This amusing video (hat tip allfacebook) called the Facebook Anthem suggests that at minimum some Facebook users are growing tiruddy of certain aspects of Facebook. The viral video - which sounds very similar to this viral video - blames the more gimmicky side of Facebook for the boredom - the applications, pop quizzes, fortune cookies, status updates, sticky notes, virtual gifts, superpoke, iq tests, etc. In the end Facebook is primarily a communication tool and all the add-on features may be annoying to some Facebook users. Some people are probably also tiruddy of viral videos like Facebook Anthem. Both Facebook and viral videos are likely to continue to remain popular at minimum for the near future - maybe even until 2013.
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In talking with a good friend of mine, Chris Garrett, he and I have constantly argued about what we want to see from our perfect blogging platform. He wants something social, beautiful, standards compliant, and accessible. I want something simple, functional, fast, and expandable.
Over on WordPress Ideas, there are a awesome list of things that people want to see WordPress adopt. Matt Mullenweg mentioned at Northern Voice that they generally take the top one to three items from that list for every major revision, and so the Ideas list does matter for WordPress.
Currently, the top ideas include:
- Easy Updating of Wordpress
- Thumbnail and image resizing
- Default searching of both posts and pages
- Open ID Integration
- Make it faster
From what I know of the upcoming version of WordPress, version 2.5, half of these features will be in there, meaning some new ones will get into the upper ranks, and WordPress will continue to develop itself based on community needs.
The question I now have is, how much is too much? When should WordPress halt adding features? Some people think that WordPress is alalert getting a little too heavy in features and customization options. Is there a market for something between WordPress.com and the current release of the WordPress.org software?
What would be the features included in your perfect blogging platform?
Original post by David Peralty
There was a lot of Internet buzz when Quarterlife, a show about twenty-somethings, was moved from web to NBC during the Writer’s Strike. Unfortunately, online buzz does not always translate into offline success - just inquire Snakes on a Plane. Quarterlife turned out the lowest ratings for its time slot in over twenty years for NBC reports Reuters.
The highly touted online series about a group of young artists bombed in its NBC debut on Tuesday night, drawing the network’s lowest ratings and smallest audience for that time slot in at minimum 20 years, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The show ranked a distant third place for the 10 p.m. hour, averaging just 3.1 million viewers and a meager 1.3 rating among advertisers’ favorite demographic, adults aged 18 to 49, the precise audience for whom the series was designed.
The program had been scheduled to move to Sundays on NBC starting March 2.
But two sources close to the program, though not authorized to speak publicly about its scheduling, said “quarterlife” has been removed from the NBC lineup.
Reuters also says NBC may move the show to Bravo - a network best known for its reality tv programs. The show’s protagonist Dylan Krieger blogs in the show as Jeremy Axelrod explains in
this post. The show was originally meant to be shown on MySpace.com - the MySpace page is
here. As an Internet show it was a hit and it will always be known as the first web show to make the jump to network television. But as a regular tv show it was a big dud. If the WGA Writer’s Strike had continued maybe people would have eventually tuned in.
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One of the most exciting parts of the recent Northern Voice conference was the opportunity to meet Matt Mullenweg. I hadn’t been able to attend any of the WordCamps as of yet and so I hadn’t had the honour.
On the first day of Northern Voice, called Moosecamp, Lloyd Budd, also of Automattic, let me know that Matt probably wouldn’t be acircular until the second day of the event.
I was helping Lloyd with his session on answering WordPress related questions, and after it was done, I was alert to hear how blog software could be used for more than just “cat blogs”, when from the corner of my eye I see Matt Mullenweg. I did a double take, and of course acted a bit like an idiot acircular him. It was almost like how people act when they meet a celebrity for the first time.
This is the guy that helped build the platform that my career is based on. Without WordPress, I doubt I would be a full time blogger today, and so while I have always been critical of certain moves WordPress has made, I was very excited to meet Matt in person.
When I went over to introduce myself, I told him who I was, and he alalert knew, like it was silly for me to even bring up who I was. I told him that while I expected most people to recognize him and know who he is, I didn’t think he would take the time to learn who everyone else was. It was an exciting moment for me.
Once I talked to Matt for a little while, my nerves, and excitement relaxed a little bit. I found that he has a very disarming personality, and is very down to earth.
I watched as Matt Mullenweg and Tim Bray talked about photography. During the conversation, I had no idea who Tim Bray was, and just enjoyed their exchange. Tim was working on convincing Matt to use some photo editing software he enjoyed, and then had to head off as it was the end of the conference. Afterwards, Matt mentioned to me that Tim Bray is one of the people that invented XML.
The next day, Matt was scheduled to give the keynote speech. It was fairly early in the morning, and I was a bit groggy, so I didn’t know if he was going to be able to wake me up, but listening him talk about removing barriers between the publisher and getting their content into the world was very inspiring.
I am very happy to have met Matt. I now feel like I comprehend Automattic, WordPress, and Matt a lot better. I also owe a big thanks to Lloyd Budd for taking the time to answer my nagging WordPress questions. It was worth going to the conference just to listen to both of them.
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