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Going to see Rives

Mihai Dragan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:04:52 +0000

Orange has invited Rives, “the first 2.0 poet”, and I will see the guy tonight.

Until next privost, here is “If I controlled the Internet”:

Amber, accepted on Wordpress Themes Directory

Mihai Dragan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:06:10 +0000

Great news: Amber, the Wordpress theme behind this blog got accepted on Wordpress Themes Directory. Right now you can download it, install it and tweak it.

It gets even better: Amber was downloaded 22 times already, in less than 24 hours.

In case you thought about using it, here are some of the features:

An widget-ready sidebar;
“Featured post” (just create an “Featured” category and add posts there);
Advertising space: 728×90 in the upper area and a 300×250 space in the right hand area;
Clean HTML code, ready for search engine indexing;
Optimized Wordpress 2.6.2 and 2.6.3;
Styled “Search”, “404 Error”, “Archive” pages;
Gravatar-ready comments;
Blog name and tagline included in template;
Styled calendar widget;
Styled search widget;
Carefully commented code.

Go get it.

What do Radio and Internet have in common ?

Mihai Dragan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:59:10 +0000

Among others there would be Denis Florent. When I first met him I couldn’t believe the guy can manage a big radio station and at the same time know how Typo 3 works and what is RSS or AJAX.

Today I have discovered his blog. Denis, when do you find time ?

Here’s Amber – the free wordpress theme

Mihai Dragan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:27:02 +0000

As I said earlier this week I have been planning the release of an Wordpress theme.

Some of it’s features are:

An widget-ready sidebar
“Featured post” feature (just create an “Featured” category and add posts there)
Advertising space: 728×90 in the upper area and a 300×250 space in the right hand area
Clean HTML code, ready for search engine indexing
Works with Wordpress 2.6.2

Find out more about it here.

Blog theme release

Mihai Dragan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:17:49 +0000

I thought I could contribute with something to a better world. I tried eradicating hunger, stopping wars and solving some other global issues. As it didn’t work out very well until now I figured I could very well release this blog’s theme.

The name will be “Amber” and will be a widgetized wordpress theme complete with some useful things like pages, search, categories and archive templates. It will also have a featured blog post (like the one you see here), advertising space (for all you out there looking to either make a buck or two or shout out something to your readers) and others.

The color scheme will be slightly modified for a better contrast and will have a tiny “offered by” text at the bottom.

What do you think?

Kontain, by Fantasy Interactive

Mihai Dragan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:52:40 +0000

Kontain, the previous Propod, launched September the 19th as an platform for blogging, video and photo sharing.

You can preview the technology on Fantasy Interactive’s media blog. I signed up for an beta preview and hope to get a better review soon enough.

Until than I am still reserved regarding a Flash based blogging tool. The main reason is the flash text indexing problem we still know many search engine have.

Last but not least: I love the product presentation on Kontain.com.