WordPress 2.5 is Out!

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Eric Marden
on March 29, 2008
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This may be the biggest upgrade to WordPress since the jump from 1.5 to 2.0. There are numerous changes on the front-end and the back-end. The admin panel has probably seen the most radical changes, as it has been completely redesigned from the ground up. And they redesigned wordpress.org to boot! So that’s why it took 6 months for v2.5 to come out… :)

A quick round up of the new features:

  • Multi-File Uploading
  • Upgrade Plugins with a single click
  • Photo Galleries
  • A Dashboard you can Customize
  • Salted Passwords and Encrypted Cookies to increase the security of the project
  • A Media Library of all your uploaded assets
  • A WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess up your code (zomg!)
  • Protection against Concurrent Post Editing
  • Writing in Full Screen Mode
  • And a search engine that covers both posts AND pages (long the domain of a plugin)

You can read all about it in the official announcement.

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War of the Worlds

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Eric Marden
on March 23, 2008
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There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven’t yet notice. It is a war not about technology but because of technology, a war over how we as a culture embrace technology. It is a war that threatens venerable institutions and, to a certain extent, threatens what many people think of as their very way of life. It is a war that will ultimately and inevitably change us all, no going back. The early battles are being fought in our schools. And I already know who the winners will be.

This is a war over how we as a culture and a society respond to Moore’s Law.

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You Sucjk at Photoshop

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Eric Marden
on January 5, 2008
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Netscape Dead at 14

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Eric Marden
on January 4, 2008
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AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be,” he writes. “Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reigns fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.

Who is really still using Netscape in the day and age of Firefox 2? More about this story here.

The Google Enigma

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Eric Marden
on December 31, 2007
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Google-As-A-Giant-Robot

Whenever a company becomes wildly successful in a brief span of time, it naturally becomes an object of fascination for corporate executives and even the general public. More than that, it comes to be presented as a new model for business success. Reporters and scholars scour its history and its practices, looking to distill general lessons for other firms to copy. Google is no exception.

For all its success, Google is still a young company, and it has yet to be tested by adversity. We don’t even know whether its approach to management, and in particular its approach to innovation, is a cause of its success or a product of its success — a crucial distinction.

Interesting stuff. More here.