WordCamp Day Two
August 9th, 2009 by sissT
In short: If you are planning anything social networking… sit tight, wait for WordPress to merge WordPress MU to the core. Once this has happened, BuddyPress and bbPress will be in 1.xxx and we might see some interesting stuff coming up.
Chris Lipscombe (link to follow) told us “How to get it right in order to make it big” with his Business Fundamentals.
Harley Alexander told us a few things about themes. Things you do not really need to know, but are awesome for the advanced theme builder ^_^… wow.
Now Bernard Hickey was a highlight for me today. Real journalists, using the blogger sphere tools to make money while staying independent. I am sure I was not the only one who thought he made a joke when he said he makes money from Bank Advertisement… Which BTW makes way more sense once you move from the blog to the website ^_^…
One (at least I) can learn heaps of stuff about online publishing from a blogger with a solid “real” journalistic background. I loved his phrase on “curating your content”.
“Turbocharge your WordPress” from Jeff Waugh was another eye opener. He seems to know his stuff and if he answers to the remark “…some people say WordPress does not scale to industry size” with something like “… These people are Idiots! They aren’t looking at who is using WordPress, their loss…”. Now a dedicated server with somebody like Jeff tweaking the bits and pieces might help.
Fazit: … maybe the next time I will not ask quite as many questions, and I definitely will wiki the speakers first. It might not be very clever to ask somebody who allegedly got an offer for $200 Mil (Source Wikipedia) for his company, how he makes money ^_^…
I think WordPress got enough love for 2 days… so back to ranting again ^_^…
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