http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXdmbgSZtDw It was great meeting you Daniel and even getting a few moments with you on camera! We had a blast and thanks for this quick little “happy” video of last weekend’s event – man, was that fun.
We briefly referenced Product Pier on a Weekend Roundup, a hosted eCommerce solution that has yet to be fully revealed, and we went ahead and signed up for some updates so as to stay in the loop as they continue to develop the system out. Paul Brody, one of the founders, recently sent out a request for more information so that they can build the best product possible as well as sharing more information about where they are headed: Our core passion at ProductPier is to help other entrepreneurs and in this regard, specifically entrepreneurs within the eCommerce space. The […]
We’re having a blast this week with WordCamp starting up tomorrow and our Jelly Event today (still going on)! We’ve met a bunch of folks that we had just known online only and now real tweeps are becoming peeps. Or something like that. As a result, we’re trying to sit down and catch up with as many people as possible and even having an interview or two if we can. This first one was very “off the cuff” with Daniel Espinoza, a Support Ninja @ WooThemes, blogs about development and business at http://danielespinoza.me and he and his wife are living a Life with […]
WooThemes just released WooCommerce 2.0, their ever popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress. They added a variety of new features in the new version ranging from improved security (approved by Sucuri) to advanced inventory management. All of these features make WordPress a more viable candidate as a platform to develop a fully-featured eCommerce site. As a result, I want to take a personal look at it and give you my thoughts from on some of the major features and why it may be time to take a serious look at it, if you already haven’t.
Adii Pienaar took some time out with The East Wing and talked about how he got started with computers, his constant tinkering with new ideas, how culture impacts a great business, and how this played into the development of WooThemes. I love this interview because it really provided a lot of backstory for how it got started (with Mark Forrester and Magnus Jepson). Take a listen after the jump:
Hope you guys had a great week! It’s already into March, can you believe it? We’re nearly 25% of the way through 2013. Someone pinch me, seriously, because it’s moving way too fast. Here’s your weekly rundown of what you may have missed that wasn’t explicitly covered here on WP Daily. Let us know if we missed anything or if we need to subscribe to a particular blog and what not! I think you should at least take a look at #3, $22, #24, and #26. Those are must-reads, especially #24 on remote management.
More than 2 years ago WooThemes created their own graphical depiction of the WordPress universe as they saw it, showcasing some of the major personalities and theme shops that were in the ecosystem at the time. Since then, a lot has changed and the graphical depiction if done today would look very different – perhaps at some point they will re-do their work but a lot of it is still very relevant today. We thought it had to be a part of our new home office for WP Daily but we couldn’t find anywhere to purchase such a fine artifact of […]
Earlier this week Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, issued an internal memo to Yahoo! employees detailing changes within the company. The memo detailed changes to Yahoo!’s remote working policy, and it was made clear that remote-working or working from home was no longer a benefit at Yahoo!. The memo itself was a great positive-negative-positive message. One of those memos where there is a sword ripping through your gut half way through but the smile at the beginning and end is supposed to make everything ok.
It’s been a relative “light” week as I look back on the past 7 days – although we’ve had a record amount of posts published this past week the other sources of news articles has been relatively small. And when I say “small” I don’t mean small-small as there’s always a lot going on. Just compared to the previous week I suppose. I’m rambling. In anycase, here are some great articles that you may have missed that we didn’t cover – and don’t forget to enter into our BlogDroid Giveaway!
WooThemes has announced that they are now partnering with Codeables as a strategic outsourcing team to help do much of the custom design and development work that is often thrown at the WooThemes team directly. This makes an incredible amount of sense and is something that most, if not all, premium theme companies (and free distributors of themes and plugins) face: The onslaught of requests for custom work. Knowing this from first-hand experience I believe that what WooThemes has done is both strategic and wise in terms of their own resources focusing their time on their core products instead of […]
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