WordPress 2008.16.08
Slides of previous WordCamps
Flickr w/ WordCamp Tag
Mission Bay Conf Center @ UCSF

2008.SF.WordCamp Conference - Notes(raw)
(Notes are from User track talks)
(Couldn't attend Dev track)

11.30 - Tantek Celik (Blog)
~MICROFORMATS~

microformats - (technocrati) 1.2b microformats
H-Card - company website - copy/paste info

'add to address book' -click - boom into your contact/address book.

a lot of users here are/run companies - have contact info find useful

ex of microformat - plugin 'operator 0.9.3'
--- all of us have firefox - but almost no on have operator installed

we miss and dont see all the microformat because w/ dont have the plugin - operator reveals all the contact info on pages and allows you to interact w/ it
search for coffee on google-maps and see the amount of info you gain w/ the plugin

barcamp --- upcoming scedule look at it or subscribe to the h-calander - h-calander microformat (ICS format)
Event site, or buisness about specials - very helpful

GMPG and XFN introduced in 2003 -
- future of blogging conference
    i have blogroll i want to markup sidebar links with tag showing friend,
xhtml freinds network - lookup -
xfn - shows who of you're blogroll is w/in SN of yours.

link manager supports xfn
category feature supports ref tag - built in to WP
wordpress theme on microformat wiki -
wp-theme directory that have microformat -

TinyMCE plugins -
--offer hcard & hcalender

Wordpress on cutting edge on marking up webpages - benefits - good symantic markup helps w/ page ranking
semantic publishing
people marked up from linkdin manage address book
- integrating across applications and 'suggesting' way forward and then autocomplete it -
contact api for gmail addressbook for example - will let you know to input names automatically ---faster publishing

Social network hub
    BuddyPress - a lot of folks heard of it-
    excellent project - 'facebook in a box' any group organization that wants to admin SN can do so w/ BuddyPress... just want to run for yourself, for your companies, about page w/ workers, buddypress can represent this, w/ separate profiles. removing the silo

Personal Hub
    profile syndication - here is my SN profile on my own site, then you can use sites (Get Satisfaction - http://getsatisfaction.com/)
        get my (flickr, any) profile, spare me time of uploading and typing the address....this circumvents this. takes username from otherservice - use that hcard and use that)
- put in your own url - and pulls it from there. syndicate my profile from x site to this site - so all is changed when you update one page, rather than have to update individually
'social network fatigue' the pain in arse that it is to change all profiles -

DiSo
crawling to see xfn markups. index all of them as well as hcards...run a search for a name to see the results - find the person, and all of those person's social networks and contacts from all those sites - in there only once, even though they span across many sites. multiple hcards showing different images and profiles all showed in this search w/ DiSo - search engine that indexs profiles across sites...

Conversation 

1:00pm- Lloyd Budd (Blog )
~Switching to Wordpress ~

Atompub Importer-
Want to switch? (Talk not for new bloggers starting w/ WP)

--1-content, 2-urls, 3-design (typical process of switching)
--Back up your files - number one thing to do from the get go
--Manage > Import - list of other blog software to help switch
--not in the list - export to one w/in the list, still not able, google it(search), still not, raise a stink: blog about it...web 2.0 should there be no reason for not being able to do so

importer - only takes care of posts, not images
images - paid service-wordpress gallery-image plugins
design - PHP programmer? no, not the case w/ WP. Pretty much CSS & HTML. Template pages are PHP, but if you base you're theme on those,you'll just need to tweak the css/html(wordpress.org/extend/themes) thousands of themes out there. ~150 WP w/ good/clean code (others out there may redirect you or not have clean code on the backend)
widgets - sign up google webmaster tools...


1:20  - Lorelle VanFossen
-450 WordPress Power User Tips-
SEO value?
Future comments (timestamping prior to publishing date/time)
Cannot function on your blog w/out - SEO title tag, SEO all in one, apture, 75 was highest # of plugins on one WP site)
UK Gov blog is none other than WP
Firefox Greasemonkey scripts are great w/ WP
WP comments suck - absolute comment WP plugin -
Comment Ninja - Engtech-Internet Duct Tape Marketing
Auntie Akismet Comment Spam (countering Spam - sorts it, any redundancy will collect, summarize for you, showing you the bot that is common, grouping it)
Google Reader Preview Enhanced - all bloggers need this
WordPress Themes
    -WordPress Theme Directory -rocks
    -We need to push WP Themes MORE
    -Template Tags, Conditional Tags, Functions...EXPLORE
    -New Inline Documentation by Peter Westwood, Jacob Santos, Mark Jaquith
WP Community
    -Get involved w/ the WP community, do your best work, give it away, and universe will be rewarded

Check out:
Planetozh
Woopra WP Plugin (Beta version, need invitation to it)

1.40pm -Sam Bauers - Automattic
~Hassle-Free Upgrades~
Hosted- edublogs
cd/var/www/root


2.00 pm Matt Mullenweg (blog )
Coverage TechCrunch
~State of the Word~

2 to 11+million downloads
expanding platforms - fbook, twitter, etc - but not at the expense of blog/blogs/blogging

20-35mil new posts over year.used to be able to read all wp posts, not anymore
1.6-6.5 billion pages views (each person in the world visited WP, ha)

Spammers - 99.925% accuracy, 5billion caught - Aside: Spammers are clever.
compliment spam - most effective today, go and grab something from your title, and then incorporate it w/in comments to your blog, this is spam. (Sounds like its from your mom) Nice sandwich post today, etc...look at url...(are kids around, beware)

WordCamps - 9 WC in past yr, but 14 coming up all over world. 50-300/400 people. Self organized, user driven. No official involvement w/ WP/Automattic. estimate 4-5k go to WP/camps around world, more than the once a year software kinds...different cultures/people etc...
ex: 10k bloggers in Greece...very interesting location

70+k WP iphone app install

Behind the Scenes
--theme directory

World premiere:
--Wordpress Zeitgeist
    2.6m WP.org Blogs
    versions #s...
    1.7m secure blogs 2.5.1 or higher version
   
--PHP language behind WP...
    v4-800k, 34%
    v5-66%
--T10 Plugins
    free market of features. 145. openid plug. 24.adsense-manger plug, 12. hello dolly plug, 10.cforms, 9. wp-polls, 8. WP auto upgrade, 7. wp-cache, ... 1.Akismet  - (avg. 4.96 plugs/blog)

Top 1290 plugs installed. Active 526 of those. We want better plugin stats...

2009 Theme(s)-
-Upgrades. - b/c WP being treated now as a platform - need up-to-date, security, etc...
-Community - help upgrade, etc
-Web hosts -
-In-core
-Security/upgrades
-Multi-modal ...WP as a hub....hubpress?
-BuddyPress...- WP or SN in a box. Employee directory, replace old-school silo ones w/in corporations....set of plugins you can put together and create this. Aim to have all done end of year.
-Fashion&Tattoos...cooler shagwear, clubbing tshirts. WC Philippines has coolest shirt.
-Crazyhorse!

3.15ish Andy Peatling  Twitter
Slides
Coverage:
GigaOm
WebWorkerDaily
~Get Friendly w/ BuddyPress ~

What is BuddyPress ? Aim - 'transform vanilla installation of WP MU into a SN platform.'

Idea came from chickspeak.com

Is it a huge plugin?

The Core + 9 other components. But you only need the Core to run BuddyPress.
-Extended Profiles: complete custom profile pages w/ fields set by site admin(s)
-Private Messaging -internal site msging b/w friends awa site wide notices.
-Do we need another SN? We need:
BuddyPress helps/provides this for anyone who wants to incorporate it.

Potential for BP -

Why use WP?
    -Fantastic app framework

Links -

testdrivewpmu.com
svn.buddypress.org/trunk
trac.buddypress.org
tinyurl.com/6ee7jo
#budddypress


3.50pm Jeremy Clarke

~Democratizing the Web throughGlobal Voices ~

Problems w/ blogs:
  • way to much to reads
  • photos of lunch
  • breaking news is invisible (blogs are writing things you cant get from media - we trust foreign correspondents, who don't live there, may not speak the language or know of anyone who lives there - so bloggers are alternative to resource for information)
  • technocrati is just okay
  • About Global Voices - founded by Berkman Center of Harvard
  • GV Summit in Budapest, Hungary (Slides/Presentations )

GV's
  • translation
  • read for you
  • no lunch reporting
  • something happening - we are already listening
  • deal w/ technocrati for you

-Anonymous Blogging -
    - Tor + WP
-Helping to Blog -

English != Global - complaint = only readers who know English can read it. Why isn't GV in other languages? Not anymore.


4.20 A Conversation w/ Om Mailik

~On Publishing Technology, and Life~

GigaOM
GigaOM Daily
Dev GigaOM
Revision

Format: ?s/Answers

Knowing if you fail, you are to blame. = blog/blogging
? 14yrs in tech - excite Om / everymorning its different.

? most fundamental shifts / broadband is now a platform, allowing others to become platforms i.e. WP. next level the high speeds, today = 5-6mb/s soon 100-150mb/s despite the duoppoly. ohter countries do have it now, like Japan. New platforms on this speed and new media will become more mainstream and used to interact - videos for example. Skype, existed b/c everyone had a broadband access, same w/ youtube. What is next is the answer of what we will do w/ all this new speed. more and more activity will move to the cloud. you will not think twice of doing big things

?what is happening w/in these countries w/ these highspeeds / we need to look at how heavy their usage of SN and video - most of them have their apps on the cloud - using Skype, online gaming, etc...can't make this happen w/out bandwith

?other emerging markets where interesting things are happening / India, no idea. China, seems like we gave up on them. In India they are pushing a lot of IP tv and imacs (?).

?tech wise, what drives are being used most to impact / big impact is the bandwidth, internet age, bandwidth is what processors were in the pc age. 2015/2020 new types of semiconductors, photonic chips, letting you massage optimal signals like todays chips allow you to massage electronic signals. w/ this it will allow modeling and computer usage in new ways. UI will be a big shift, b/c of hyper connection

dream of building computer chips that use light signals rather than electricity more...

? Tips to blogger that are trying not legally liable, and being respected / make it come from your head, you read other people's stuff, you write your own. Block quote is cliche. Write your own ideas, but do give credit to the originator.

? your company is media but also tech / GigaOMdaily is realtime link blog meets newswire. basically get so much news from twitter, being able to file info into headlines w/ twitter style msg. update in realtime. & Gigalogue = (Inspired by Prologue, GigaLogue is a template and plugin set that allows a standard WordPress blog to create and consume content with Twitter, RSS, or email. It can be used to quickly create group or log pages around a variety of different content sources.)

4.50ish: Jane Wells & Liz Danzico

~Riding the Crazyhorse ~


2 types of people - "paradox of the active user"

Lasers -Face Recognition software and plots it w/ laser to show where eyes are.
Media Insight Center, NY
Usability review of 2.5

Action oriented to verb

-Crazyhorse Demo may != what outcome will look like- better dashboard, inbox, quickpress, -stats. Write new post - new - right hand area & two column area, being used for content  rather than function. Publish/Post/Preview moved to the bottom. No one was seeing comments screen.