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BuddyPress & bbPress Integration

socialpreneur — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:36:10 +0000

I’ve just finished setting up bbPress running smoothly on BuddyPress. I’ve had hard time finding resources, but thanks to search engines and forums, I found these useful that I’m happy to share the links.

Before you read these instructions, you should have wpmu and buddypress running properly.

Using bbPress 1.0 Alpha

It seems most users of BuddyPress use this. Step by step instruction is provided at Integrating BuddyPress 1.0, WPMU 2.7.1 and bbPress Alpha 6.

Using bbPress 1.0 RC3

BuddyPress forum and some use this, including me. I don’t know the differences, but I just say it works fine. Nicely written instruction at WMU wiki.

If you don’t know which versions to use, this topic might help.

I’ll be writing more detailed post in Japanese, but since we already have these great instructions in English, I won’t be going into detail here.

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WordPress Mu 2.8.1

socialpreneur — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:01:52 +0000

According to Donncha’s tweet, WordPress Mu 2.8.1 will be released skipping 2.8 release. I’m not sure the date, but teams are looking for debuggers for tickets on svn.

WordPress and Volkswagen

socialpreneur — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:21:26 +0000

I never noticed their logos are kinda similar until today…

Volkswagen logo.

WordPress logo.

Both are cool anyway… I love them.

My Facebook URL

socialpreneur — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:08:36 +0000

I’ve got my Facebook URL as:

facebook.com/socialpreneur

This will show my Facebook profile.

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Draw the world with Paintica

socialpreneur — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:36:23 +0000

Paintica, a new Google Street Views mashup from Japan lets you draw anything on the maps. Users can not only draw picture, but can also create animation on the maps.

I’ve seen many Google Map mashups, but never heard of one for Street Views. But I’d like to see more like this in the future.

Publishing blogs on Kindle?

socialpreneur — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:29:24 +0000

I heard last night at JapanTechTalk that bloggers can publish their contents on Kindle, and sell their blog posts. But as it’s not widely sold in Japan I have less information on.

One participant asked if Japanese bloggers are interested to monetize their blogs, but most Japanese blogs don’t have specific topics. There are many English written blogs which focus on certain topics such as tourism, business (marketing, seo, blah, blah), but I see them rarely in blogosphere in Japan.

In Japan blogs are mostly used as public personal diaries, where bloggers write about anything happening from their life. If the blogger is famous, their diaries can be monetized, but if not famous then who’d pay?

TEDx Tokyo was great!

socialpreneur — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:39:46 +0000

photo credit: dullhunk

“The earth was not given to us by our parents. It was lent to us by our children.”

My eyes hurt… watching the TEDx Tokyo live broadcasting from 9am to 6pm, mostly sitting in front of desk at home is quite a hard work. When will we see screens that don’t hurt our eyes like printed papers?

The live went well overall. But I missed the opening speech by Princess Takamado due to the live not working properly. I could hear her speech, but I’ll watch it again once TEDx Tokyo teams uploads recorded videos sometime later.

There were more than 2000 - 2500 users watching it online, twitter hushtag of tedxtokyo reached top 3 on the Twitter’s trend channel. This is great, isn’t it?

The downside was a lot of Japanese weren’t aware of the event, or the online broadcasting. It was better if translation or interpretation was provided to all the speakers for those who don’t understand English (this is originally someone else’s complaint). But this will be covered on the recoded versions, I think.

Thanks to all the volunteers behind.

Until the recorded videos come up, enjoy the scenes on YouTube, Flickr, and … anyone knows more?

TEDx Tokyo on 22th

socialpreneur — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:21:55 +0000

TEDx (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is coming to Tokyo. On 22th which is tomorrow, the opening event is going to be available on live.

TEDx Tokyo
http://tedxtokyo.com/
TEDx Tokyo on Twitter (#tedxtokyo)
http://twitter.com/TEDxTokyo

WordPress Google Friend Connect plugin

socialpreneur — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:36:25 +0000

This site uses Google Friend Connect plugin for WordPress.

However when viewed using Chrome, footer bar may not appear properly, endlessly requesting to Google servers. (works well on Firefox, and perhaps IE)

Here’s Google service not properly working on Google product…

JapanTechTalk, Talkshoe and Gizmo

socialpreneur — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:28:02 +0000

I’ve been participating JapanTechTalk, a series of live conferences focused on technologies in Japan hosted by Robert Sanzalone of PacificIT. We are using Talkshoe for text and voice chat, but even using Firefox sometimes it causes browser crash (that’s a shame, isn’t it?).

I’ve also installed downloadable version of talkshoe, but it didn’t recognize my laptop’s mic. So I head over to Talkshoe section at GetSatisfaction and found Gizmo Project (supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux plus mobile) is good alternative to the official talkshoe software.

If you use Gizmo Project, you don’t need to open up the talkshoe on browsers (talkshoe makes browsers crash often) any more. You can listen and even participate the live via Gizmo (except the text chat. If your room has TweetChat support, then use it).

From Gizmo, call this SIP number 123@66.212.134.192.

Type in the JapanTechTalk room ID number: #44167 and if you are not registered at talkshoe, type #1 (or auto responder tells you). If you are registered, then type your PIN following #.