I was banned from WordPress today, and that’s a good way to begin this post

I took me 3 days, 1 WordPress bug and a few programmers getting pixxed off enough to ban me, as all the previous times that I insinuated there was an issue in WP core. But it was worth it.

You’ll see: Some people like to offer help ( like in forums )  under their conditions, that even happens to me sometimes, but when that person ALSO has the POWER to moderate the forums AND is the one others will blame to when the bug comes up to light, their conditions include “or else”. For me all that only seconds “solve and help”.

Anyway, the price I paid is less than what you’d pay if you hired someone to fix it for you. This can’t be fixed by any canonical plugin so understanding this WordPress bug will save you a few bucks… and and will make SEO and WordPress devs hate you! hehe (more…)

Subversion GUIs are not made for Mac users, yet.

I mean, we, Mac users, are used to friendly interfaces, which don’t require more than 10% of knowledge about the system/mechanics behind we are dealing with. That 10% (or less, please!) is what we expect to be in the documentation, and today’s internet-age users would like to be one page long at most.

Unfortunately, SVN apps (clients?) documentation are STILL several pages long, and although I’m sure our issue is user-related, if such documentation is that long, that’s not a user anymore, but a slave.

For all of you, like me, who like Apple-style easy apps (more…)

I released my new Plugin to showcase your Facebook photo albums to WordPress, with a nice animated interface using jQuery, not flash, so your get rid of another bag of flash

Here’s a Live demo which looks like the image below:

Here’s the official page for Darkroom facebook photo gallery where you can comment and get help:

Con la coordinación de un tipo super macanudo, una mezcla de Caniggia y Dolina, Claudio Albornoz se llevó a cabo el primer evento del “Social Media Week Buenos Aires” en la Universidad de Palermo, con la participacion de los siguientes expertos en el tema:
Leandro Zanoni->Tercerclick, Alejandro Piscitelli->Profesor la UBA, Claudio Albornoz->Enlace Social, Hernan Nadal->Greenpeace Argentina, Antonio Peña->Mobile Monday Buenos Aires, Vane de Matthaeis->Wunderman, Gisella Buzzi->Zag Group, Martin Hazzan->Nextperience y Walter Ioli->DDB.

Los temas fueron dos, “La Red y yo: ¿Cómo hacemos Social Media los argentinos?” y “Social Media y Publicidad: ¿Desafío a la creatividad?” y cubrieron varios temas que tocan de cerca al social media en español, para los que no navegan internet en inglés un mínimo de 3 horas por día. Para todos los demás, probablemente en esa sala, nos quedará seguir creando ideas de como aprovecharla sin buscar respuestas en otros lados.

Luego de hacer websites los ultimos años y meterme de lleno a los blogs y SEO en INGLES, este evento me dió la impresión (espero equivocarme) de que Argentina es un país generoso, y que aún no hay (more…)

Re-designing your website could be the beginning of the end of its fair PageRank!

The scenario: You’ve got a new cooler design.

That’s ok, so far. Now sit down and think carefully whether your designer is as good SEO or social media specialist as designer.

There are a lot of reasons why your PageRank (value of your site on search engines, the holly tablets) could be lost, and Re-designing a website brings most of them up. I’m not a professional SEO as my partner is, but I can tell you a few of them, but most important (more…)

Seconds after I published the article about the release of Downloads Box, I received the first comment about it. Flek wanted to know whether this plugin would work as a sidebar widget.

I though, “such an automated plugin must already exist – actually I replied so to the comment – and I don’t want to help spammers to build automated downloads websites full of spammy links pointing to internal looping nowhere”. (more…)

Traffic is god, content gets traffic and downloads are hot content!

One of the Marketing techniques to increase traffic and authority is to offer goodies for your visitors to download.

Downloads Box increases your blog interaction by (more…)

Left: Original image enlarged 300% to show pixels.
Right: Compressed image with the lowest quality, enlarged 300% too.

Many of you who use Photoshop may know more or less how JPG works, and some of you might have a deep knowledge about the algorithm that makes our photos look bad or allows them to be quickly loaded in browsers. This post is for those who know bigger is better, but don’t know why an image gets heavier or lighter.
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