Future of work

We give people the perk and the luxury of being part of an internet-changing company from anywhere in the world. This mirrors the meritocracy that makes Open Source great and treats people on the quality of their ideas and their work whether they’re in San Francisco or Argentina. (Or if they started in San Francisco and moved to Argentina.)
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I really believe this is the future of work, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
Matt Mullenweg

WordPress for iOS

Just a quick test posting via the just released WordPress for iOS update!

InstaRoll, a WordPress plugin for Instagram

My friends at the italian production agency ROLL Studio have made this interesting WordPress plugin to interact with the immense Instagram photo-directory:

InstaRoll is a simple Instagram plug-in for creating WordPress posts from Instagram photos (both from user stream and by using a specific search tag).
You can browse photos in your user stream, or by the specified tag, import them into WordPress media library and link it to post, with the possibility of choosing between adding it as featured image (post thumbnail) or directly inside the post (default).
The posts created from Instagram photos can be saved as draft or directly published.

Read more on the project on it’s behance page.

ElmaStudio, a WordPress themes foundry to keep an eye on

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve discovered ElmaStudio‘s work.

First I fell in love with the (free) Ari theme. Then, while helping my friend Stef(igno) to update his (italian’s) blog we decided to invest  12€ in the Nilmini theme. Last week I provided (for free) to Ellen and Manuel an italian translation of that theme.

Then I’ve brought their Piha theme too just in time to see the previews, and later on the final release, of Nori. Nori aims to be (and probably is) the first WordPress theme out there developed mainly and in first place for mobile devices’ browsers, and later ‘adapted’ to normal ones.

Since they put their money were their mouth is they’ve adopted it on their website and so I had the chance to see a real deployment of that theme and not just a 5 post wide demo. Here are the screenshots!

(the last one is what you see enabling the Reader feature in Mobile Safari). What do you think of the theme?

Let me know in the comments…

Spam attack

Since I begun posting more regularly on these pages I’ve noticed a huge boost on spam comments gathering.

Even if Akismet does it’s job in a magnificent way (accuracy over 99,7%) I’d like a different kind of ‘success’ on this personal project of mine.

As you can see spam is 6 times more than last year, while overall visits shows a linear pace:

Does this happen also to your blog on WordPress.com ???

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an historical overview of /home/koolinus

a new look

A week ago the fine pals at Automattic made available the CHUNK theme for free on the platform.

I fell so in love with it to decide to adopt it and, doing so, make some changes in the widget & pages area which now have been revamped a bit. Hope you like the result. Anyway leave me a comment or suggestion on how you would improve the browsability of the site!

Thanks in advance,
Nicola

WordPress.com seen on mobile devices’s browsers