I was thinking about this for quite some time now — an actual retweet button for WordPress, and I wonder why Twitter hasn’t provided one yet, it’s so obvious! Yes, the tweet button is doing a great job these days, but let’s admit, that we content publishers enjoy retweets more than regular tweets to our articles, because: They show your name and your Twitter avatar along...
GPL Freebies: Simple & Social Icon Set (Part 2)
I hope you all got the first part of this icon set, but even if you didn’t don’t worry, this is just an extension to that set that includes Technorati, Yahoo, Github, MySpace, Vimeo and others. And just like the first set, released under the GNU General Public License v2 — use this for any personal and commercial projects. No attribution required (although appreciated), feel...
Freebies: A Simple & Social Icon Set (GPL)
Here’s a freebie for you social media lovers — a brand new social media icon set, designed for dark and colorful backgrounds. Feel free to use this on your website or blog. This is one of my first icon sets, so I’d appreciate some comments and feedback. I decided to release this under the GNU General Public License v2 so feel free to use this for any personal and commercial...
How To: Show Off Your Social Counters in WordPress
You know it’s all about social these days, and this post is about showing off how social you are on your WordPress website. I’m sure you’re using tonnes of social networks and all of them have friends, followers, fans and subscribers metrics, but let’s start from simple: Twitter, Facebook and RSS. We’ll write code in this post, and you may ask me why. Of course there...
Every Keyboard Needs A Share Button
I thought of this idea a few days ago and tweeted it out loud too. Today I’m taking it forward and introducing it to you, my dear readers — a brand new keyboard with a share key, conceptually of course. Social media has exploded in the past few years, and what is social media without the ability to share stuff? Blog posts, videos, photos, whatever. Thousands of plugins, widgets and...
Dave Winer's Commenting Proposal
Based on a recent post by Dave Winer (RSS pioneer) called Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system. And a follow up has been posted here: Why I like comments. Briefly, the idea behind the new commenting system it is the following: Disable commenting on posts older than 24 hours Comments are invisible to other commenters until the 24 hour period expires Commenters can edit their comments during...
Now with the Facebook Like Button!
Obviously, the Facebook Like button is one you’d like to implement inside your blog, website or whatsoever. I did too, although I am quite late as everyone has theirs for ages, but why not share some thoughts about it and the whole social widgets riot? As we all know (or maybe suspect) the web is going social, and what value is your blog if your readers can’t share your article with...
WordPress 3.0, Social Media in Russia, Hiring & Coffee
So, there’s quite some interesting stuff going on around here and let’s of course begin with WordPress. Yes, WordPress 3.0 has been released, some blog posts of mine got even more visibility and I’ve been interviewed on the WordCast Conversations show – thank you so much @kymhuynh and @lorelleonwp. I don’t know when the show will air, but Kym promised to let me know...
Brand Your Tweets with Twitter Anywhere
What we’ve seen so far at Twitter @Anywhere is amazing! I’ve seen tonnes of websites implement Twitter functionality to ther websites without any hassle and it also seems to work well! Now that the documentation is being arranged, everything seems clear enough, this is yet another way of branded tweeting! Branded tweeting? Huh? Well, this is a topic covered quite sime time ago, when...
RIP Bit.ly? Twitter Will Launch Its Own Shortener
As mentioned on TechCrunch, Evan Willams at Chirp confirmed that Twitter will sooner or later launch its own URL shortener, probably called twee.tt or twt.tl (both owned by Twitter). Well, let’s just hope that they do a good job at this. I’m talking about the future functionality and the links riot going on for quite a while. It seems that more and more people and businesses are...