Facebook profiles are like belly buttons: Everybody’s got one.
Perhaps that statement’s still a bit of an exaggeration, but by the numbers, we (that is, Internet users around the globe) are becoming more obsessed with Facebook by the day.
One out of every 13 Earthlings and three out of four Americans is on Facebook, and one out of 26 signs into Facebook on a daily basis.
We could rattle off stats like until the cows come home, but instead, we’d like to show you this fascinating infographic from SocialHype and OnlineSchools.org. MORE
WordPress Auto-Embed Video Hosting Service Videos: You Tube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, blip.tv, Flicker, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scibd, PhotoBucket, PollDaddy, Google Videom, and VideoPress-type videos from WordPress.tv.
Tracktor Bowling – Edge
A music video for Russian band “Tracktor Bowling”
Directed by Daniel Salhov
Produced by Dmitry Kovalenko & Vladislav Pasternak
Director of photography Daniel Salhov
Edited by Daniel Salhov
VFX by Gennady Chistyakov
www.hhg.ru/edge
Tracktor Bowling – Edge
A music video for Russian band “Tracktor Bowling”
Directed by Daniel Salhov
Produced by Dmitry Kovalenko & Vladislav Pasternak
Director of photography Daniel Salhov
Edited by Daniel Salhov
VFX by Gennady Chistyakov
www.hhg.ru/edge
I am experimenting here the Plugin Hana Flv Player WP Plugin v2.5. The results are pretty sweet. Get it into your WordPress site through your Plugins panel (add new). Then get a quality flv file. You can make flv files from video files with Camtasia Studio 7. You can also download flv files or MP4 video files with your browser. Attribute the videos authors if doing this. Upload your flv file into a folder (directory) called something like “moviefiles”. Put a kick-out index file into the folder that has some code to tell the spiders not to index that URL and to redirect people somewhere else like the main URL of the website. See code example below.
For the purposes of this experiment I downloaded a You Tube video, Tracktor Bowling – Edge using DownloadHelper Add-on with FireFox browser. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-LjNFjsOTs
Play the flv file on your computer with VLC media player. Capture a still from the video with FastStone Capture. This will also tell you what the dimensions of your video display are. Make the still a jpeg and call it what you called your flv file except it’s .jpg instead of .flv. Trim the edges of the still with IrfanView if needed. You can shrink the jpeg and video code as long as you keep the same height to width ratio as the original (if you have a 3 column WordPress theme and limited width main column), but you can’t expand them without resolution degradation. Upload the jpeg to the “moviefile” directory along with your flv file. See the jpeg result below. It ends up being 640 pixels by 283 pixels so this is what my video dimensions turn out to be. This player needs no extra height for the control bar.
Insert the video code into your post.
See code example below.
This player may not want any extra images within the post but you can have all the text you want. Therefore the next post will have the final product in it, and not this post since this post already has 3 extra images in it.
WordPress Founder on the Key to Open Source Success [INTERVIEW]
As a 19-year-old college student in 2003, Matt Mullenweg developed what has become the largest self-hosted blogging tool on the web. Two years later, he founded Automattic, which runs the content management system for WordPress and a handful of other web tools.
WordPress — still free and open source — is currently used by more than 12% of the top million websites (this one included). In a recent e-mail exchange, Mullenweg discussed the open source movement, the shifting personal web publishing world, and the future of WordPress. MORE
Drupal Founder on Why Open Source is Good for Business [INTERVIEW]
Fresh off of an $8.5 million round of funding that was announced earlier today, Acquia co-founder Dries Buytaert is feeling pretty good about the open source business model. The company that he co-founded in 2007 sells software and products that leverage Drupal, the open source project he started in 2000.
Drupal has grown from Buytaert’s experiment with new technologies into a worldwide group project that includes thousands of programmers. The White House, Harvard and MTV all use Drupal to run their sites. Acquia is just one of many companies profiting from the volunteer project.
Buytaert recently spoke with Mashable about the value of open source projects and the role that commercial interests play in their success. MORE
Do Freelancers Do Best on WordPress, Drupal or Joomla?
Some very interesting stats have just emerged about the freelance and contract market for CMS developers and designers.
In its quarterly market report, freelance site DoNanza discovered that even though WordPress devs, designers and SEO pros are in greater demand than their Drupal or Joomla counterparts — and even though WordPress outnumbers Drupal and Joomla in the number of projects for each CMS — Drupal web professionals on average make around twice what WordPress pros make per project.
The full report, called the State of the Work-From-Home and Freelancing Economy, looked at CMSes used by various professionals in a range of web-work specializations. It also ranked the most requested job skills right now.
On average, all CMS projects in DoNanza’s universe grew almost 50% quarter over quarter. The number of WordPress projects grew 61%; Joomla projects grew 38%; and Drupal projects grew 26%. MORE
Under your Settings menu (General Settings) you need to set your timezone. This website has a great map so you can see what GMT you are (same as UTC). http://www.worldtimezone.com/
Click on the map to enlarge a specific area.
You have to change your setting manually at a daylight savings time changeover.
Changing the setting will not change the times of previous posts.
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