Twitter comes to Berlin
At the end of January, Twitter will present new develops in Europe’s Silicon Valley and my home town Berlin:
The social networking giant, in conjunction with Early Bird Venture Capital’s Ciaran O’Leary and Nikolas Woischnik’s TechBerlin, will be at Mobile Suite in Prenzlauer Berg on Thursday January 26, from 6pm-9pm.
Here the Berlin Twitterati will discuss the latest platform developments and an overview of the Twitter API suite. There will also be an in-depth technical session, followed by demos by Berlin startups, including Soundcloud (on how their products integrate with Twitter).
WordPress-Plugin – Pin, organize & show your favorite places through OpenStreetMap
Mapsmarker is a WordPress plugin by Austrian WordPress Guru Robert Harm.
The WordPress plugin “Leaflet Maps Marker” allows you to pin, organize & show your favorite places through OpenStreetMap on your blog and via different APIs on external websites or apps.
There are plenty of applications which can be built on top of mapsmarker, so certainly an interesting plugin to watch in the future.
How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress – Smashing WordPress
A recent article How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress – Smashing WordPress is helpful for wordpress theme designers.
It describes how custom taxonomies can be used for specific categories, such as location-based taxonomies. It also explains how to write specificic templates for each taxonomy and which functions are available for these new wordpress features.
The author concludes
Whether hierarchal or multifaceted, a well-implemented taxonomy will simplify the way content is organized and displayed on a website. WordPress has all of the tools you need to create custom taxonomies and to group your content in new and exciting ways.
I agree.
Jetpack now available for self-hosted websites
Apparantly, the WordPress.com feature-package Jetpack is now available for self-hosted blogs as well. I am going to test it on this blog.
Most used WordPress pluings
Unsurprisingly, the most used plugins are Analytics, Bookmarking- and Adsense – Knowledge, Sharing, Earning.
10 of the most popular (and useful) WordPress plugins | Royal Pingdom.
Strange GoogleAdWords
Sometimes I have the impression that GoogleAdWords really tries to fool its customers. They sent me a 100 Euro voucher for testing an Adwords Campaign. However, for signing up to Google Adwords, they charge a non-refundable 5 Euros as a “registration fee”.
Diigo synch with WordPress
For a few days I am using Diigo for my bookmarks – quite convenient because I can bookmark sites on my iphone. Now I am looking at ways how to publish certain bookmarks on my blog – and here we go: Diigo offers its own service for that. Nice job!
Multiple amazon astores with one account?
The Blogtrainer uses an Amazone-astore-Account-Id for each of his blogs. I was wondering – is it possible to have several Astores with one Amazon-Account. After 30 minutes of research – no answer yet. Only hints that this might come one day. Amazon does not give an answer in its FAQ. Strange.
iphone at UNFCC
The UNFCC Coference in Copenhagen was notably not only for its tremendous success in reaching a global climate deal, but also for as far as I know the first international conference that utilised an iphone application.
Unfortunately, the app does not seem to have been updated since then, but the idea is indeed quite good. Let’s see how things will be at the next conference in Bonn.
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