordPress plugin
• Absolute comment wordpress plugin
  • planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/absolute-comments-manager-instant-reply/
    • Comment Ninja – Engtech
    • Auntie Akismet Comment Spam
    • Google Reader Preview Enhanced
      • userscripts.org/scripts/show.9455 – Allows commenting right from Google Reader
    • WordPress meetups
    • Woopra WordPress Plugin

Matt Mullenweg – State of the Word

• http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/
• 11 releases last year
• 6,541,125,189 page views last year
• 2,604,288 WordPress blogs
• 1,777,222 secure WordPress blogs
• 2/3^rd of blogs are on PHP 5
• prolog – twitter in a box
• m@mullenweg.com
• ma.tt

Get Friendly with BuddyPress – (Andy Peatling)

• @apeatling.com
• apeatling.wordpress.com
• BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.
• Private messaging
• Friends
• Albums – Extending the new WordPress albums feature
• Status updates – Extending the new WordPress albums feature
• The Wire – Let other friends or members leave comments on profile pages
• Extended profiles
• Personal blog
• Screenshots – http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/new-buddypress-theme/
• Groups
• Version 1.0 is due December ’08
• BuddyPress testdrive – testdrivewpmu.com
• BuddyPress website – buddypress.org
• SVN – svn.buddypress.org/trunk
• trac.buddypress.org
• slideshare.com
• Open data definition
• RSS
• Open Social
• Open ID

GlobalVoices – Democratizing the web through Global Voices (Jeremy Clarke)

• Technorati
• http://globalvoicesonline.org/
• http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/
• http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/

An Interview with Om Malik

• Bandwidth is the new CPU
• Gigaom Daily – http://daily.gigaom.com/
• http://dev.gigaom.com/

Riding the Crazyhorse – (Liz Danzico and Jane Wells)

• Two kinds of people – those who read the manual and those who don’t
• User focused
  • Solo blogger
  • Poweruser
  • pro Admin
  • consultant
  • Teacher