Yahoo Shortcuts, This Might Be Useful
Yahoo decided it needed to promote some of it services by making a WordPress plugin that allows you to add Yahoo based info to your post. It “reviews” your post as you write it to see what useful extra information it can add. Like, give a location, and you can add a Yahoo map to your post.
Like the example adds a map to the University of Texas when you mention it, since people might happen to know where Austin is but not where UT is. Here’s a hint, go to Austin, and bam, there’s UT.
Buit alright, you can get useful Flickr photos for your post. Let’s see what it recommends for this post. O wait, it doesn’t work with the Wordpress version, crap. I did install it on another blog that has an updated version of Wordpress.
You might be wondering why I have a really outdated version of Wordpress. It’s because it’s hard to update Wordpress. Here’s how I update everything on my computer, apt-get update. For Wordpress, you need to copy everything a couple of times, wget latest.tgz, change the user and pass it uses for MySQL (it usually doesn’t have create or delete privileges), and then have to make sure everything works, which something of course broke during that.
Anyways, copying this over to my other blog and looking at the rcommendations, it allows me to “Search the Web” for University of Texas, Flickr photos, and Wordpress, and the Flickr photos recommendations are all UT based and have nothing other than the UT related to it. Trying to load more photos though, doesn’t work. It’ll load maybe a couple photos then just do nothing.
Sorry Yahoo, but this just isn’t that useful. It might have looked good on paper, but it just has such a limited use. The Flickr photo addition could be useful, but in this case, it definitely wasn’t.
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