August, 2010

  1. New Permanent Author Rates on Envato Marketplaces! →

    It is beyond comprehension to me that people are happy about these rates. The developer only gets 25% of the sale? In order to get 50-70% of the sale you have to agree to only distribute the theme/plugin through Envato?

    This is ridiculous. Some of these things are GPL, which means the end user has more distribution rights than the developer does. Maybe people just tweak something to create an :scare: exclusive :/scare: version to sell on the Envato sites.

    In a standard business relationship a sales person gets 10-15% commission on a sale. People think that the 30% Apple charges in the app store is a bit high.

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  2. Vote for these SxSWi WordPress Panels

    It’s that time of year to promote your SxSW panels. I’m slated for two WordPress panels I’d like you to consider voting for. Beyond Blogging: WordPress is a CMS – much of the work that we do at Crowd Favorite is creating advanced CMS websites with WordPress. It’s what’s driven us to create the Carrington…

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  3. Interesting Registrar Scheme?

    I received an email recently from someone offering to sell me a domain that is a variation of my name. I own a lot of domains already, including a number of TLD variations of my name so I decided to pass on this one, but the offer was interesting. I did a check and saw…

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  4. Cheaper MiFi Option

    I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier, but instead of going month-to-month with a Verizon MiFi, I can simply set up a family plan and add my Palm Pre Plus as a second line (it has the free HotSpot feature). Total cost over my existing plan should be about $20/month. The MiFi…

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  5. Twitter Tools 2.4 (OAuth Support)

    Version 2.4 of my Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress is now available. Twitter Tools creates a full two-way integration between your WordPress site and Twitter. You can send your posts to Twitter, archive your tweets and create posts from them, and more. This version has the following changes and is a must upgrade due to…

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  6. Around the web

    App Store Try Before You Buy – agree 100%. Confession #76: Im Blogging From My Shower – “When is the last time you did something creative on your computer – written a blog post or a letter, worked in Photoshop, or even read a long article – without allowing yourself to be interrupted by the…

  7. Twitter Tools OAuth Update

    Quick update: I still hate the user experience I’m stuck with implementing, but we’ve got it working. I expect to push out an update to the plugin Sunday that will replace the current authentication with OAuth. Assuming all goes well, this version will merely be a stopgap. I plan to replace it with a new…

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  8. Carrington Build Q&A

    I’ve been collecting questions for the last few days for an O’Grady-style Q&A on Carrington Build. Is Carrington Build a plugin or a theme? Carrington Build isn’t a traditional WordPress product (a single theme or plugin). It is probably best thought of as the foundation or feature of a theme (for example, a component of…

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  9. Carrington Build Pricing Structure

    The reaction to yesterday’s launch of Carrington Build has been overwhelming. We knew we had created something we were proud of, but it’s extremely gratifying to see so many other people excited about it as well. My post yesterday was pretty long and really only scratched the surface. For example, I didn’t go into details…

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  10. Introducing Carrington Build

    Over the last few years I’ve loved building a team and creating great things for our clients, but I’ve missed building products. A little more than a year ago, we started work on a system that I’ve had in the back of my mind for (quite literally) years. This work has resulted our first commercial…

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