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iThemes Enters eCommerce Space with Exchange

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June 5, 2013

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The biggest news in the eCommerce space isn’t Shopify with their v2 being released yesterday but rather iThemes and their new entry in the growing shopping space with Exchange. And they were greeted with many votes of confidence and praise, even from existing competitors. As one person mentioned, this is what’s so great about the WordPress community because we can pat each other on the back despite our commercial interests: Competitors who treat each other with respect because they understand that the culture of the community they’re in doesn’t do competition the way other communities do it. iThemes on-going challenges will […]

ZippyKid Drops WishList Member, GPL Issue?

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June 5, 2013

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ZippyKid shared an announcement yesterday that I had to sit on for a moment to understand exactly what the big deal was (if there was any big deal to be had). Vid Luther, founder of ZippyKid shared that they are no longer supporting Wishlist Member for a number of reasons: Performance: Once a membership site goes around 20,000 members and about 100 concurrent sessions, the system starts to bog down. Lack of Transparency: They can’t see the code, so they can’t find ways to improve it. Support: The support for the product is non-responsive Caching: Wishlist works better with APC object […]

WP101 Goes International, Spanish

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June 5, 2013

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This is fantastic news that came across our wire late yesterday as we received word that WP101, the well-known WordPress tutorial site, has released their tutorials in spanish. The challenge was obvious as they had once considered just doing subtitles instead of a true voiceover but to give that authentic feel they decided to invest in the latter:

Bret Simmons: Social Business and Personal Branding

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June 5, 2013

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I’m passionate about personal branding because I believe it’s an important part of building a successful business online. Why? Because people are interested in following people, not just an organization. That’s why you see more people follow (literally) founders of organizations instead of the official company Twitter account. That’s why you get personal blogs that scale way faster and larger than corporate blogs. It’s all about branding and communicating out of being a person, being human. After all, we don’t want to connect with our products – we want to connect with other people.

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