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Personal Presence using Wordpress and AIR
Aditya Mukherjeehttp://adityamukherjee.com/geekaholic
http://twitter.com/aditya
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Idea
• Complete online presence
• Open / Free / Easy
• Offline management tools
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Idea
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Wordpress Adobe AIR
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Idea
• Complete online presence
‣ Gallery
‣ Weblog
‣ Networking
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Idea
• Open / Free / Easy
‣ Anybody can add features
‣ Anybody can build on it
‣ Your content, your rules
‣ Famed 5 minute installation
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Idea
• Offline management tools
‣ Offline organisation
‣ Open / Free
‣ Single function apps
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Current
Picasa
YouTube
Orkut
Microsoft
Soapbox
Spaces
Photos
SingleFunction Sites
FlickrZooomr
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Current
• DiSo Project
‣ Plugins
‣ Bring social network aspects to WP
‣ Limited opportunity of growth
• BuddyPress
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Advantages
• WP is already open / free / easy
• Interoperability is baked in
• Contains elements of CMS
• Wordpress is “the giant”
Why Wordpress
— use its shoulders
— trackbacks
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Advantages
• Very low barrier to entry
• Writing apps is as easy as making websites
• Most mature runtime today
• Cross platform
Why AIR
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Plan
• Wordpress needs to focus
‣ Don’t try to be everything to everyone
‣ Maintain two versions
‣ Different interface / terminologies
Wordpress
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Plan
• Wordpress CMS’ should have social features baked in
‣ Plugins are yuck!
‣ Third party additions have handicaps
‣ Learn from Mozilla (Firefox), Windows
Wordpress
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Plan
• Distributed experience should be done right
‣ Biggest reason for Facebook’s success — integrated / under one roof
‣ Experience can only be as good as lowest common denominator
Wordpress
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Plan
• AIR is not ready for serious applications
‣ Memory / CPU efficiency
‣ Half baked support for open technologies
‣ Better debugging tools
AIR
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Plan
• Models / Guides for developers
‣ Lead by example
‣ Developers of the platform know best
‣ JS based app should get equal priority
AIR
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Plan
• Better visibility
‣ Platform is as strong as it’s developer base
‣ AIR’s most popular app is Tweetdeck — and it’s a mess
AIR
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
