Browser extension YooNo launches revenue strategy

In the spirit of examining the economics of social network services, as I did yesterday with Meebo, today I’m looking at YooNo, another social product that we’ve reviewed favorably but that appeared to be in desperate need of a business model. YooNo is a social network aggregator: You install it in your browser and it [...]

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Donncha: Make your WordPress plugin talk AJAX

This morning at BarCamp Cork I gave a short talk on how to add AJAX functionality to WordPress plugins.
Here are the example scripts I used during the talk. Rename the files to .php and install as you would normal WordPress plugins.

helloworld1.txt – very simple and basic “Hello World” plugin.
helloworld2.txt – script that will [...]

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Manage WordPress blog comments in AIR

(Credit: Daniel Dura)
If you’re keen on moderating blog comments in near real time and would prefer to do so without a browser window open, you should check out Moderator. It’s a hybrid tool that uses both a WordPress plug-in and an Adobe AIR desktop application to keep you up to speed with the latest user [...]

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