WordPress Upgrade… I love it

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Posted by rjmartino | Posted on 12-11-2007

Category : Blogs

WordPress has been great to me. I just upgraded and it only took two clicks… No… seriously.

Before I used WordPress, open source applications took forever to configure, install, and customize… wordpress completely changed that.

If you need a recommendation for a blogging platform, I give my unstinting support to WordPress. Roxane Martino (sister) just released a new WP blog…

Does anyone else use WordPress? If so, let me know… if not… why not?

PS… iProv can design, install, customize, and configure your WP Blog :)

Google’s OpenSocial

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Posted by rjmartino | Posted on 05-11-2007

Category : Web 2.0

Google’s OpenSocial is exciting. I talk a lot about “integration of applications” being the future of software; OpenSocial is proving my point.

OpenSocial is a set of common API’s which will allow developers to write applications that leverage a number of different functions from participating web sites…

Good usage of an API can be seen at FORECLOSEDmaps.com. FORECLOSEDmaps.com uses Yahoo Maps… the way we’re able to use Yahoo Maps is by utilizing the Yahoo Maps API. If we decided to switch to Google Maps, we would have to register with a different vendor and re-write all of the code… Long story short… its a pain to use multiple API’s

OpenSocial will allow developers to quickly leverage mutliple sites using 1 API!!!

There are a ton of articles about it and everyone is really excited but the API isn’t publicly available yet… I can’t wait… I’m going to make something cool… I don’t know what… but something cool.

My Predictions

  1. As I stated (and its been proven) with the facebook platform, there are going to be a lot of new applications developed.
  2. The first (not necessarily the best) applications developed will see a flurry of users and will quickly go from thousands-of-users to hundreds-of-thousands.
  3. Acquisitions of the most popular applications
  4. You will see many new integration applications… that is… applications that allow you access to many of your favorite web sites from a central location (Facebook, myspace, linkedin… all from one location)
  5. People will become more transparent and data will become more seamless. Now that developers can easily marry your information across different platforms you will be able to connect a linkedin profile with a facebook profile.

iPhone… I have one… It sucks

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Posted by rjmartino | Posted on 01-11-2007

Category : Reviews

Yes… I know… I spend as much on phones as most people spend on cars… Every time that I start looking there is a review that promises me that some phone will solve all my problems… and each time, I’m dissapointed.

My last phone (the blackjack) was actually working perfect for me… it sync’d with my calendar, contacts, etc… It had email access… it had internet access… a full keyboard… played mp3s… took pictures… came with 2 batteries!!!

So, when I read all the fantastic reviews about the iPhone, I was pumped… I bought one and to my dissapointment, I’m still not happy… I actually want my money back and I want to go back to the blackjack… Here is what I hate…

  1. Not a full keyboard… I have to look at my phone as I text
  2. When I place it on my chin, it always puts people on hold
  3. The internet is NOT faster
  4. You can’t bulk delete from your emails
  5. No third party applications
  6. It has to sync with iTunes… I hate itunes