WordPress Hooks, Barbs, and Snags
This article is intended to help you learn how to interpret the output from the WordPress Hook Sniffer developer’s tool This article is my exhaustive study of what I thought was a simple little...
View ArticleIntroducing WordPress Hook Sniffer: a Developer Plugin
NOTE: I have not been developing or maintaining this plugin for more than four years. It has been forked by a developer who goes by the name Mirco Babini. You can find his latest version of the Hook...
View ArticleRegaining Control of Privacy and Identity: It’s up to Each Individual
This is a follow-up post to my article, Privacy in the Facebook Era. It was originally a reply to a comment by Chris Messina in that post. As this topic continues to be relevant, I’ve decided to...
View ArticleBuddyPress Featured Members Plugin Widget Re-Released
After dragging my feet for too long, I’ve finally upgraded and updated my old Featured Members Widget to work with WP/MU 2.9.2 and BuddyPress 1.2.3. The code has been entirely rewritten using the...
View ArticleThe Growing Panoply of Specialty BuddyPress Developer and Administration Tools
When it comes to the availability of useful, specialty plugins for site administrators and plugin developers, BuddyPress may be approaching an interesting inflection point. Recently, several new...
View ArticleRepackaging the Promise of the Social Semantic Web
I recently read Robert Scoble’s blog post, Privacy Reboot Needed. He makes a compelling case for the possible benefits accrued to each Web citizen that volunteers to expose their entire activity...
View ArticleThe Answer is Ebooks
One of numerous variables that are often overlooked in calculating the environmental impacts of any product replacement is ecosystem services. It is an exceedingly difficult variable to include as it...
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Thinking Outside the Privacy Box
When it comes to issues of privacy and identity, the Web continues to experience growing pains. People speak of privacy and identity management as if they were separate issues. I believe that managing...
View ArticleImportant Developers’ Notice: Please deactivate WordPress Hook Sniffer for...
If you are using my WordPress Hook Sniffer plugin, I ask that you please deactivate it at this time and remove the modified plugin.php file–the one that comes with the plugin–replacing it with the...
View ArticleWordPress Hook Sniffer v0.14 Released!
As I posted about ten-days ago, my WordPress Hook Sniffer had a cold, its sniffer all clogged up and not functioning properly. Today, I release a once-again healthy, new and improved Hook Sniffer...
View ArticleGoodbye Google Old Friend: It’s time for the Open-Source Internet
The issue of net neutrality has once again reared its ugly head, coming to a roiling boil with recent reports of Google entering a back-room deal with Verizon to end net neutrality. (more…)
View ArticleGoogle-Verizon Joint Statement Presages End to Net Neutrality
If you design websites, run a small web-based business, make money from blogging, or are launching a startup, the level playing field of the Internet is about to get very bumpy. If you think that...
View ArticleBuddyPress Beginning to Mature At the Right Time
I’ve written about social-networking fatigue in the past, and still believe that–in the long term–distributed Social Web platforms will win out over the traditional, Web2.0-styled, closed-data-silo...
View ArticleHow the Death of Net Neutrality Effects You
The potential impact of the Google-Verizon proposal to end wireless net neutrality on bloggers, niche social network owners, and ecommerce sites seems to be misunderstood or not even realized by many...
View ArticleApple Unveils Ping and Enters Social-networking War with Facebook and Twitter
During Apple’s media event today, CEO Steve Jobs previewed iTunes 10 which will include Ping, a social network for music (Ping press release). I believe this is possibly a game-changing event for...
View ArticleApple’s Ping Versus the Social Web
In my last article, I wrote about the potential impact that Apple’s iTunes Ping, their just-released social network for music, might have on other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The more...
View ArticleThe Semantics of the Semantic Web: Don’t Confuse the Concept with the Movement
This past week, another rash of the “Semantic Web is dead” cries have made their rounds at conferences (at least one) and across the Twittersphere. This is sensationalism at its best—and used quite...
View ArticleWeb 3.0: Powering Startups to Become Smartups
If you are a Web-based technology startup focused on the 2.0 version of the Web (a.k.a. Web 2.0), then you are not thinking outside of the box anymore. The Web is constantly evolving: innovating and...
View ArticleWeb 3.0 Smartups: the Social Web and the Web of Data
<Smartups Series Part 2 of 5> In the first installment of my Web 3.0 series, Powering Startups to Become Smartups, I presented a general overview of the Web’s evolving paradigm. I made the...
View ArticleWeb 3.0 Smartups: Moving Beyond the Relational Database
<Smartups Series Part 3 of 5> Today’s Web-based services are dealing with substantially higher volumes of data. But the challenges of data storage and management in the Social Web go beyond the...
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