Archive for August, 2008
The Tech Buzz Website Giveaway Winner Announced!
The Tech Buzz online technology show has announced the winner of the WebDevStudios.com sponsored website giveaway!
The winner of the contest will receive a website created by WebDevStudios.com and valued at over $1000! Stephan, the host of the show, announced the winner live on the air last night. We are excited to [...]
OpenSocial Applications Launch on Friendster
Friendster.com announced the launch of OpenSocial applications on their social network today. This will allow any application created using OpenSocial to be used directly on Friendster!
Friendster announced their own API last October. There will be no apparent difference to users between an OpenSocial and Friendster application, as both will be supported.
Open Social is a [...]
WordPress 2.6.1 Final Released
WordPress just announced the final release of WordPress 2.6.1, exactly 4 days after Beta 2 was announced.
WordPress 2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users and over 60 bug fixes to the WordPress core.
We are making plans to install the new release in our testing environment to verify there are no problems or issues [...]
WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 2 Released
WordPress just released WordPress version 2.6.1 Beta 2, exactly 4 days after Beta 1 was announced.
The WordPress Development Community is known for their amazingly quick updates/bug fixes. To date there have been almost 60 bug fixes/patches in the new 2.6.1 release, with more updates daily. This is not a critical update [...]
Corporate Blogging and Companies Who Get It
Josh Catone of SitePoint has published a great article listing the top corporate blogs on the internet.
Corporate blogs have a reputation of being dull, drab, and don’t stimulate discussion. Josh talks about some great corporate blogs that are far from dull and drab.
Josh lists 15 companies that really get corporate blogging and produce blogs [...]
Pingable Lists 20+ Royalty Free Icon Sets
Pingable.org just released a list of 20+ Royalty Free Icon Sets.
These icons are great to use on your company or personal website. Icons and images help your web pages stand out and give your readers a visual treat!
Royalty Free Icons are free to use for personal or commercial websites and are either [...]
Chris Brogan on Creating a LinkedIn Profile of the Future
Chris Brogan, a Social Media Specialist, wrote a great post detailing how to create a LinkedIn profile of the Future.
LinkedIn is a valuable social networking site in the business world. Easily manage and connect with colleagues past and present, clients current and future, friends, co-workers, peers, and more.
Chris explains how LinkedIn isn’t [...]
Twitter Labeled the Hottest Web Startup by CNN
CNN released an article detailing why Twitter is the hottest web startup on the internet today.
Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows members to post short and meaningful 140 character updates on what they are doing.
CNN does a good job explaining Twitter to anyone who hasn’t used the service before. Twitter has [...]
Rackspace Hosting Goes Public
Rackspace Hosting, a San Antonio based website hosting provider, went public on Friday.
Rackspace is the second venture-backed technology company to go public this year. ArcSight had its public offering on Feb 14, 2008. 48 venture-backed tech companies went public in 2007, according to the National Venture Capital Association.
Rackspace was founded in 1998, and has been [...]
bbPress Announces Alpha Series Release
bbPress just announced their bbPress 1.0 Alpha Series release!
bbPress is a powerful open source forum software package created by Automattic. Automattic is the company who also created and released WordPress.
bbPress is best known for being a light-weight forum framework, opposite of most forum packages out there. bbPress id developed [...]
