Posts Tagged ‘Web’
Twitter needs to change their meta description
When you add a page to Facebook, maybe for later keeping or sharing it with your friends, Facebook looks at the meta field "description" in the source code.
On Twitter ALL pages have the same meta description:
<meta name="description" content="Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time">
This means that when you post a Twitter page (no matter if it's a profile page or a single tweet) the description posted to Facebook (which you can't change) is: "Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time".
That doesn't really say anything about the content behind the link, so I sugges that the folks at Twitter change the meta line to something more meaningful, depending on what page the user is posting to Facebook:
- If it's a Twitter profile page, use the "Bio" that the user has written.
- If it's a single tweet, well, just use the text in the tweet. It's only 140 characters long (at most) - perfect for a meta description.
I could do it in WordPress (you can customize it even further using custom fields). So how hard can it be? :-)
Related postsTags: Facebook, Microblogging, Social web, Twitter, Web, Web 2.0
Share the love - WordPress logos, buttons and wallpapers
Just posted on Twitter, the official WordPress logos, buttons and wallpapers are now available. Even the Pantone color codes are there!
So publish, paint or print - share the WordPress love today :-)
Related postsTags: Design, logo, Web, wordpress
WordPress 2.3.2 is out
In case you haven't noticed: WordPress 2.3.2 is out.
So far, no new features (except that you can specify your own error page to display, when you're having database problems), but some security and bug fixes instead. Read more at the above link.
You can download WordPress at wordpress.org/download.
PS: WordPress [Wikipedia] is a state of the art piece of open source blogging software, and WordPress is also the platform driving this blog and many others.
Danish WordPress
I've also been told that a Danish translation of the new WordPress version is on its way. Once it's ready you can get it from wordpress.dk/download.
Tags: About this blog, Blogs, Internet, Open source, Software, Web, wordpress
Netscape Navigator 9 is here
Just a quick post: The web browser Netscape Navigator 9 has hit the streets.
You can download it from browser.netscape.com - users of the Navigator 9 beta can choose to upgrade within the browser.
Check out what's new in Netscape Navigator 9.
Related postsTags: Browsers, Netscape, Software, Web
Is Web 2.0 growing up?
According to The Wallstreet Journal more companies are spending more money in the field of "Web 2.0" (we SO need to come up with another term for that) — mostly social networking or blogging.
Also the investments in Web 2.0 companies has started to move outside the San Francisco Bay Arena which is "known for producing some of the most high-profile Internet companies".
In the first half of 2007 New England topped the Bay Arena with $102 million invested dollars, Bay Arena had $90.5 million.
Also companies are becoming better at investing in web companies:
Related postsTags: Businesses, Web, Web 2.0
Jakob Nielsen to corporate webmasters
Write Articles, Not Blog Postings.
Related postsTags: Internet, Usability, Web, Websites
Disabling Snap in Firefox
Are you annoyed by the Snap preview popups of preview images of sites when you hover over a link?
Here's a guide on how to disable Snap permanently in Firefox.
Psssst: It involves AdBlock Plus ;)
Related postsFrom Twitter to Jaiku
I've switched completely from Twitter to Jaiku, which is more reliable and has more features.
Now Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has a post on switching from Twitter to Jaiku among other things because of the things I've mentioned here.
He also names a few Jaiku tools that you can use.
Related postsTags: Social web, Web
Jaiku coming to Denmark?
One of the new social services, where you tell anyone with interest in it what you're doing right now in this second is Jaiku, which hails from Finland.
As with Twitter we Danes have to send an SMS to a foreign number (in Jaiku it's a Swedish number, in Twitter it's an UK number) - which costs to much for me to make it a habbit.
But it appears that the Jaiku folks have also bought Jaiku.dk which spawns hope in me that they someday will add a Danish number, so we don't have to pay the extra costs.
But then again, it may just be to avoid domain pirates…
Related postsTags: Social web, Web