iPhone and iPad stuff – Most Useful Things
After a suggestion from one of the users of our plugin WP Email-to-Facebook for WordPress we have now added a new feature: two optional text fields to be added to each update. Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, Social Media, The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
When we got our page at Facebook (facebook.com/XavierMedia) we noticed a need to publish updates from our WordPress blog to the page at Facebook. Since we couldn't find any good plugins for this (doing exactly what we wanted), we simply created our own plugin. Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, CGI & PHP, Social Media, The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
We've been trying out a service called Flattr.com, which is a way of giving bloggers, and other authors/creators credit for what they produce and publish on the Internet. It should also be possible to reward people posting comments in your blog using this, but we never got it working. It's a nice idea, but will [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, Social Media, The World According to Xavier
The more I use MyXavier (our own StatusNet server) the less I mis Twitter. I have to say that a StatusNet server is so much more flexible then Twitter since you can follow people on other servers and you don't even have to sign up for an account at the other server. Continue Reading
Posted in Social Media, The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
Status.net servers like Identi.ca and MyXavier are getting more and more popular since it's possible to follow users on different servers without having to sign up at each individual server. This means that you can have an account at for example Identi.ca and follow another user at MyXavier.com without signing up for another account at [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, CGI & PHP, Social Media, The World According to Xavier, Tutorials, Xavier Media
We all hate spam in our blogs and forums and we all try to reduce the amount of spam as much as we can but this can be a lot of work for bloggers and forum owners . One way of reducing the spam is checking the IP address and the email address of the [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging, CGI & PHP, The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
After almost a year the next version of WebPage Toolbar is finally available. The WebPage Toolbar is a toolbar where you can easily look up web pages you visit directly from your browser. Some of the supported sources for web page information are Compete.com, AboutUs.org and Alexa. Continue Reading
Posted in The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
I don't know if you have heard of a service called ReTweet.com, but it's a cool service that allows you to see how many times an article, blog post or even just a tweet has been re-tweeted at Twitter. Now the guys behind ReTweet has released a WordPress plugin too Continue Reading
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