Just installed wordpress 2.5 on one of my blog to upgrade the RC2 version. Looks good on the admin side, I have seen some feed issue on rc1 and rc2 on IE6 where the feed in not loading correctly. It might be a theme issue or wordpress 2.5 itself. I cannot verify this latest version since i am not using anymore IE6. I have accessed only my site on some netcafe that have IE6 installed.

Here some news on Wordpress 2.5. Dougal Gunters blog.

First of all, in my post about Release Candidate 1, I mentioned that I had problems with the plugin updater. Since that time, I have been able to upgrade complex plugins with out a problem. I didn’t do extensive testing, but I feel like this is probably safer now. Other folks on the wp-testers mailing list have reported observed improvements similar to mine.

on wordpress development blog

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.

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Happy Easter everyone! No post for almost a month in terms of search engine optimization on this blog. I will continue to write some seo contest this coming weeks so stay tuned.

I am just caught  on some business matters so the time was not on me. Please expect some posting on this blog for the next coming weeks. Enjoy your vacation!

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Just giving my support to my SEO friends on SEOCOntest2008 battle. Below are the list and to my readers, hope you can also give some link love to them.

• Leo Mirabuna - SEOContest2008 (this is my entry on google penalty, lol)
• Jehzeel H. Laurente - Jehzlau’s SEOContest2008
• Benj Arriola - SEOContest2008.com
• Eligio Tapiador Jr. - SEOContest2008.org
• Chairell Winston Almendras - SEOcontest2008.mobi
• Gary Viray - EuroSEOContest2008.com
• Garry Baybayan - ItsOnMyTV:SEOContest2008
• Ed Canape - SEMLaguna:SEOContest2008
• Zaldy Dalisay - SEOContest2008Winner
• Kenneth Mendoza - Sabre9: SEOContest2008
• Dennis Cabase - SEOContest2008.me.uk
• Mito Pontillas - SEOContest2008.blogsome
• Moslemen ‘Jun’ Macarambon Jr. - SEOContest2008.info
• Neil Maranan - MySEOContest2008
• Edward Santillan - SEOContest2008 Dubai
• Cheryl Estorgio - SEOContest2008.SEMTitans
• Philip Tiangson - Philippine SEOContest2008
• IcezOrg - SEOContest2008.i.ph
• Eric Marantanan - Camaniugan SEOContest2008
• Allan Fernandez Duncan - Try SEOContest2008
• Almer Viloria - AJViloria’s SEOContest2008
• Kojak Eugenio - Kojak’s SEOContest2008
• Ricusa - Ricusa’s SEOContest2008
• Christian Lacsamana - SEOContest2008 Guide
• Francis Gerald Alcala - SEOContest2008 SEOContest2008
• Ronald Allan Mojica - Ronald’s SEOContest2008

Goodluck friends!

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A sneak peek on wordpress 2.5 rc1 is finally out for beta testing. Accordint to Mark of WebToolsCollections,

A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times

You can download the release here http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.5-RC1.zip if you want to test it and find bugs for better wordpress experience! I will try to install this on one of my blog to see how it goes and check the compatibility of some plug-ins and themes available at my end.

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Dougal Gunters blog just posted some information and plug-in compatibility issues on Wordpress 2.5. And some plug-ins don’t work yet on the system. And with the upcoming release on March 10, 2008 with wordpress 2.5, will you upgrade?

Another area to focus is the roadmap posted on the wordpress roadmap or planned version release of the blog platform.

Version                  Target Release Date
Wordpress 2.5     March 10, 2008
Wordpress 2.6    July 7, 2008
Wordpress 2.7    November 10, 2008

With the upcoming releases and open tickets in this area, I don’t think I will upgrade just yet. Will have to wait till the release becomes stable but the problem is a new version might pop up again. Is it wise to upgrade to it?

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Jotspot has been re-launch now sitting on Google sites.

Google Sites is the latest offering from Google Apps, a suite of
products designed to improve communication and collaboration
amongst employees, students, and groups. Google Sites makes
creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can
quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including
videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets — and
easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their
entire organization, or the world.

You can go to their site at http://sites.google.com if you want to try out the system and you need to be a user of Google Apps user.

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Would you like your client call you through your blog? An enhancement though in private beta stage GrandCentral through blogger buzz made another addition to its features by having a webcall feature that can be added to your blog and visitors can call you right at your site.

With GrandCentral, a free service from Google, you can receive phone calls and post voicemails right on your blog. Though GrandCentral is currently in a private beta test, bloggers can skip the wait and get a free account immediately. Sign up now

WebCall Button
When you add GrandCentral’s WebCall button to your blog, your readers can easily call your phone or leave voicemails without ever seeing your telephone number.

You can use Webcall according to Grandcentral to:

Use a WebCall Button to:

* Provide a way for potential customers to contact your business
* Control who calls you and block annoying people
* Meet new people without giving out your number
* Forward calls to your WebCall Button on eBay to a voicemail message about how great the listed item is
* Have fun: Use the WebCall button for constant updates on what you are doing. Here’s how - Set phone forwarding on your WebCall button to go to voicemail (so your phone isn’t always ringing) and then update your WebCall voicemail greeting as frequently as you like. Callers will hear the latest message you have when they call and can even leave messages for you.
* Have fun: Play music RingShares when people call from your MySpace page and a fun voicemail greeting for meeting new people

Currently it is offered only on US but you can sign-up and receive update if they will be available internationally. This is a great addition and of course free and connecting and possible clients calling you for business. For seo company that is offering search engine optimization it is good to have feature!

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My normal work to check the site I am working with was to check if the site was indexed on different search engine. And one caught my attention to see that it is well rank on google and yahoo but no where to see on MSN on showing sites mentioning it. Have the necessary files, authentication, sitemap submitted to webmaster live, since MSN is powered by Live Search and showing 1 indexed page and not blocking anything.

But searching it on MSN shows no results but just backlinks to the site. A further verification shows me this data.

MSN is indexing google translate - translated pages.  Going to the url that is indexed yields to the translated pages on the language that I don’t undestand that I believe a Russian translated pages.

I have emailed MSN about this issue if it is an issue (for me it is) and will just wait for them to reply to my feedback.

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