WordPress turned 6 on January 24. From the original Blogging Software Dilemma post by Matt back in 2003:
What to do? Well, Textpattern looks like everything I could ever want, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be licensed under something politically I could agree with. Fortunately, b2/cafelog is GPL, which means that I could use the existing codebase to create a fork, integrating all the cool stuff that Michel would be working on right now if only he was around. The work would never be lost, as if I fell of the face of the planet a year from now, whatever code I made would be free to the world, and if someone else wanted to pick it up they could. I’ve decided that this the course of action I’d like to go in, now all I need is a name. What should it do? Well, it would be nice to have the flexibility of MovableType, the parsing of TextPattern, the hackability of b2, and the ease of setup of Blogger. Someday, right?
from Find Misspelled eBay Auction.
A standard way of saving money when buying on eBay is to find auctions that come with misspelled titles and descriptions. Someone selling a Playtation 3 will probably most likely earn less than someone who is selling a Playstation 3.
Auction Bloopers is a website that will search for misspelled auctions on various eBay marketplaces including eBay.com, eBay.co.uk and eBay.com.au. The standard search requires you to enter the correct spelling of what you’re searching for. The site uses common misspellings to build and run a search query against the selected eBay site. For example, using Playstation found over 80 auctions at eBay.com.au.
There’s advanced options that can be used to exclude search terms from the results. Only the title of an auction is searched, but because the result is given to you as an ebay web page, you can easily extend the search to include the description.
from Cats Who Code. All 3 methods use Output Buffering, but I prefer the look of the Reinhold Weber method, as it
a) doesn’t require renaming CSS files, and
b) allows you to use PHP code to remove whitesace and comments
from The Next Web, a usefull methodology that will generate a different password for every site you visit.
Step 1) Pick one alphanumeric password you know you will always remember. Something like: “tuca3212″
Step 2) From now on just remember that above alphanumeric password and add the first 4 letters of every sites name before (or after) that above password.
Obviously, you can change the number of letters / characters you use in step 2, and don’t forget to allow for special characters (perhaps in Step 1 ??)
In December 2008, the Pew Research Centre reported that, in the USA at least, the internet has “surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news.”
Currently, 40% say they get most of their news about national and international issues from the internet, up from just 24% in September 2007. For the first time in a Pew survey, more people say they rely mostly on the internet for news than cite newspapers (35%). Television continues to be cited most frequently as a main source for national and international news, at 70%.
But TV broadcasters can’t be complacent. Among the under-30s polled by Pew, internet and television use for national and international news was just about equal. That’s a huge change from last year, when TV was almost twice as popular as the net in this age group.
From the Favrd about page.
If you see Twitter as a venue for public relations or marketing, or as an audience eager to hear news of a post on your ‘blog’, or a rich hot sticky vertical, or if you consider yourself a web strategist, or if you talk earnestly about social media, or if you can read Techcrunch or listen to the Gillmor gang with a straight face, it’s very unlikely the things you say on Twitter will show up here.
Usually, when you delete a friend in facebook, it happens silently in the background and chances are they will never know you deleted them.
But the Whopper Sacrifice Campaign turns this upside down. If you Sacrifice (delete) 10 facebook friends, you get a free Whopper. The downside (there is one ??) is that these sacrificed friends will be told loud and clear that you sacrificed (deleted) them in exchange for a free hamburger.
I’m curious about how the campaign stops you from deleteing, then re-adding, the same ten friends over and over. I’m also curious about how many friends DO get readded afterwards – in other words, will this reduce the network connectivity within Face book ?