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WordPress 2.3 Beta 1

Wow, WordPress 2.3 Beta! Small problem I’ve still not migrated to 2.2 due to plugin incompatibility / instability – especially podpress. As I’ve stated before, I hope that many of these more complex plugins functionality gets integrated into the core of WordPress, reducing this painful upgrading issue.

So my question is this, does WordPress 2.3 work flawlessly with the following plugins? If not, when will if be incorporated into the main code or the plugin made compatible before release of WordPress 2.3?

Add Meta Tags 1.2
Akismet 2.0
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator 3.06
Feedburner Feed Replacement 2.2
Google Sitemaps 2.7.1
podPress 7.9 I’ve never upgraded to Podpress 8.2 or from WordPress 2.1.3 yet due to the problems reported

Recent Comments 2.1.1 beta
Related Posts
ST Add Related Posts to Feed .02
Subscribe To Comments 2.1.1
Trackback Validator 0.7.1
Wordpress PDA 1.0

Thank you for your attention to this important issue, I appreciate it deeply.

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Google to Present at the Citigroup Technology Conference

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – August 27, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)
announced today that Sundar Pichai, Director of Product Management,
and Nicholas Fox, Group Business Product Manager, will participate in
a question-and-answer session at the Citigroup Technology Conference
in New York. The session is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Eastern Time /
1:10 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, September 6, 2007.

To access the live audio webcasts of the presentations, please visit:
http://investor.google.com/webcast.html

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Bloglines Version 3.0 Beta Launched

Bloglines has relaunched with with a quicker and cleaner interface based on my short period of new usage this morning. I’m checking it out more right now. Gary Price has a nice summary of the new features at Resourceshelf and there is the official Bloglines announcement.

On a related topic, you may have noticed that I’ve relaunched my blog’s RSS feed using Feedburner’s Mybrand feature, I’ll be writing a more detailed post someday when I wrap up some last loose ends and have time.  The correct RSS feed that you should please switch to is now: http://feeds.daviddalka.com/DavidDalka

If you have a Bloglines account, please add my new feed to Bloglines. If you don’t, I’d ask that you please test out your new Bloglines account with my new feed as your test run.

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How the Credit Crunch Could be Good for Venture Capital and Other Sectors

There is discussion tonight around the blogosphere regarding the potentially positive impact of the credit crunch on the venture capital flows.

Based on the history of past cycles, like the post dot com bust and 9/11 era created the low interest rate environment that fueled the inappropriate allocation of capital to the housing market. Some would also argue this led to an overfunding of the private equity market. It’s likely a healthy development to see some of this capital shift to potentially higher return projects. The question is will they be Internet, green or mobile search/advertising related? Nobody can say for sure which one will take the lead. Fortunately, I’m in touch with some good ideas in all of these spaces if anyone is looking for early round ideas to fund.

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One Reason Why You Should Not Start a New Online Retailer

Greg Howlett over at Marketing Pilgrim has a post today entitled “Six reasons NOT to try to be an online retailer“. Some of the people who left comments haven’t agreed with the post in some areas.

I’d like to add an important reason to the conversation:

Mobile will eventually shift many online retail purchases to local purchases in the future which should eventually create a dampening of demand for the buy and ship model.

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SES San Jose 2007 Day 4 – Wikipedia, Social Media & SEO

Moderator:
Detlev Johnson, VP, Director of Consulting, Position Technologies
Search Engine Marketing Speakers:
Neil Patel, Co-founder, ACS
Stephan Spencer, Founder and President, Netconcepts, LLC
Jonathan Hochman, Founder/President, JE Hochman & Associates LLC
Don Steele, Director of Digital Enterprise Marketing, Comedy Central

Neil Patel

Why Wikipedia?
Authority links
Traffic
Branding
Information

What not to do?
Link Building
Add Biased Information
Delete Accurate Information
Break Community Rules
SPAM

They spammed. Wikipedia – Elephant population triples example

Don’t be a dick – page on Wikipedia

Develop a reputation as an editor
– Add information first, links second
– Follow the notability rule

Add images

Use other wikis…

Jonathan Hochman – Jehochman on Wikipedia

Edited Search Engine Optimization article, then it got featured

Wikipedia article can outrank the front page.

Digg is great, but it’s

Wikipedia traffic is far larger than Digg traffic

Google ip address blocked. Wikiscanner can tell what networks edited what

Don Steele, Comedy Central

Traffic volume success in SEO make wikipedia a vital channel.

Our content is highly referenced and referred on Wikipedia and Comedy Central gets a lot of traffic.

What we don’t do…

We don’t change our brand perception.

Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts

Getting your edits to Stick

You need history and street credibility.

Incorporate content edits when adding a link. It makes it harder to revert your edit.

Getting Your Edits to Stick

Add your links within References rather than External Links.

Creating New Entries – Much harder.

Participate through the talk page.

AFD and speedy delete are bad.

Mainstream media articles are preferred

Friends Social Network

Internal politics, reversion wars, ego trips, indiscriminate removal of commercial content

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SES San Jose Day 4 – Buzz Monitoring

Moderator:
Chris Sherman, Co-Chair, SES San Jose
Search Engine Marketing Speakers:
Rob Key, CEO, Converseon
Andy Beal, Consultant, Editor, Author, MarketingPilgrim.com
Jonathan Ashton, Director of SEO, Agency.com

Rob Key

Consumers trust each other the most

Social media rapidly gaining SERP Predominance and are now intertwined.

You no longer own your brand. Your brand is a conversation.

What is below the waterline of this iceberg?

You are losing control.

Conversation Mining (Buzz Monitoring)

This conversation is replacing traditional market research.

Are you listening to consumer generated media? You should be….

How do we engage this into a social media strategy.

Go across all and many forms.

It’s amazing how the conversation leads will occur.

Conversation mining provides many, many benefits.

Is this person a reasonable or determined detractor – how you treat them differently.

Andy Beal

Editor – Marketingpilgrim.com

Writing a book on this subject

Company name, executives, customers, press releases, partners, reviews, etc.

Potential Tools to Use:
Moreover.com – industry
news.google.com
Digg.com
Technorati.com
Co.mments.com
Blogpulse.com/conversation
Blogpulse.com/trend
Flickr (other photo sharing sites)
video.google.com – now a true search engine
keotag.com
wikipedia.org
oodle.com
google.brand.edgar-online.com
upcoming.yahoo.com
amazon.com/tag/iphone
google.com/trends/
searchanalytics.compete.com
copernic.com
pipes.yahoo.com

Jonathan Ashton, Director, Agency.com

Search engines magnify smaller voices.

Buzz Management now equals Brand Management

Remove top down approach to brand management

Powerful impact of consumer comment sites

Blog as a soapbox – existing entry, comment added.

Co-opetition is a key to mitigation

Maximize Your Own Site to Run Interface

Orkin has a Wikipedia page and Terminix does not.

Again, creative thinking and co-opetition.