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[edit] New Dashboard Design
5 December 2008, by Matt You’ve probably gotten tired of hearing about it from us, but the day has finally come and the new dashboard is finally here. It’s now immediately available to everyone on WordPress.com. Change is always tricky, but pretty much everyone who has already switched to the new design and layout (that we affectionately call Crazyhorse) prefers it [...]
[edit] 2.7 Gets Here in Two Days!
3 December 2008, by Jane Wells As promised, here is the advance notice that WordPress 2.7 is coming to WordPress.com, and will go live on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 8pm Eastern Time. That’s 5pm Thursday in California, 1am Friday in London (UTC), 8am Friday in Jakarta, noon on Friday in Sydney…find your time here. Some people like to learn how to [...]
[edit] Go Get A Blavatar
2 December 2008, by Heather Today’s post is dedicated to Chuck Norris: the man, the myth, the legend, and the star in our demo of a brand-new feature: Blavatars. “What-atars?” you say. Blavatars! Blog + avatars. As the incomparable Nikolay explains in the video below, your blavatar automatically becomes your favicon: the little icon that displays next to your blog’s URL in [...]
[edit] November Wrap-Up
2 December 2008, by Matt Howdy! — or should I say “g’day, mate!” since I’m in Sydney for WordCamp Australia? November was a fun month, and the final month of development for WordPress 2.7 — coming very soon. It’s been an exciting process, and we think you’ll become a big fan of the changes that you’ll see in your dashboards. Here [...]
[edit] Thanksgiving 2008
27 November 2008, by Heather From us at WordPress to you in the States: Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we’ll be passing the turkey and stuffing, and sharing what we’re thankful for. Such as… Jane: “Puppies and rainbows.” Heather: “Good friends, good food, and good websites.” Maya: “Cashew, Peanut, my job, my house, and the sun.” Matt: “The internet.” What about you? What has motivated, inspired, enlivened, [...]
[edit] Project Icon Winners Announced
17 November 2008, by Jane Wells Congratulations to Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert (that’s BD and VS to those of you who voted), the winning designers of our WordPress 2.7 icon design contest. Read all about it on the development blog and see how your votes stacked up to the rest. Go to The Results of Project Icon. [...]
[edit] Vote for the new WordPress icons
13 November 2008, by Jane Wells Update: Voting has closed, and the winners will be announced soon. If you watched the WordPress 2.7 trailer or checked out the screenshots that were posted a couple of weeks ago, you probably noticed the use of icons in the new left-hand navigation. A handful of designers have submitted icon sets in a competition to choose [...]
[edit] October Wrap-Up
10 November 2008, by Matt In October, we celebrated our first billion-impression month, and continued plugging away on WordPress 2.7 — along with a couple of other fun projects, to be announced. Here are last month’s stats:
323,786 blogs were created.
343,832 new users joined. 4,085,148 file uploads. 1995.86 gigabytes of new files. 531 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. 8,862,195 comments. 6,680,516 logins. 1,088,583,200 pageviews on WordPress.com, [...]
[edit] If WordPress 2.7 Was A Movie…
7 November 2008, by Jane Wells This would be our trailer. Check out some of the upcoming new features and design changes in this sneak preview video, including how to customize your dashboard, the new comment reply feature, the new navigation system, and the customizable posting screen. When you’re finished watching, take the poll below the video to tell us which [...]
[edit] The Votes Are In
5 November 2008, by Heather Here’s how you voted in our U.S. Presidential Election poll yesterday:
Barack Obama and Joe Biden: 69% John McCain and Sarah Palin: 24% Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez: 3% Robert Barr and Wayne Root: 2% Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente: 1% Charles Baldwin and Darrell Castle: 1% And here are the actual results, as of 12 p.m. PST today: Barack Obama and Joe [...]
[edit] Scientific Approach to Blog Ranking
29 October 2007, by If you had to pick just 100 blogs that would provide you with all the content you need to stay informed on everything that interests you, which 100 would you pick? cascadesinblogs And by which criteria would you determine that 100? Some clever researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University in the USA ...
[edit] Liveblogging TechCrunch 40
17 September 2007, by business2blog: I'm at the TechCrunch40 conference in San Francisco today and will be liveblogging the event. Forty startups are launching new Websites/products. Here are the standouts : Viewdle: A facial-recognition video search engine. In the Viewdle demo, they search for Brittney Spears in ...
[edit] The Next Net
24 July 2007, by bcorrell
[edit] Facebook Group Wants to Save Business 2.0
20 July 2007, by business2blog: Speaking of Facebook, ever since the New York Times reported earlier this week about the potential demise of Business 2.0 , a group has spontaneously formed on Facebook to try to save it. In the span of a few days, it's grown to more than 880 members, including folks like Walt ...
[edit] BlogsNow 8 The Next Net: Will Widgets Kill the Webpage? (Exclusive Netvibes video).
12 February 2007, by The Next Net: Will Widgets Kill the Webpage? (Exclusive Netvibes video). http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2007/02/netvibes_and_th.html since 2007-02-12 22:12:45 ... and you know first
[edit] Steve Jobs is Ready to Chuck His DRM
7 February 2007, by business2blog: DefectiveByDesign.org iPod Originally uploaded by GregoryH. In a direct appeal to consumers who feel shackled by the digital-rights management copyright protections that come with each song bought from the iTunes Store, Apple CEO Steve Jobs calls for an end...
[edit] A Million Penguins Typing
3 February 2007, by business2blog: Where's my egg? Originally uploaded by Antarctic M. How long would it take a million penguins randomly typing to produce a Hemingway novel? Book publisher Penguin is trying to find out by getting into the culture of participation with a...
[edit] ListPic: Cool Craigslist Mashup
4 January 2007, by business2blog: A new Website called ListPic is a Craigslist mashup that shows items by picture instead of by title . For many categories, like collectibles , this works because you can scan images a lot...
[edit] The LinkedIn Generation
6 December 2006, by business2blog: linked Originally uploaded by j_jyarbrough. When most people think about social networks they think about MySpace and its wannabessites where teenagers and twentysomethings try to hook up. But there's ...
[edit] Startup Watch: Workday
7 November 2006, by business2blog: PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield unveiled his latest ERP startup today. Called Workday, it offers Web-based software for human resources management. Think of it as the Salesforce.com of HR. Or PeopleSoft ...
[edit] Talking About Disruption
25 October 2006, by business2blog: For the past couple of weeks I've been putting together an impromptu roundtable tied to our current Disruptors cover story. And the response has been amazing, considering the last-minute notification ...
[edit] A Solar Thermal Power Plant for Silicon Valley
20 October 2006, by business2blog: Solar Wind Originally uploaded by Bialy-Fox. The Green Wombat reports that VantagePoint Venture Partners is planning to invest in a 100-megawatt power project in Silicon Valley:The investment is notable ...
[edit] Trimarán con propulsión solar
19 October 2006, by solarsailor-trimaran.jpg Al igual que el buque carguero ecologicamente amigable, este transbordador es propulsado por una "vela solar". Aunque no es técnicamente una vela solar, en realidad... bueno, lo es. La empresa Solar Sailor de Australia, acaba de cerrar un trato para desarrollar dos trimaranes ...
[edit] YouTube Suitor of the Week: Google?
6 October 2006, by business2blog: Last month YouTube was supposedly talking to Yahoo about selling the company. This week's rumored suitor is Google. The rumored price: $1.6 billion. YouTube is probably talking to a lot of potential ...
[edit] The Search for the Next Big Leap in Search
6 October 2006, by business2blog: magnifying glass Originally uploaded by Dr. Pat. Everyone wants to be the next Google . That's why when information about a new search startup bubbles up, bloggers are all over it. One such startup, ...
[edit] Underwater Hotels: the Poseidon vs. Hydropolis
3 October 2006, by Erick Schonfeld Poseidon Underwater hotels have long been dream projects for architects and designers, but it looks like two of them may actually be built over the next 18 months in Fiji and Dubai. The Fiji resort will be called Poseidon and cost $80 ...
[edit] SearchMash: Google's Ajax Sandbox
3 October 2006, by Erick Schonfeld Searchmash. Google is playing around with a new Ajax interface and novel search ideas at SearchMash. It gives you image results on the right, and you can drag results around if you think, say, the fourth result should be the top result ...
[edit] A Map Mashup for Predicting Elections
3 October 2006, by business2blog: Over at the Iowa Electronic Markets or TradeSports, you can bet on who will win the various state elections this November. But here is a clever map mashup put together by University of Chicago computer ...
[edit] Does the World Need Another Feed Reader? Get Real(Time).
25 September 2006, by Erick Schonfeld Realtime. Playing catch-up with the rest of the world, RealNetworks is now offering its own feed reader called RealTime. Jeff Chasen, the RealNetworks VP in charge of the product came by my office to show me a demo last week. ...
[edit] Who Will Flip First, Facebook or YouTube?
22 September 2006, by business2blog: Jake Originally uploaded by xac. It seems like everyone these days is trying to perfect the billion-dollar flip. Facebook is reportedly in discussions to sell itself to Yahoo for $1 billion, while ...
[edit] Liens du jour
25 August 2006, by La blogosphère française vue par The International Herald Tribune: quelques vérités, quelques clichés, quelques réductions hatives. Gartner a publié il y a quelques jours son fameux Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. A noter que le Web 2.0 se situe au sommet de la courbe d’évolution. Le rapport de ...
[edit] Web 2.0 Around the World
10 August 2006, by Erick Schonfeld Web20map1. In our current international edition, I got to put together a fun map of the best Web 2.0 sites from around the world. Here's a link the actual list and you can see the map in this digital version of the magazine (pp.105-109) ...
[edit] Startup Watch: ThisNext (Product Playlists)
7 August 2006, by Erick Schonfeld Thisnext. A few months ago, I wrote a Launchpad item in the magazine about a startup called ThisNext that wants to make it as easy to create and share online product playlists as it is to share music playlists. ...
[edit] CRM Synergy: "ClickZ"
22 July 2006, by ... Misty's Blog Malcolm Gladwell's Blog ClickZ 1to1 MarketingProfs Micro Persuasion business2blog Intelligent Enterprise CRM Guru digg gantthead StickyMinds Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog CDE Photography ... CRM Synergy View Technorati URL search
[edit] Some More Thoughts On Flying
17 June 2006, by business2blog: ready for take-off! Originally uploaded by Esthr. My last post was a bit rushed because I was trying to get it out before they shut down the WiFi at the Flight School conference. But at a time when ...
[edit] eBay Gets Wiki With JotSpot
14 June 2006, by Erick Schonfeld Ebaywiki JotSpot, another one of our Next Net companies, scored a big coup. It will be hosting eBay's new wiki for buyers and sellers to give each other information about the mechanics of the site. Says JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus: ...
[edit] Air Taxis and Edge Disruption
10 June 2006, by (via Anish) business2blog writes: "If you think about the air travel system as a massive network, the air taxi providers will be building their businesses at the current edges of the network. (It is at the edges where industry disruptions tend to get started). These business are all about edge ...
[edit] AllYouCanUpload: A Site for Pointing Your Photos Elsewhere
30 May 2006, by Erick Schonfeld Here's a new twist on a photo-sharing site. Cnet just launched AllYouCanUpload.com, a photo-storing site designed for people who want to post their photos on other sites or blogs. The site lets you upload photos without limit and does ...
[edit] The Rise of Myware
16 January 2006, by Erick Schonfeld What are you looking at? Originally uploaded by coda. VC Fred Wilson predicts the rise of Myware, spyware that you use to spy on yourself. He explains:. Myware is software that runs on our computers and other digital devices and tracks ...
[edit] Outsourcing Search
13 December 2005, by Erick Schonfeld Alexatm Amazon's Alexa Web crawler is opening up it search index to anyone who wants to use it and build on top of it, say a vertical search engine or a more personalized search engine. John Battelle has the details: ...
[edit] Cool Yahoo Beta
27 May 2005, by Erick Schonfeld Frog Yahoo! Research Labs has a cool beta site up called Yahoo Mindset. It is a search engine with a slider that lets you filter results. For instance, type in "frog" and you get regular Yahoo results, including the sites Frogland, ...
