Community Guy – Jake McKee

Feed Reader Highlights – February 28, 2009

• Rogue Archivist Campaigns to Be Obama’s Printer
• Only a Cable Guy Could Come Up With Newsday’s Pay-Only Scheme
• JPG Magazine Has Been Acquired, Lives Anew
• Big Bad Apple
• Back in Black!
• Google’s Piddling $60 Promise To Writers
• Trek Fans Respond to Abrams With Mock Mag
• Data: What Happens to PR Firms in a Recession, a 2009 Forecast
• TV.com Brings (Some) Full Episodes to Your iPhone [IPhone]
• The Next Net: our lives described by our wanderings
• Non-Customer Reviews Erased from App Store

Twitter reaches 11% of online Americans

Wow. Still think that twitter is “pointless and dumb”?

Online microblogging services like Twitter, a popular social media tool for many media companies and television networks, are used by 11% of online Americans, according to a research report conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project in December and released today. That’s up from 9% of online Americans using the service in November.

Back in May, Pew reported online microblogging usage at about 6% of online Americans.

Twitter users skew young, with one in five online Americans in the 18-to-24 demo using Twitter. But Pew also said the median age of a Twitter user is 31, compared to 27 for MySpace, 26 for Facebook and 40 for LinkedIn.

Feed Reader Highlights – February 27, 2009

• Print Your Favorite Wikis As Books, Courtesy Of Wikipedia (And PediaPress)

Making fans happy is easy

Well, maybe not always easy. But certainly more often than not. Check out this great story (via Andy).

Feed Reader Highlights – February 26, 2009

• HOW TO: Organize a Successful Tweetup

Example of a fantastic announcement email

I don’t know why this tickled me so, but I just had to share.

If you were living under a rock you might have missed our 2.7 release, which included the most significant interface update in WordPress’ short history and has been pretty well-received.

It’s also been pretty bug-free, which is why there was a longer-than-normal period of time before an update.

We won’t fault you for the rock thing, but for rockers and curmudgeons-who-never-upgrade-to-a-.0-release, our latest and greatest (2.7.1) is hot of the presses:

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/02/wordpress-271/

If you were on 2.7 already you might be able to just press a button (Tools -> Upgrade) and be on the new version in under 10 seconds.

I hope your Valentine’s day was filled with love and luv and chocolate,

Matt Mullenweg
http://ma.tt | http://wordpress.org

P.S. Plugin search no longer sucks:

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/02/new-and-improved-plugins-directory-search/

Fantastic tone, helpful tips, and a reminder that Automattic knows what they’re doing.

Feed Reader Highlights – February 25, 2009

• 5 Startup Tips From the Father of Gmail and FriendFeed
• Crowdsourcing Border Patrol
• Product Review: Kindle 2 Brings Books Closer to e-Nirvana
• Paul Dunay: More Thoughts on Thought Leadership
• Safari 4 Beta Released for OS X, Windows

Facebook traffic benefits from 25 Things

I recently blogged about the TIME Magazine article that railed on the 25 Things meme. Turns out, the meme was of huge benefit for Facebook. From RWW:

According to the latest data from Compete, four times more people than usual visited the ‘Notes’ section on Facebook in January. Compete estimates that close to 20 million users used ‘Notes’ in January, while only about 4 million used it in October 2008.

But it wasn’t just the ‘Notes’ section that profited from this meme. Facebook itself saw its traffic grow by 15% in January, which represents the fourth largest single month increase in visitors to the site. In addition, 60% more profiles were created in January than in December.

We shouldn’t mock what we can’t, won’t, or don’t understand…

Feed Reader Highlights – February 24, 2009

• PHOTO: Less as a sales tool: five by Haagen-Dazs
• Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) Will Sync Tabs with Firefox on Your Desktop [Fennec]
• The LEGO Group Makes Fast Company's Top 50 Innovative Companies!

2 New Job Posts

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• NEW – Community and Product Manager – RarePlanet.org, Arlington, VA
• NEW – Online Community Lead, Denver, CO
• Blellow Community Manager, San Antonio & telecommute, TX
• Social Network Community Manager, Annapolis, MD

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