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Submission + - 50 sites in 10 months with one WordPress-based CMS (automattic.com)

Submitted by TechnoLute on Thursday July 16, 2009 @01:49PM

TechnoLute writes: Need more evidence that WordPress can be used as a "serious" publishing platform? The folks at Tierra Innovation and WNET.ORG (Channel Thirteen in New York) have put together a white-paper detailing how they now roll out 5-10 high-traffic, high-quality Web sites each month — at a fraction of the cost once spent creating 1-2 sites in the same time. The secret sauce? The same open-source WordPress software many of us use for our seldom-updated blogs.

The white paper describes how this project came about and how they ultimately decided on WordPress as the platform of choice. Using WordPress MU's built-in features along with custom themes and plugins (such as WPDB Profiling), WNET.ORG can now roll out multiple sites that provide a great user experience as well as editorial and creative flexibility.

Comment Not really increasing compared to domain names (Score 4, Informative) 183

by Rovastar on Friday June 26, 2009 @05:13PM (#28488423) Attached to: Domain-Name Wars, Rise of the Cybersquatters

According to netcraft in the last year there has been about 40% increase in fully qualified domain names out there (includes subdomains not just top level so not a perfect stat but a good indication)

June 2008 172,338,726 FQDNs (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/06/index.html)
June 2009 238,027,855 FQDNs (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/06/17/june_2009_web_server_survey.html)

So really you could say that cyber squatting is decreasing relative to the increase in domain names........

Not really increasing compared to domain names

Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries 450

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @03:17PM from the humbly-meeting-customer-demands dept.

OhMyBattery writes "The latest firmware updated for Panasonic digital cameras contains one single improvement: it locks out the ability to use 'non-genuine Panasonic' batteries. It does so for safety reasons, it says. It seems to indicate that this is going to be the norm for all new Panasonic digital cameras. From the release: 'Panasonic Digital Still Cameras now include a technology that can identify a genuine Panasonic battery. For the protection of our customers Panasonic developed this technology after it was discovered that some aftermarket 3rd party batteries do not meet the rigid safety standards Panasonic uses.' The firmware warning is quite clear as to what it does: 'After this firmware update your Panasonic Digital Camera cannot be operated by 3rd party batteries (non genuine Panasonic batteries).'"

On the Feasibility of Single-Server MMOs 316

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 15, 2009 @03:40AM from the where-are-my-ten-thousand-player-battles dept.

GameSetWatch takes a look at the issues involved in creating an MMO that does not split its users among many different servers. They suggest that running a single "shard" is the next step in the evolution of MMOs, since it better allows player choices to have a meaningful impact on the game world; supporting different outcomes across multiple shards is a technical nightmare. They estimate, from the hip, that the cost to develop the technology required to support a massive amount of players (i.e. far more than EVE Online) on a single server to be roughly $100 million. Another recommendation is the strong reliance on procedural and user-generated content creation to fill a necessarily enormous game world.

Comment Re:Corporate users (Score 1) 409

by Rovastar on Monday July 21, 2008 @01:27PM (#24277237) Attached to: Internet Users Not Updating Browser

I agree, many corps have a similar attitude and therefore the stats are become more meaningless. There area a lot of corp workers that use older browsers and cannot/will not upgrade. What use is a message on Google for those people.

I atm work for Vodafone running their intranet. The browser policy is IE6.

Also how are they a browser can be out of date and unpatched and there is no way for the website to know this. They can only look at the user agent string to find this out and that will only tell you what browser version they are using not the patch level of it in say IE. It will just say 5.5, 6 or 7 or 8, etc.

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