September 2009
4 posts
The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks and months.
One of the items we worked on is a widget we call RSS Links, which allows you to display text and/or image links to the comment and post feeds of your blog.
No need to mess around with HTML in a...
Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all perfect writers or that we just forget to run the spell checker. I’m in the latter camp.
I don’t blame you — spell checkers are usually pretty lame. They are bad with most proper nouns and usually my problem isn’t...
Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader or Bloglines. You may not know what RSS is but chances are people are using it to read your blog. We track over 50,000,000 posts read via RSS every week. (Around a 18% addition to our on-site views!)
Today we turned...
I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way.
Our developers have been hard at work, too. In August, we launched the SoundCloud shortcode and WP.me, a URL shortener for WordPress blogs. And at your request, we introduced two new themes: iNove and Sandbox 1.6.1.
Here are...
August 2009
6 posts
In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among the lovely faces here) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us Happiness Engineers are putting our heads together to churn out some big ideas, we’ll be closing our email support system.
Support will be unavailable from 10 a.m. EST on Friday, August 28 to 4 a.m. EST on Monday,...
Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs.
Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry, they haven’t changed. However, we do urge you to check out 1.6.1.
Sandbox is a skeleton theme for WordPress. Though you can use it by itself, it’s mainly intended for dressing up with a custom Custom CSS...
We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as Beck, Moby and Sonic Youth now use the service to distribute tracks through their blogs and connect with their fans.
We’ve received many requests from WordPress.com bloggers that they would like us to work with SoundCloud to enable this service, and...
Check out this address:
http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten
If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways.
WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
Every blog and post on...
iNove by mg12 is one of the top themes used for self-hosted WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on WordPress.com. We’re always doing what we can to bring you the cool new stuff you want, so now you’ve got it, too! iNove for WordPress.com:
Some handy features of this theme:
Display pages or categories in the menu below your header.
Display your page...
We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.
Later in the month we introduced PollDaddy ratings and polls, the Gravatar widget, and the archives shortcode (one of many you can check out here).
Here are July’s stats:
394,609 blogs were created.
5,666,839 posts were...
July 2009
6 posts
You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our Categories, Tag Cloud, and Archives widgets do their parts, but we’ve come up with an extra little something that you may care to use.
Enter our newest shortcode – [archives].
This little guy will allow you to...
Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp your blog as your own!
If you’re not familiar with a Gravatar it’s a graphical representation used to identify yourself in WordPress blogs and other sites. It’s already built in to your WordPress.com account and...
PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our great features directly into the WordPress platform ever since.
Ratings
The PollDaddy rating feature that was enabled on WordPress.com last week has really started to see some use. Over 100k blog posts, pages and comments on WordPress.com are now being rated. If you need some help getting started,...
Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open source core product (like VideoPress, built-in polls, etc.). Because WordPress.com gets new features implemented as they are developed, we don’t usually talk too much about big version releases. For...
Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn donations for the charity of your choice. July will bring more feature updates, and more of the themes and customizations you’ve been asking for. We’re listening.
Here are the stats for June:
388,580 blogs were...
Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with great success!
There’s also NaBloPoMo, which has nothing to do with post-modernism, but with blogging! It stands for National Blog Posting Month.
It’s an even more fitting occasion for posting regularly...
June 2009
1 post
Rio Grande
May 2009
1 post
I’m TUMBRing From AIM! Im having a pretty busy year, and haven’t been able to blog that much lately!! If you want to talk to me, it would be better if you did it from Facebook, which I have been using more lately. OK well bye!
March 2009
1 post
Old Pictures!
Omg! I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in a while! I promise I will more this summer!!!
This weekend, I was at my grandma (Gagi)’s house, and I found a ton of old pictures from when I was a baby! They are soo funny! There is this really funny one of me and my cousin Meredith finger painting and stuff! I’ll put it on! Click here to see all of the pictures.
November 2008
1 post
Cameroid.com!
I LOVVVE IT! It is like Photobooth on the internet! LOVVE!
Davis Dollars!
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October 2008
4 posts
Choco Cake!
Ok, so I was sick for a day and I was by myself with no one to talk to but my dogs, and nothing to do. SO i made this chocolate cake!!!!!Posted by email from palmtrees’s posterous | Comment »
“1. A ganze Weil habn ma heut g’sunga und g’spielt
Und...”
Broken Phone!
I found this phone broken in the parking lot of our school. Just thought I would share…
LOVE IT!
Email me your thoughts at dsh72277@aim.com
Why Books Are Dangerous...
At my school, we are not allowed to carry our backpacks with us. So, we have to carry all our books in our hands. This is what my books did to me:
Should I sue? Email me and tell. palmtreesprod101@yahoo.com
September 2008
8 posts
Carolina Game and Waterbottle Bubbles!
Carolina Game And Waterbottle Bubbles! from Duke Davis on Vimeo
This weekend I went to the USC vs. Alabama Game. Here is a little snippet of it.
Beach Sweep!
This Saturday, a friend called me up and was all “Yo, Davis, you need to come to the beach sweep.” So I came. Just im case you don’t know what it is, the Beach Sweep is where you go to the Beach (DUH) and pick up trash!! Here are some Flickrs and Viddlers:
My fav quote: “Lets Keep Moving, I’m going to the right!”
To see the whole album CLICK HERE.
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Pee Bottle!!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!! As I was gonna get in the car, I stumbled across this pee-bottle. Eww. Nasty.Posted by email from palmtrees’s posterous | Comment »
YouTube Shirt!
I got the coolest shirt from eBay!!!! Here is a picture of it below:
What do you think????? EHH?!?!?!
BonQuiQui.
For weeks, kids at my school were buzzing with excitement about this new video on YouTube called “Bonquiqui”. “Have you seen Bonquiqui?” “What?!?!”
I thought it was some Magibon-Type-Thing. (We all know how that turned out)
So, finally, I checked it out. And I was literally Rolling On The Floor Laughing!
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
The Perfect "5"
While I was doing my Spanish Homework, I worte the most perfect “5” in the world!
Then I realized that i had to write “cinco” instead of 5. So, I took this picture begore I erased it.
Party!!!
YAYY!! I went to a Bar Mitzvah and after party last night. Here are some things I did:
1. LIMBO!!(ABOVE)
2. Ate LOTS and LOTS of Chocolate Fondue:
3. Drank Ginger Ale with cherries and a lime in it:
Wore some supadupa cool aviator sunglasses:
Wore a Yamaka:
And wore some pretty cool Party Attire:
Pretty Fun Party.
Cleaning... Or Not!
FOAM!!!!! from Duke Davis on Vimeo.
Yes, we were supposed to be cleaning the carpet with this junk, but that wasnt exactly what happened…….
FUNNNN!!!! To see the full album on our Photobucket account, CLICK HERE.
August 2008
13 posts
Banned from BlogTV!!
BLOGTV!!!!!! They banned me because I am to young!!!!! URG! I brought a lo of new veiwers to BlogTV, adnd they turn around and BAN ME? Oh, I’m SOOOO switching to Ustream!!
My New Obsession: CVS Brand Peach Rings!
Yep. I love them! Send me pics of them! palmtreesprod101@yahoo.com !!!
PS- the reason why I have that thing on my Shirt is because it said my school name…and my parents didnt like that…
Possessed Elmo.
Yep. Our Elmo was possessed.
Magibon Is Dead.
Most people already know the rage of “Magibon” has died down. But now, I guess she felt so sad about that that she Deleted all of her videos. AHHH!! All she does is stare at a computer and talk in Japanese. Sometimes we get lucky and she eats something. OOOH!
P.S- I promise the next blog post wont involve a screenshot…
Google's World Takeover
Google is everywhere. Movies. Internet. Space. Search Engines. YouTube Gmail. When I type the word “google” it doesn’t even highlight it in red. Now thats saying something…
I am a Yahoo! child, born and raised. I got my first yahoo email in 3RD grade, fell in love with it. I had never heard of Google before in my life. A few months ago, I decided to make a Blogger...
The Twitter "Manga" Phase
(To see this picture in fullscreen on flickr click here)
As you may have noticed on , a lot of people have been changing their profile pictures. One such person that is not changing their picture is iJustine or Justine Ezarik. According to this she will not be getting one either… how long till this Manga thing blows over? 1 Week? Two Weeks? A Month? A Year? No one knows. But I made one....
Fancy Salon Bathroom
Fancy Salon Bathroom from Duke Davis on Vimeo.
Yup. And here is another picture of it from flickr:
Flickr Photos Used in this post:
Car Wash!
On a recent trip <- {help} to the Liquid Highway Car Wash<- {help} i took this video. So, yeah. thats it. No more.
MY UTtERZ
Mobile post sent by palmtrees using Utterz. Replies. mp3
Apple Store = ♥
I recently visited the Apple Retail Store in Charleston. <-[help?](Picture above)
At the store I…
Made a Viddler Video <-[help: whats this?, click the link] on iMovie:
Took some pictures with Photo Booth <- [help?]
And touched an iPhone.
Now, I can finally declare my summer to be over. I have done the following things:
Touched an iPhone 3G,
Stayed on...
Fun At Lauren's House...
This is not even half of the fun I had at my friend Lauren’s house yesterday. As you have seen from the video, we made a trip to Blockbuster to get Heroes Season One. (Also, there is a “Fun At Blockbuster 2” if you want to watch it.) We took some pics with the mannequins at Blockbuster. Here are a few of them..
Once I got home, this is me watching Heroes:
Flickr Photos...
At Raising Cain's
Whilst we were gallabanting off in Georgia this weekend, we made a quick stop to the southern family resteraunt “Raising Canes”.
While we were there, we got our food, and our receipt like any other customer, (pictured below.)
Then, we realized that on the receipt, it said Evan H., by bro’s name.
Pretty weird, eh?
July 2008
15 posts
Chunky Meatloaf.
Today I have done the unspeakable. You probably don’t even want to read abou it on my blog or mini-blog on my website. Well, I’ll still tell you anyways.
Every Wednesday, my grandparents go to their church to eat din-din with their friends. As you may know from or or , I am at my grandparent’s house for this weekend. So, we went with them. Now, when I got my plate, I noticed...
Flip Video Underwater!
We had a little fun at our grandma’s house…… We put our flip video in a plastic bag and went underwater at our grandparent’s pool! Hope you enjoy the video…
The Dark Knight.
OK, Guess what? I went to see that new movie, the Dark Knight. It was exceptionally good. Here is a little mini-review of it:
Heath Ledger was the freakiest person in the world. ( RIP Heath)
Maggie Gyllenhaal is DEFINALEY no Katie Holmes, plus she is fat and has large nostrils.
Christian Bale was O.K in this movie, but nothing oscar-worthy,
This is the longest movie in the world, it is a...
Evan and the Charleston City Swim Meet.
OK, so my brother, Evan, and I both recently swam in the city swim meet. He ended up in the paper, while ended up nowhere. Poor me. :( WAHHHHHH!! I had to go two days and he only had to go half of one no fair. And these things are long!!! Ok, well I’ll show you the picture now.
I Ate An Artichoke And I Liked It (like the song.)
Ok, so I like just recently tried this thing called an artichoke. I took some pics of it. As you can see form the picture below, I was a little hesitant at the beggining.<
Here is the stages of em eating an artichoke.
And here is the one of me enjoyinh the last little bit of it.
Mmmm. Mmmm. Good.