links for 2006-01-22
January 23rd, 2006
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links for 2006-01-22
January 23rd, 2006
In Chennai
January 20th, 2006
After alomost 18 months, I am finally back on a small vacation of sorts to Chennai to meet up with Family & Friends
Am also looking forward to the 3 day trip to good ‘ol Hyderabad wherein I had spent a good 20 years of my life
Here I come …
links for 2006-01-17
January 18th, 2006
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FeedLounge has a number of keyboard shortcuts to make your feed reading experience as smooth and fast as possible
links for 2006-01-16
January 17th, 2006
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Pixelpost is a photoblog application powered by PHP and MySQL. It’s developed and maintained by photobloggers who like to keep the meaning behind photoblogging in mind, the photography
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Using in Wordpress (inside index.php of wordpress1.2 and e.g. inside sidebar.php of wordpress1.5), shows the latest image from your Pixelpost photoblog in the wordpress blog
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An addon for importing photos from Movable Types.
New PhotoBlog is now Live :-)
January 16th, 2006
My new PhotoBlog using PixelPost is now live. All those who had visited and enjoyed my MT based PhotoBlog Murali & Nandini’s PhotoBlog can now get the same pleasure here. I had to give up on the old one becuase I just got hit shit-deep with Comment spam and there was not way I could manage it 
Stay tuned for all our adventures with a Canon EOS 300V SLR film camera
links for 2006-01-15
January 16th, 2006
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Apple Vs Dell and some hints into Apple’s future : The difference is the software that is being used to create a “user experience.†That user experience is what has helped iPod gain a mass market appeal. That user experience also stems from a tight ma
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Instructions on how to Install phpMyAdmin with weblogs.us
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Script that helps you downgarde from WP 2 to WP 1.5 in case things get messed up
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WP plugins compatible with Ver 2.0
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AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0) for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed
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We asked 49 business visionaries what single philosophy they swear by more than any other — in business, life or both.
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Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) is a tagging plugin for wordpress. It allows storing a set of keywords (or as current slang dictates, tags) against posts that behave like categories – the tags can be displayed on a post, you can go to the archive page for a ta
Upgrading a WP 1.5 Weblogs.us blog to WordPress 2.0
January 15th, 2006
After much contemplation I finally made the plunge. Ever since JD’s announcement that weblogs.us would support WordPress 2.0 I was considering the upgrade, not for any speccific reason, just because. I was wondering how to get the MySQL database backed up and stuff like that … here is a quick HOWTO on doing this yourself
But before you jump right in here are 2 links that served as my guiding lights in this entire process tamba2.org.uk and wordpress.org
- First, get and install phpMyAdmin so that you can backup your MySQL database
- Here’s the Weblogs.us Forum posting that got me started with this task
- Download phpMyAdmin and unzip it on your local machine
- You have to make a copy of config.default.php and edit it to add the following
- $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ‘http://yourblogname.weblogs.us/yoursecretpath/phpMyAdmin/’;
- Please note that it is better to install phpMyAdmin in a not so easily guessable path on the server since the authentication method used is not all that secure
- Edit the following in the same file
- $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ‘192.168.1.11′;
- $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘config’;
- $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = ‘your weblogs.us login name’
- $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ‘your weblogs.us password’
- save the file as config.inc.php
- FTP upload the entire directory from your local machine to the path specified in $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']
- Once the upload is done fire up your browser and go to http://yourblogname.weblogs.us/yoursecretpath/phpMyAdmin/index.php
- You should see the phpMyAdmin admin screen
- You will then need to back up your MySQL database. Here’s a great link that explains how to go about doing this
- Next, backup your current wordpess installation files. Just to be safe, I downloaded and backedup all files (you can use the FTP access to do this)
- Deactivate all plugins through the Dashboard. I have no idea what would explode if you dont and try the upgrade, so just be good and do it
- Download the lastest WordPress 2.0 installation zip files and extract them on your local machine
- Delete the folders /wp-admin and /wp-incudes (except /wp-includes/languages if you are using it. If you blog is in english you can go ahead & delete it) on the server
- DO NOT delete wp-config.php on the root directory
- DO NOT delete /wp-content folder
- Delete all other wp*.php files on the root directory of the current install (including thngs like license.txt etc
- Create a backup of the .htaccess file by renaming it to htaccess.txt
- Upload /wp-admin from the local machine to the server (your root folder)
- Upload /wp-includes as above
- Upload all the files on the root folder to the root folder of your install on the server (files like wp-settings.php, xmlrpc.php etc)
- Upload the /wp-content/plugins, /wp-content/themes and /wp-content/index.php seperately one after another to the respective paths on the server
- I chose to overwrite the Classic and Default themes
- Also to be on the safe side, I had deleted all the existing plugins on the server
- Run the WordPress upgrade script by pointing your browser to http://yourblogname.weblogs.us/wp-admin/upgrade.php & follow simple instructions (as simple as click here and then you are done)
- I dont quite remember what it says after the upgrade is complete … but it was something short and sweet (and rather an anti-climax after all this effort)
- DONE !!!
- If you need to spice up your blog with plugins, here’s a list of plugins compatible with WP 2.0
- I have used the K2 theme with my blog and I must say that it looks rather elegant
Hope this was a useful HOWTO, leave a comment here or in the Forums in case you need any help
Cheers 
(& special thanks to tamba2.org.uk for that great HowTo on which this is based)
Update on Feb 9th 06 – Inserted instruction on configuring MySQL host in phpMyAdmin config file (thanks to JD for pointing this out)
[tags]Wordpress, Blogging[/tags]
links for 2006-01-14
January 15th, 2006
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“We are the founding members of the Content Consortium. Next month we launch our free, searchable Web site, which no outside search engines can access.”
… What if the traditional media companies decide to shut Google off and decide to take the share
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I wondered whether small was just a trend or a new organizing principle for the business world. I now think it could be the latter. Small won’t replace big, of course, but small will add up to considerable new competition. And that is because small can no
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What does that mean in terms of helping you manage your countless auctions? Well, we will manage your inventory, provide backorder reporting, and handle the logistical aspects of all your auction fulfillment. That way you can focus on listing more auction
The growing Virtualization of the Web as we know it …
January 14th, 2006
Dion Hinchcliffe puts my thoughts into words …
An important reason why the Web is now the world’s biggest and most important computing platform is that people providing software over the Internet are starting to understand the law of unintended uses. Great web sites no longer limit themselves to just the user interface they provide. They also open up their functionality and data to anyone who wants to use their services as their own. This allows people to reuse, and re-reuse a thousand times over, another service’s functionality in their own software for whatever reasons they want, in ways that couldn’t be predicted. The future of software is going to be combining the services in the global service landscape into new, innovative applications. Writing software from scratch will continue to go away because it’s just too easy to wire things together now
With the growing proliferation and adoption of APIs to create innovative mashups, we are tending towards a Web in which the big players of today would find their purpose in being infrastructure players, much like the really big telcos of today (eg., AT & T, BT etc)
With growing userbase, the sheer number of segments for which unique needs are to be catered to would make it impossible for the likes go Google, Yahoo etc to create products / services to satisfy all consumers. They would thus switch to providing the platform and the data core along with the APIs that would enable thousands of garages and start-ups to create innovative solutions using the platform to meet thousands of vertical niches
This is what I call the Virtualization of the Web as we know it and this to me is going to characterize Web 3.0. The big Web 2.0 revolution is just laying the foundation for the above
We already see the seeds for this being sown in Amazon’s announcement that they would open up Alexa’s web serach platform and APIs thus enabling others to create their own vertical search engines (a search engine for knitting anybody ?)
While search is just the first step, this kind of a model would lend itself to all other aspects of the Web – Content, Commerce etc
Creating Open Services That Last (And Anyone Can Use) (web2.wsj2.com)
Web 2.0, Google, API, Amazon, Search, Web 3.0
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