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Total geek love. Give Jay-Z a neck beard and Alicia Keys big, bad frames and this is what you get. I don’t think you jam any more nerdier into this one. Web 2.0 anthem. Good stuff.
This video says everything I think needs to be commented on. I like helping people but then there is…
From Podcast to Print by JC Hutchins
On how you leverage your content by giving it away to garner an audience and earn a living from it. Podcasted his book, gave away pdf’s and got more work. Your content has value so take care of it.
Buy his book, here or below
Pics from the Flickr Group so far:
More nifty bits. @jpeterson created a twitter list of attendees: http://twitter.com/jpetersen/wordcamporlando/ . And Chris Scott created a new WordPress Usersgroup for O-Town. Join up to learn and talk. He has slides from his talk at the bottom.
Here’s my notes for the last two tracks:
FAIL: Why Online Products Don’t Succeed Dan MAccarone, Hardy Candy Shell & Adnrew Zipern, Rocket Fuel
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have asked for a faster horse” – Henry Ford. BS, used to justify things that have no opportunity. Keep in mind he did create something that went faster than a horse. Implication is need to parse the needs heard from computers.
New success is cloaking complexity in simplicity. See Apple, new Google homepage.
Bad stuff, too many features:
Good Stuff:
Google hiding under simplicity:
The complexity revealed after a mouse movement:
Evolution:
- Friendster > MySpace > Facebook
Startac > Palm w/ cell > iPhone
Success despite bad design: MySpace, YouTube, Craigslist
Examples what got it right: hulu, netflix, iphone, google, pentacle, foursquare
Fail comes from feature creep, lack of single and simple vision or forced opportunity.
Buddypress – John James Jacoby
Bigger than WordPress MU
New features coming
- find help: http://buddypress.org/forums/
- update to help: http://codex.buddypress.org
- bug tracking: http://trac.buddypress.org
originated as a user profile plugin
Sites using buddypress:
http://tdi.vw.com/leaderboard/
http://pro.gigaom.com/
http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/
Slides from Chris Scott’s “You’re Doing It Wrong”
You’re Doing it Wrong – WordCamp Orlando
View more documents from Chris Scott.
Here is the first bits of Wordcamp Orlando goodness from the morning sessions. You can also check out the google wave feed, just search [ with:public wordcamp orlando ]. Will add more photos from the Flickr pool and any videos as I go along.
People Are The Killer App from Geno Church and Eric Dodds
WordCamp Orlando 2009 – Geno Church, originally uploaded by seanosh.
People don’t trust ads, they trust people.
90% of word of mouth is done person to person, keller fay talk track report 2009.
“Reframe the conversation”. campaign vs. movement. campaign has beginning and end, movement goes on as long as people want, C – war language, M – about moving people, C – tired and ignored, M – about exciting people, C- about listen to me, M – about being apart of something
Create a barrier to entry to “get some skin in the game” for members. Keeps total numbers down but up the passionate participants to near 100% level.
Essence: allow the community to take hold and ownership of the community itself. Allow the community to develop itself and drive leadership and vision from within. Use community as tool to discover real marketing slices and to develop products directly from inout of those passionate about the product. Sales increased in affected areas,
build it like money will run out tomorrow.
Slow build = sustainibilty
High Performance WordPress – Barry Ambramson
WP is Fast and Scalable
Runs through the versions of installed WP, servers and types of hosting etc
WP Supercache is good
VPS [virtual private server]
- PHP Opcode Cache: renders code and then caches it so it doesn’t have to compile again [x cache, etc]
- WordPress persistent object cache
- CDN
From other tracks:
Oops, we sucked it up on your AppleTV 3.0, originally uploaded by funkeemunkeeland.
So they made the suckage prettier and now they must have hosed it. I didn’t notice this issue in the midst of all of its suckage from before
So I got my instant party from Microsft for my Windows 7 House Party. Since all of you can’t come, I share the goodies I got.
First the box
The goods are neatly packed inside. I was aepecting bigger but there was a good amount of stuff in it.
The promised fun stuff: Cards, puzzle, streamers and napkins. Woo Hoo!
Now for the paper spam. Interesting that it includes antivirus ads for two products and a reminder for Zune.
But the bags do rock. Killer design.
I posted more pictures up at the flickr.
I ran across this site off of a professors site that linked to her personal blog and this was one of four links in her “Links” section. What was linked was her fertility chart page. Before you get cranky about me digging in her stuff, do the math. This was three clicks and a few scrolls from the main course site for her students. I was only there because of interest in the online course offered by the school and ones she taught.
While I see the purpose of community and the benefit from sharing information. Especially something like fertility and the pressures from problems [not] having kids. The more information and support the easier things are to get through. But… linking to your chart is just as bad as the next person tweeting their poop schedule. Why the hell do we have to know. Should this be one of those things that is automatically private, members only, top secret, need a password.
I did check the site out while I was feeling self-righteous. Highlights:
The games is a nice interesting touch. Check out the pac man rip-off as you get to move around devouring sperm [for real, pac man swallows]. They seem to be forward thinkers having their iPhone app ready. Curious to know if it is to post, share or check out other peeps flow/not-flow.
Check out the keywords, seems like a lot of really personal and medical info just plopped out their. This also lands in territory you don’t want your boss to see. Add that to the random photos of you licking a strangers ass at the last Halloween party makes for an interesting conversation about a promotion. “So, I see your trying to get knocked up huh. How’s it going? And by the way, was that chocolate?”
My job has meant that my personal views and posting are tempered to a degree. But I also don’t link here from anything school related. I am private on the social junk. Admittedly these things are a google search away but that requires effort and intent. When you make the breadcrumbs too large to ignore you are out there way too much.
But I think it also makes you think about the social networks we use for the normal stuff and whether the privacy settings should be tighter to start with. Oh, well. I will be posting both my poop schedule and my fertility chart in the next week for those interested.
“Buy your tickets on the online”
[send this to your parents so they learn]
Enjoy!
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