Isaac Keyet

Just read about this, Swedish official iPhone carrier Telia will soon offer an application that, for the first time, makes MMS messaging possible with the iPhone. The company that has developed this iPhone app is called Mobispine AB, and their press release of the product looks promising. Apparently it’s a white-label solution that Telia will get in on.

While many people argue that you might as well send an email with the image you just took, fact is most older phones don’t support email reading in a manageable fashion, plus most users would not set up an email account anyway.

I’ve not used IRC before, but now I have to since most of Automattic’s internal discussions are happening in an IRC channel. So I was looking around, trying to find general IRC commands but didn’t find anything. So here’s what I’ve learned so far:

/join #roomnamehere
To join a chat room within an IRC channel, type the above. Ex: /join #gamechat.

/nick newnickhere
To change your nickname in a room, type /nick newnicknamehere. Ex: /nick fred.

/topic topichere
This is to set the topic of an IRC room. Ex: /topic Support cases.

/me raises his hand
Will output your nick followed by the message. Example: “borat raises his hand” (Thanks Nick!)

/whois nickname
shows nickname’s information
//whois $me
shows your information
//part $chan (reason)
leaves channel with a reason (Thanks Firas for these!)

That’s what I’ve found out so far. Feel free to give me more tips in the comments, and I’ll add them to the list!

I’m happy to report that the fabled second version of our IntenseDebate plugin is now out there, running wild. We’ve had incredible numbers of installs the past few days, and it’s a lot of fun seeing it being used.

The biggest change with the new plugin is that it automatically syncs comments back and forth between your WordPress DB and the IntenseDebate servers. This means that once the initial import is completed, you should always have the same set of comments showing up in IntenseDebate on your blog posts, as in your WordPress database. So if a reader has JavaScript turned off for some reason, they’ll still be able to comment and participate in a conversation using your native commenting system - and the comments will still show up in IntenseDebate for everyone else! And if you ever chose to leave, no problem, your comments are right there in your database already. No need to export.

I could go on and on (you can tell I’m pretty excited), but here are the biggest highlights of the new WordPress plugin: www.intensedebate.com/wordpress

So true…