Techcrunch has a great article on why widgets and social applications will be popular during a slow economy. The bottom line is that widget development is cost effective. I’ve already seen this trend happening where I work and with people that I talk to. Everyone wants a widget for Facebook or MySpace. So if you’re a developer you better be looking at mashups and widgets if you want to stay relevant.
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Techcrunch has a great article on how traditional search engines might be nearing the end of their usefulness. The future lies in the semantic web and delivering filtered relevant results.
Yahoo wants to turn itself into a huge social-networking platform offering more API’s and it’s own application platform to compete directly with Google App Engine and Amazon Web Services. Sounds interesting. I think this idea could help rejuvenate Yahoo.
Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.
In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php. Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.
If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:
- Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
- Better performance for those who have many categories
- Media Uploader fixes
- An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
- Widget Administration fixes
- Various usability improvements
- Layout fixes for IE