Facebook Connect YOUR BLOG

With integration of profiles with personal blogs, it’s kind of a toss up between Google and Facebook. It looks really easy and I like how it appears to be so customisable. I’ll need to do more research into this, but  I’ll implement this as soon as I can find the free time. Then again, someone might beat me to it and build an awesome WordPress plugin so I won’t have to do a thing.

via Mashable

More at the Facebook Developer Site

Quick WordPress 2.7 Thoughts

WordPress 2.7 is a very different beast from it’s predecessors.

Well there are changes to the front end, like a more advanced comments system and I’m sure a countless number of little enhancements, but front ends are the domain of the visitor and theme developers. Let’s look at WordPress from the perspective of a user. After all, us bloggers are the ones who will end up most affected by these updates.
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Open Social Networks

We’re seeing a lot of networks make their data publicly available through APIs: Twitter, Flickr, Brightkite and the lot all allow people to use and manipulate data as well as in some cases insert data, effectively allowing people to use their service without even having to visit their site. Data that would otherwise have been isolated and network-centric has now become freely available to all. After all, data doesn’t like to be lonely either.
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