I got some new stuff to talk about, but they were not big enough to take a post by themselves. So here is a mashup:
Feedburner has recently added a “post to twitter” feature. It is under your feed’s Publisize, Socialize.
Not a groundbreaking feature really, but what I love about it is that there is an option to pull the post’s tags and generate hashtags. Yeah, that is one nifty little feature that makes your tweets pop up in twittersearch. That of course, if you use real tags, and not the tags I use on this blog that suck…
Aweber has recently added a new form generator, with some really cool options. Time to update those crappy forms and get web2.0
I know all you IM gurus have put the dollar sign form. Don’t. Please don’t. It is a cliche before it even got posted.
Since we are talking about forms, I am going to repeat an opinion that I wrote about a long time ago:
Your contact form only needs name, email and comment.
If you ask for more, fuck you. A few days ago I tried to contact an affiliate company I work with, and their only means was through a contact form. And that contact form required (REQUIRED) my affiliate ID and my contact details, WHILE I WAS STILL LOGGED IN THEIR SYSTEM. For fucks sake, get a programmer will ya? Needless to say, I closed the page and they never got my feedback.
Make it easy for people to reach you. Their time is precious.
One other thing I am happy with, is the new Wordpress 3. It is still in beta, so no live application of it yet, but it rocks. It simply rocks.
- It is finally a usable CMS. You can finally manage your menu easily, not jerk around with page orders and parents and css tricks.
- They finally removed that stupid random admin password during installation. I remember that this was the issue with automatic mass wordpress installations, maybe now it will become a breeze.
- There is a new theme. Who gives a shit.
- You can change headers and background pics for that new theme. Could be useful for seasonal stuff, or sponsored backgrounds?
- And there is a custom post feature, that enables you to get posting the way you want to. Nice one.
- They also say that Wordpress 3 is integrated with MU, and that from now on they will be developed in parallel. No more plugin issues? I doubt it, but we will see.
After all, code is poetry.
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