Archive for June, 2010
Resharing is caring. Today’s example comes from the WordPress.com team, as they’ve just added a Like and Reblog feature to the popular publishing platform. As you might’ve guessed, these new perks look and behave like those within Facebook.
In order to utilize the new features you’ll need to have a WordPress.com account. Once logged it, you’ll notice the new Like option in the admin bar at the top of the page. Click it while viewing a post you enjoy and, much like Facebook, the Like button will become You like this. Once liked, a couple of new options will appear within a drop down menu:
View all posts I like: This one is pretty self-explanatory. Click it if you want to take a stroll down memory lane and review all the posts you’ve ever Liked through WordPress.com.
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WordPress.com Posts I like view
Reblog this post: If the level of like you feel for the post goes beyond the Like button, you can share it with your audience by clicking Reblog this post. Doing so will take you to the new QuickPress tab on the WordPress.com home page, where, (again) like Facebook, the item to be re-shared will present itself by way of a snippet of text and any images it contains:
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WordPress.com QuickPress reblog option
From here you can add your own comments to the post, and then select which blog you’d like to post it to (if you have more than one).
Social Blogging
WordPress.com’s new features bring the platform up to par with dead-simple blogging tools like Tumblr and Posterous, and is is hot on the heels of Google Buzz’s Resharing feature.
Whether or not these changes will convince bloggers that WordPress.com can be as simple as its competition remains to be seen, but the features certainly fit in with current standards.
The features are live as of now, so unless you need any more information, check it out and let us know what you think.
With a new year on the horizon, it’s time to pack away the old, worn web designs and prepare for the brave, new face of tomorrow. Although trends don’t start and stop on January 1st, there is a definite shift from what we craved at the beginning of the year to what we are seeking tutorials for at the end of the year. Most of the time, this shift is subtle. It’s a perfection or re-interpretation of a currently hot trend. Trends help us evolve as designers. As we master the skills of design aesthetic, we continue to push forward to what’s next or what needs to be fully discovered.
Just in case you missed it, the web now has version numbers. Nearly three years ago, amid continued hand-wringing over the dot-com crash, a man named Dale Dougherty dreamed up something called Web 2.0, and the idea soon took on a life of its own. In the beginning, it was little more than a rallying cry, a belief that the Internet would rise again. But as Dougherty’s O’Reilly Media put together the first Web 2.0 Conference in late 2005, the term seemed to trumpet a particular kind of online revolution, a World Wide Web of the people.