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WordPress Thelonious, New Optaros.com

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

WordPress 3.0, code-named Thelonious (as in Monk), has been released. That same day, but with somewhat less fanfare, we released a new Optaros.com, running on WordPress 3.0.

Here’s the overview video of what’s new in WordPress from the WP Dev blog:

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Screencast: Facebook Connect Social Shopping on Magento

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Here’s a quick (<2:30) screencast showing the basic functionality of Facebook Connect Social Shopping, a Magento Extension Optaros developed and released under an open source license. (Click the fullscreen icon to see it in a more legible size).

What do you think?

What’s holding retailers back from letting users get reviews from their social graph, not just from random strangers?

What would you like to see in future releases?

BuddyPress update: Video from WordCamp SanFrancisco

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Video from WordCamp San Francisco featuring Andy Peatling, the creator of BuddyPress, showing how it can be themed, extended, and used:

(via BuddyPress Developers Blog)

Also interesting that they’re using the VideoPress framework (discussed here) to deliver the videos from WordCamp.

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