WPWeekly Episode 69 – Grava what

In this episode, David Peralty and a few others join me to talk about the news of the week. Most of the news stories deal with Automattic owned services such as IntenseDebate and Polldaddy rather than WordPress. One of the discussion points focused on why Gravatar has not yet made it mainstream. While the audio quality is not so great in this episode, I hope you’ll be able to listen through it for this particular conversation.

Ad Copy:

This episode of WordPress Weekly is sponsored by WebDevStudios.com. WebDevStudios would like to announce the launch of their new project, WPClassroom.com! WPClassroom.com is dedicated to providing high quality professional WordPress training using the most powerful online training software powered by Cisco WebEx. Reserve your seat today at WPClassroom.com! By the way, use the coupon code wptavern when sigining up and that will take off $5.00 on the first class on September 9th.

Stories Discussed:

Gravatar.com Gets A Facelift
Why isn’t Gravatar Main Stream Yet?
Open Source CMS Awards
IntenseDebate Future Features
WP E Commerce Integration With IntenseDebate
PollDaddy Style Editor

WordPress Tavern Listener Poll:

Last weeks poll question was: Do you think the Codex is the future of documentation for WordPress?

Out of a total of 45 votes, 23 of you said Yes, 20 of you said No while 2 of you wanted to know what is a Codex.

This Weeks Poll Question Is: Have You Enjoyed Your Stay At The Tavern So Far?

Picks Of The Week:

Jeff – IRCLogs.wordpress.org – Enables you to see the log file for the bbPress, BuddyPress development, WordPress development, WordPress, and WPMU IRC channels. The log file page also provides a nifty bar of options at the top where you can easily switch channel logs, view log files from the past few months, or perform a search. So if you can’t catch those WordPress developer chats on Thursdays, this is the place to go to read the log file of the meeting.

David – Widget Context Plugin – Kaspars – http://konstruktors.com/blog/

Last Weeks WordPress Trivia Question:

What is the name of the new part time employee Automattic recently hired? (by the way, John is full time)

WordPress Trivia Answer:

John Godley

This Weeks Trivia Question

In a recent interview, Matt was asked if he were to start another project, along the same lines as WordPress but had nothing to do with blogging, what would it be?

Announcements:

On Thursday August 27th at 2PM Eastern Daylight Time, we’ll be interviewing Adii of WooThemes. The special date and time is due to Adiis geographic location.

WPWeekly Meta:

Next Episode: Friday August 28th, 2009 8P.M. EST

Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe

Length Of Episode: 51 Minutes

Download The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode69.mp3

Listen To Episode #69: