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3 Things Every Entrepreneur Can Learn from Shiva Keshavan

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February 10, 2014

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Have you been watching the Olympics? Let’s start with the fact that his country’s not known for its cold weather. Or that its favorite sport is cricket. Add to that the fact that its own Olympic committee was recently suspended because it elected criminals to its leadership. Oh, and top it off with the fact that there’s not a single place to practice the luge in the entire country. There’s just no way to explain Indian athlete Shiva Keshavan’s appearance at this year’s Olympic Winter Games. Until you realize that he’s been practicing by putting wheels on his luge and taking it […]

The Day WordPress Took Back the Internet, Again

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February 10, 2014

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With each new leak getting consecutively worse, stories of NSA surveillance have caused quite an uproar recently online. We’ve gone from gawking at amateurish PowerPoint presentations explaining the level at which PRISM operates, to hearing about government sponsored Malware convincing the head of Microsoft to refer to the NSA as a serious and persistent threat to internet security. And headlines continue to reach new levels of absurdity with events like the NSA phone-tapping the German Chancellor and creating tools for hacking Cisco, Juniper and Wahwei routers with ease. It’s time, once again, to take action. Tomorrow, on Feb 11, people from all corners of the web (and […]

TouchCast Embed Plugin Allows You to Embed Fully Interactive Videos into Posts

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February 7, 2014

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Video authoring platform TouchCast recently released the beta version of a plugin that will allow you to embed a fully functional TouchCast video into a WordPress post. Rapidly growing since its launch in 2013, TouchCast allows people to create and watch videos that are layered with live web pages, YouTube clips, Twitter streams, and other digital touchpoints that viewers can expand and manipulate with their fingers. The folks at TouchCast call themselves “the next phase of the internet’s evolution.” Their free creative suite makes it easy for anyone—from a first-time blogger to a movie studio—to create multi-layered and hyperinteractive videos. Once […]

CES 2014: From a WordPress Perspective

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February 6, 2014

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I recently spent 4 days in Las Vegas for CES 2014 and noticed a few technologies that—in my opinion—we in the WordPress community will want to actively monitor, as they could potentially affect the future of the platform. Reverse Responsive Design 2012 saw the push for responsive design in themes in order to accommodate smart phones that required developers to handle both touch events as well as different screen sizes and resolutions. By the close of 2013, it was practically impossible to find a theme that was not responsive (I say this jokingly), and mobile design was openly embraced by the WordPress […]

Congratulations Kirby!

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February 5, 2014

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Let’s congratulate Kirby Prickett, who will be leaving Torque to join the team at WP Engine. She will now be the editor of WP Engine’s blog. Kirby asked me to pass on her thanks to the contributors she worked with during her short time at Torque, saying: I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Michelle and the many excellent contributing writers that help make Torque such a great resource for the WordPress community. Best wishes to Kirby in her new role! Michelle Oznowicz is the Managing Editor of Torque. Whether it be directing a short film, […]

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