WordCamp 2008 live coverage
WordCamp 2008 is underway right now and Matt Mullenweg recommends ZDNet’s live coverage straight from University of California San Francisco.
Here’s the schedule:
9:00 a.m. The Future of Education and Wordpress -
9:30 a.m. SEO Mistakes Most Bloggers Make - Stephan Spencer
10:00 a.m. Open Source Business Models - Stephen O’Grady
10:50 a.m. Andy Skelton - A musical performance
11:00 a.m. LOLcats and the Secret of Virality
11:30 a.m. Wordpress & Microformats
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Switching to Wordpress Painlessly - Lloyd Budd
1:20 p.m. 450 Wordpress Power User Tips - Lorelle VanFossen
1:40 p.m. Hassle-free Upgrades - Sam Bauers
2:00 p.m. State of the Word - Matt Mullenweg
3:00 p.m. Get Friendly with BuddyPress - Andy Peatling
3:20 p.m. Democratizing the Web through Global Voices - Jeremy Clarke
3:40 p.m. An interview with Om Malik
4:00 p.m. Riding the Crazyhorse - Liz Danzico and Jane Wells
5:00 p.m. A musical performance by Chuck Lewis aka SEO Rapper
5:10 p.m. Kicking Ass and Creating Passionate Users - Kathy Sierra
Visit the blog post for a glimpse of what’s to come for our very own WordCamp Philippines. It’s a good read not only for WordPress fans but also for bloggers and technology enthusiasts in general.
See also the live Twitter updates coming in via its search interface.
BuddyPress is a WordPress MU Social Network Platform
If you enjoy all the features of WordPress, particularly its multi-user version WordPress MU, but would like to take it a step further and produce one of the hottest places to be on the web right now, a social network, then BuddyPress might be the solution you’re looking for.
BuddyPress is still essentially blogging software but “removes the main focus of WordPress MU away from blogs, moving it more towards the actual member themselves.” Instead of having blogging as its main feature, it’s now one features in addition to more detailed profile pages, private messaging, friends, groups, status updates, photo albums, and something called The Wire, which is basically where friends can leave messages on one’s profile page ala MySpace comments.
Rolling out a custom social network seems like the next logical step after blogging. In the Philippines, there are a lot of bloggers but there are more of us who more easily understand the likes of Friendster and Multiply. Others believe blogging is the next social network. And that our online social lives can remain scattered across different websites like Twitter and Facebook, too. Will BuddyPress draw in the crowds? Could it equal the likes of KickApps and Ning? We’ll find out soon enough.
