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The MacGuyver Game

« 16 August 2008 | 11:45 | WordCamp Live | 6 Comments »

As the 11am addition to the WordCamp game here is the game. Its the MacGuyver Game (not MacGruber).  Take what is available too you, and turn it into something usuable.
You are given a stack of toilet paper, starch, chewing gum, and a rock. What could you make out of this?
Now you’ve got 10 minutes to [...]



Achieve Viral Virility

« 16 August 2008 | 11:22 | WordCamp Live | No Comments »

What is Virality
http://icanlol.com/ichc-wordcamp.pdf
Virality is: Growth based on goodwill
Viral Coefficient
Ivite -based Viral Coef. =
Input

# of Invitation
Delivery Rate
Open Rate
Click Rate
Sign Ups
New Invitations Sent

Why Facebook Apps Spam



Even Faster Websites

« 16 August 2008 | 11:00 | WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

Steve Souders Starts by interducing himself and what he does. (Author of High Performance Websites)
Was going to do his standard talk, but he ripped apart a WordPress Install and then looked over Ma.tt and show what can be done to optimize it.
ma.tt head Analysis
Even Faster Web Sites
(inside ma.tt)
best practices for faster pages
http://stevesouders.com/docs/wordcamp-20080816.ppt
Importance of frontend Performace
9% [...]



DiSo, OAuth, and More

« 16 August 2008 | 9:55 | WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

Will Norris Speaking (http://will.norris.name)
Initaillt Started with the OpenID plugin.  They had numerous technologies to begin with. It all came out of the DISO project.
All these service have an API, typically each site has its own password.  The idea here is a Protocol for a user to interact with these services without thinking about it.
the Valet [...]



The Future of Education and WordPress

« 16 August 2008 | 9:32 | WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

Post has been updated with the Video of this, that was shot by John P., at the bottom.
Alan Levine is podcasting this
EduBlog
Been on the web for years and a blog since 2003 (recovering moveable type user - took 10 minutes)
He “was blogging back too 2000″  Every day when he was on Sabbatical he wrote daily [...]