A customer asked me to install an MP3 player into their WordPress blog. I searched the WP Plugins directory for “mp3 player” and found several that either had too many features or required you to jump through hoops to get an audio file into place. Many required use of manually constructed [tags] to insert the player into a page. [READ MORE...]
Resumes, printable coupons, eBooks, and many other type of documents are prepared for distribution and printing as an Adobe PDF, (Portable Document Format), file.
If you have PDF files that you want to make available for download on your blog, follow these easy steps:
Somewhere between a full blown community portal and blogging is a small niche — multi-user blogging.
The idea is that you run a site and allow each member to have their own blog, and it’s all connected under one content management system.
If this sounds interesting, and you’re looking for software to do it, you might want to check out WordPress MU, (the MU stands for Multi User).
If you’re looking to have more features and want everything controlled under a single unified login / user management model, take a look at “BuddyPress“, (still in BETA, but looks promising).
BuddyPress is an extension for WordPress MU that adds most of the common social media functionality — “friending”, media galleries, user-to-user messaging, chat, forums, user activity streams and more.
If the software is anything like Wordpress in reagrds to being easy to install, easy to configure, and attracts even some of the legions of plug-in, widget and theme developers that make Wordpress better than most other blogging software, then BuddyPress is sure to be a hit.
Common Name: NetModular
Niche: SaaS – social Networking for Business
What they say about themselves: “Netmodular sites are not part of some amateur Network, we create beautiful and effective Social Networks that delight users and enhance your brand.” -Jesse Tayler, CEO, Netmodular Community”
What I say about NetModular: At $9500 for setup and $10k a year, NetModular is aiming to shake a few bucks from the corporate blog wanna be’s — as Frank Zappa would say, “strictly commercial”… although I think Frank would have hired someone else if he was around for Web 2.0.
