My Wordcamp San Francisco 2008 Notes

WordCamp 2008 – San Francisco

Alan Levine – The Future of Education and WP

SEO Mistakes Most Bloggers Make (Stephan Spencer)

Open Source Business Models (Stephen O’Grady)

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)

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

Get Friendly with BuddyPress – (Andy Peatling)

BuddyPress @ WordCamp

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  • @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)

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