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New Themes: Currents and Debut
2012-02-02 21:00:00 Today, I’m excited to introduce the latest additions to our collection of premium themes. Designed by Andy Rutledge, Currents, is a responsive, minimal yet attractive premium theme from WooThemes . Currents is perfect for news driven sites. The phrase, “less is more” couldn’t be more true. This clean and minimal design maximises your reader’s focus on the content. Having said that, the theme is packed with many customization options — a wide featured post slider, custom news areas, six alternative color styles, and more. Together, all of these features help you to control how to present current events you want to share with your readers. Think your readers might check your site on a mobile device? No problem! Currents makes your site look great on an iPad, iPhone or any other mobile device. This is not all about this great theme, Currents — so be sure to read about it on the Theme Showcase. Next up is Debut – a beautifully designed t...
Import from Tumblr in 3 Easy Steps
2012-02-02 13:06:00 We’ve recently noticed that a fair number of you have been bringing your tumblelogs over from Tumblr to WordPress.com using one of the variety of Tumblr to WXR conversion tools which exist on the web. We thought you would appreciate an easier way to import your content, so we bring you 3 easy steps to import your content. Authenticate with Tumblr To bring your tumblelog’s content to WordPress.com, head to Tools → Import in your WordPress.com dashboard and look for the Tumblr importer. If you don’t already have an account here on WordPress.com then head over and sign up first. Click the link to get started and then enter the email address you used to sign up to Tumblr, your Tumblr password and click Connect to Tumblr. Start the Import The importer will then fetch a list of your blogs and let you pick which one to import. Click Import this blog to get going. Once you have started, the import progress will be shown on the import page and you will be sent an emai...
Reblogging is Back!
2012-01-22 20:27:00 As we mentioned last week, you can like and reblog posts directly from your reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account. We’ve also brought the reblog button back to the toolbar that appears at the top of the screen when you’re logged into WordPress.com. Note that you’ll only see the like and reblog options while you’re looking at individual posts. For example, you’ll see this on the left side of your toolbar while viewing http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/r ead-blogs: And your toolbar will look like this while you’re browsing the home page of en.blog.wordpress.com: How does reblogging work? Reblogging is a quick way to share posts published by other WordPress.com users on your own blog. When a post is reblogged, it shows up with a link back to the blog it came from, the first image in the post, an excerpt of the post’s introduction (if it contains text), an... More About: Back
New Theme: Newsy
2012-01-20 19:18:00 It’s been an extra big week in the news ’round these parts, so much so that the launch announcement of our latest premium theme seems like an extra extra good way to headline our Friday. Newsy is a versatile business and news-friendly theme that offers up to ten different layouts, four footer columns, custom link and accent colors, and a custom site header. Brand and content-focused editorial teams will love publishing with this theme. Newsy: Home Page Designed by Themify, Newsy comes with an impressive set of Theme Options that afford you a great deal of flexibility with how you choose to display your website. Easily control your site’s sidebar positions, home page and archive page post layouts, and navigation bar search box visibility. You also have the ability to change your site-wide link and accent colors. A few quick adjustments via the options panel will truly have the effect of individualizing your site and making it stand out from the crowd. Newsy: Accent and...
Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place
2012-01-20 01:04:00 If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post contains. You can even like and reblog WordPress.com content directly from the reader (we’re working on bringing reblogs back to the toolbar!) using the icons in the top right corner of each post: Whether you’re at the computer or using the WordPress app on an Android or iOS mobile device, having all the posts from the blogs you follow in one place makes it easy to find the updates that are important to you, and skip over the ones that aren’t.... More About: Blogs , Read , Place
Get Married With WordPress
2012-01-12 17:07:00 One of the most important events of your life might just be your wedding. It also might be one of the craziest, disorganized, mixed-up times of your life too. We’d like to help with that a bit with a free wedding theme we call Forever. Along with a handful of cool features we’ll get to below, Forever makes it easy to wrap your wedding up in a neat little blog on WordPress.com. You can show off every one of your best photos and highlight every important detail leading up to the big day and beyond. Forever makes it easy to welcome your family and friends to your blog with a dramatic personalized home page. The design is bold and clean with lots of room for large, colorful photos of the happy couple (that’s you!) in an optional featured post slider and home page excerpts. You can also easily customize the color scheme and get Forever to match your wedding colors with only a few clicks. You can update the background color (or add your own pattern) from the custom back... More About: Wordpress
Splinder Importer Now Available
2012-01-09 16:00:00 Italian blogging service Splinder.com is closing down at the end of this month, and we’d like to extend a hearty “Benvenuto” to any Splinder users who’re looking for a new blogging home. To help make migration easier, we’ve added a Splinder importer to WordPress.com. If you’d like to make the move, please go ahead and get started now so that there’s time before the January 31st deadline to work out any issues. Exporting your Splinder Blog To import a Splinder blog, you’ll first need to save your export file to your computer by following these steps: First, log in to Splinder and click the “Blog” link available at the top of the home page. Next, click the “configura” link available at the top of the blog page. Now click “Esporta blog e attiva redirect” in the right-hand sidebar. Next, download the content of your blog by clicking the link “Clicca qui per scaricare il file con i contenuti del ...
New Themes: AutoFocus, Imbalance 2, and Reddle
2011-12-06 17:32:00 Today we are absolutely thrilled to warm your creative hearts with the announcement of three new themes: AutoFocus, Imbalance 2, and Reddle. AutoFocus is an elegant, minimal theme designed for artists, photographers, and other creatives seeking a simple but beautiful way to showcase their talents online. Designed by Allan Cole, this oft-requested theme simultaneously boasts impressive featured images throughout and a clean, unobtrusive design that gets out of the way of what truly matters—your creativity. AutoFocus Home Page If you publish single-serving images on a daily photoblog, AutoFocus will accommodate you with ease. If you insert large galleries into your blog posts with the intention of writing assignment recaps, AutoFocus will also elegantly serve up your photo sets and stories. Wordsmiths will also enjoy the sleek and readable aesthetic that AutoFocus delivers. Point is, AutoFocus works on so many levels for so many different types of creators that it’s simply a p... More About: Themes
WordPress.com Blogger Scores Book Deal for “You Are Not So Smart&rdqu
2011-11-11 18:23:00 According to David McRaney, “You may think that you’re a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is. But you’re as deluded as the rest of us, and that’s OK, because it keeps you sane.” David is a journalist and the creator of the WordPress.com blog You Are Not So Smart , which was recently expanded into a book, You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself, published this October. “This is an amazing and revolutionary time for writers,” David says. “The barriers to entry are so low, and the platforms like WordPress.com are so well made, anyone with a voice can start shouting and be heard. Instead of writing a book and hoping a publisher won’t throw it into the slush pile, writers can start a blog and build a fan base. They can prove to publishers there is a market for their work and their voice.” About the Book ... More About: Wordpress , Blogger , Deal
New Themes: Photography, Brand New Day, and Bouquet
2011-11-10 17:10:00 I’m happy to announce that we’ve added another group of three new themes to our collection today. Each one has its own distinct personality but they do share one thing in common: they’re all awesome themes that I know you’ll love. Let’s check them out. The first up is Photography , a premium theme designed by The Theme Foundry specifically for Photographers looking for a great way to share their photos. It takes advantage of Post Formats to present your galleries in a beautiful custom way — in posts and two custom page templates. Make sure you check it out on the Theme Showcase and browse around the Photography theme demo site. Next up is the super-fun, Brand New Day theme designed by Caroline Moore. It’s a lovely, illustrated theme that comes in four different “flavors”–day, night, autumn, and winter. Each flavor is expertly tied into the design. Plus it has different sidebar arrangements and a narrow/wide column option. Finally,... More About: Themes
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2007-03-28 03:28:00 Online Books 4 Free: Free Psychology Books (tags: Psychology) More About: Links , Link
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2007-03-08 23:51:03 Business Intelligence Lowdown: Top 10 Largest Databases in the World (tags: Data) More About: Links , Link
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2007-03-01 23:46:03 Should Business Rules Be Technology Neutral? - Kenneth Downs’s personal blog (tags: BusinessRules) More About: Links , Link
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2007-02-28 23:46:01 In E-commerce, Small is the New Big (tags: Micropayments) More About: Links , Link
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2007-02-25 23:44:07 TomDebevoise.com » The Agile Core (tags: Agility) Decision Table Publications (tags: BusinesRules) Supply and Demand Chain News, Events, Jobs, Podcasts, Webcasts at SDCExec.com (tags: SupplyDemand) More About: Links , Link
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2007-02-22 05:42:02 Japan Media Review — Emerging Business Applications in the Japanese Mobile Internet (tags: Mobile) Home (tags: DataWarehousing) More About: Links , Link
Improving Disconnected Decisions with Smart Mobile Applications
2007-02-21 17:41:03 I was browsing through the Java Mobile Applications Website, then came across a 2004 Report on Emerging Business Applications in the Japanese Mobile Internet. Pretty Interesting stuff. Integrating Mobile Applications into the work fabric unlocks many efficiencies, while also introducing some challenges. Here are some of the uses of Mobile Technology that I have heard of. Mobile Applications for Field Personnel (Real Estate, Financial Services, Retail) Fleet Management Apps in Retail Supply Chain Applications in Retail, Government. A Usecase for Analysis Lets take one example of a Sales Agent for a Financial Services Firm. Lets assume he sells financing for Tractors and other farming equipment. He uses a Mobile Phone with Java or Windows CE, which runs a quote generation application. This application connects to a central website to which he submits the details of the equipment the prospect is interested in. He should be able to generate a quote on his Mobile, and attempt to clos... More About: Cat , Smart , With
Thinking of Human Activities and Business Processes
2007-02-21 11:40:01 Now, I was speaking to our Product Architect yesterday. He was saying that we need business rules technology to solve the problems arising out of H-Commerce. Now, what in the world is H-Commerce? When we think and of business systems, I have noticed that we generally think in terms of computers, software systems, databases, business processes, warehouses, SOA, Information Management Systems, ERP and other countless other words. But, you canNot really ignore that there are people out there, and are very much a very big part of every equation. Now, H-Commerce is essentially the sum of the following. H2B - Human to Business Interactions H2C - Human to Customer Interactions H2H - Human to Human Interactions Read More at Business Decisions in a Digital Enterprise More About: Activities , Business Process , Think
Introducing the Blogging Family !
2007-02-21 11:40:01 Now, this is really happening. I started blogging here and then here. Then, I discovered that my sis has been doing it for some time here. Then my dad started on his own here And now my Wife is writing here. More About: Family , Blogging , Blog , Intro , Blogg
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2007-02-20 23:39:08 dataWarehouse.com | Brought to you by DM Review (tags: Data) There is no spoon, why the best software design and development process is all in your head (tags: PM) » From semantic Web (3.0) to the WebOS (4.0) | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com (tags: WebOS) More About: Links , Link
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2007-02-15 23:36:03 Bank Systems & Technology: The Blog: The biggest hindrance to growing any bank is the depersonalization of customers. (tags: CRM Banking) More About: Links , Link
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2007-02-14 23:35:06 Adding Simplicity - An Engineering Mantra: Latency Exists, Cope! I put this line on a slide recently for a presentation at work. Looking around the room, I could tell that some of the people understood, some were perplexed, and some annoyed. What does latency have to do with architecture anyway? We’re concerned with pr (tags: Architecture) Smart Clients: New Guidance And Tools For Building Integrated Desktop Applications — MSDN Magazine, September 2006 (tags: .NET) Eleven Emerging Ideas for SOA Architects in 2007 (tags: SOA) Fred Chong’s WebBlog : SaaS is a journey, walk with us (tags: SaaS) Mike Walker’s Ramblings about Industry Architecture : Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Update (tags: SOA) More About: Links , Link
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2007-02-14 23:35:06 How banking on a mobile phone can help the poor | FP Passport (tags: Banking) More About: Links , Link
Recent Posts on Business Rules
2007-02-14 23:35:06 How to Manage Online Product Availability Effectively. Eweek has this article about Mercado Software that will without human intervention?add and remove products based on inventory and item profit margins. I found that interesting because this is a clear use case for business rules technology. I am sure that Mercado internally use some kind of Decisioning mechanism, and I would love to understand what it is. But, talking about these class of problems,here are some of the usecases that the article mentions. If Inventory Level for a Product Goes Below a Threshold (Event) … BPM, BI & BRMS A Broad View from 10000 Feet. Ismail Ghalimi has this write up on Where BPM & BI Meet. I wanted to add my 2 cents here because I feel that Business Rules Systems are very much a part of the picture. As they say, one picture is worth a thousand words, here is my thousand. Click image to enlarge. [ broadview.gif] … Decision Automation in Disaster Recovery Venk... More About: Business Rules , Post , Cent
Recent Posts on Business Rules
2007-02-11 23:33:02 Programming is Dead. Long live Business Rules I was reading The Death of Computing and thinking about it, when I came across Too Much Code. Reading these two, I was reminded of The Problem with Programming. Now, I have earlier written about how you can beat complexity using business rules and speeding up your projects. Now, I would be speaking only of business application software here, as I myself started with application software only. The Million Dollar Question.. Are current programming languages the right tool to capture business decision logic? … How to Effectively Outsource Using Business Rules In an earlier post on Agile Enterprises, I covered this briefly.This post intends to fully take up the subject . Here are some of the major engineering issues that arise parallel/outsourced development scenario. Concurrent Engineering We want to be able to develop solution parts, capabilities in parallel. In case of a distributed development environment, this becomes r... More About: Post , Cent
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2007-02-07 11:27:01 Top-down compliance - IT Services - www.itnews.com.au (tags: compliance) Technology News: Spotlight Features: M-Commerce Market on the Move, Part 1 (tags: mcommerce) More About: Links , Link
Business Decisions in a Digital Enterprise - Recent Posts
2007-02-06 17:25:03 Most Recent Post s from Business Decisions in a Digital Enterprise And Talking of Agile Enterprises ? BPMG.org has this post on How Agile Enterprise Addresses the Challenges of the 21st Cent ury. Now, now, how can any talk of Enterprise Agility leave behind business rules from the picture. Five major trends in the industry identified in the post are these. Shrinking Business Cycles - A Need for Speed Commoditization of Products and Services - Need service differentiators Demand for Total Products and Services - Time and Space Contraction - Global Business Consolidation/Outsourcing An Excerpt from the Post Companies are now pursuing agile … Documenting Complex System Behavior When this blogger asks Can complicated Software systems really be documented , I find myself agreeing with him to some extent. I am completely convinced that good design and some better programmers combined with whatever documentation is available is what you could hope for at best most ...
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More articles from this author:2007-01-11 17:09:03 SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator (tags: Funny) The Fudge Factory (tags: Funny) Line56.com: Free BI (tags: OpenSource) Fred Chong’s WebBlog (tags: SaaS) More About: Links , Link 1, 2 |
