I have been pitching this idea of a distributed social network to everyone that can stand to listen to me. I realize that the conversation around WordPress and the future of social networking is heating up, but as it does I think it is important to begin thinking about implementation. It is fun to philosophize,…
Category: internet
Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE
I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you can’t count a couple thousand users as especially successful. When Open Social started up I felt like I needed to go sign up for a…
Kill Internet Explorer With CSS
We got a call today at The Plan Collection that was interesting. A guy was trying to print out one of our pages. Each time he tried his browser would crash. At first I thought, “that is just nuts. Html can’t crash your browser.” Then Jake tried it and it crashed Internet Explorer. Then I…
WordPress Multiuser Extensions
I didn’t just want to setup a WordPress Multiuser site. I also wanted to be able to use multiple domains. Here’s the plugin to make that happen. Setting up the multi site manager plugin might not be obvious. Here’s some more information about the plugin. That’s everything you’ll need.
Utah WordPress Meetup
I spent this afternoon with some really cool and interesting individuals from around utah. Matt Mullenweg, the original developer of WordPress was in town and was willing to come and hang out, each lunch and chat for a couple of hours about anything. Matt is a very cool guy not only because he created the…
Email Sucks
In a job interview a long time ago I was asked what I hate to do the most. At the time my response was, “write USB device drivers.” I had to do that at Sorenson Vision and I hated it. When you write device drivers you can really mess up a system. You screw up…
Godaddy EPP Code
I keep trying to setup new websites because I like to pollute the internet. Ok not really, but I want to setup another domain on my bluehost account because I can have as many as I like and I figure that the world could use more of my blather. If you are transferring a domain…
Internet Failure
By total chance I found this article about the internet failing in two continents. This hurts the economy of several Middle Eastern and African countries which sucks. Wasn’t the point of the internet to create a distributed communications network that could withstand a nuclear war? What happened?