JoomlaShack.com surveyed over 3,600 individuals who use the Joomla CMS. The survey yielded some very interesting results. The findings state:

“Perhaps one of the more surprising results, this seems to imply that Joomla finds more users in the business community than the non-profit world. One possibility however, is that these are web designers using Joomla for their clients of all types.”

Questions on what other CMS’s are used by these individuals bought up the usual suspects; Wordpress followed by drupal.

Read the entire report here.

Rap Game Moghul Dame Dash has started what he calls BlockSavvy a Hooded out version of Myspace, as if Myspace pages weren’t ghetto enough!

Business 2.0 reports:

So, given a choice, who would Dash rather be: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? “Which one got more money?” Dash shoots back. Gates has more money, but Jobs is cooler. “Yeah, but if I was Bill Gates, Bill Gates would be cooler,” Dash says. “Definitely.”

Read the entire article here.

I came accross this very interesting job opening on Yahoo’s hotjobs.com. They are looking for someone with 3 years of experience with Wordpress to manage their blogs on NYtimes.com. If you have been to Nytimes.com in the last year you will see their push to incorporate Web 2.0 technology. Its cool to see how many major sites have adopted opensource for at least their blogging needs instead of creating their own proprietary platform.

Here’s the job description:
NYTimes.com, the #1 newspaper site with 1.7 million worldwide visitors a day, is seeking an experienced Wordpress Developer to manage our highly-trafficked and growing set of blogs (http://www.nytimes.com/blogs). The blogs have all been highly customized to fit into the NYTimes technology stack and publishing environment. Beyond having deep experience with the Wordpress platform and its plug-ins, the ideal candidate will be a savvy, all-around web applications developer who is comfortable in a LAMP environment.

Oh, and the pay is not listed.

Mashable.com has a nice roundup of websites that help “track your every move”. Sounds weird right? But there are some benefits to sharing information like what websites you visit, what videos you watch, what programs you use… (ah well, aleast with your friends).

Check it out here:

http://mashable.com/2007/06/16/stalking2/

Usman blogged about it not being fair that Google could take pictures on bridges. Time Magazine raises the same point.

Time Magazine Excerpt:

Is that man breaking into an apartment building? Does that tollbooth
operator realize she’s being photographed? And isn’t it illegal to have
cameras in New York’s Brooklyn Battery tunnel?

Such questions have been raging online in recent weeks, as Google’s
new” Street View” has sent techies scrambling to browse through the
miles and miles of street-level photos now available through Google
Maps. But while such blogs as BoingBoing.net and Mashable.com have made
something of a joke out of the many humorous (a man apparently caught
mid-sneeze), bizarre (the ghost of E.T.?) and lewd (a woman’s underwear
poking out of her low-riding jeans) images captured by the web giant,
privacy concerns have led many watchdog groups to quickly retort that
Street View is no laughing matter.

Read the entire artice here.

Its Official, Feedburner has been purchased. The feedburner team has blogged about it, in order to shed light on what this means for the future. If you visit any blog which is run for commercial purposes, you will find that they use feedburner to distribute their feeds. Reason being that for a commercial blogger stats mean everything. Advertisers will only consider a blog which has proven its worth. With feeds content can be viewed in other ways than by pages being loaded in browsers (thats the whole point of a feed!). So bloggers need a different way to determine their readership. Now that Google has taken them over, you can sure bet to see adsense integration. I just hope they won’t make it as complicated as analytics which I’m still struggling to understand (the reports are kind of bizarro). Oh FB has also put out a FAQ on the aquisition.

This thing is crazy man. Check out another video here.

There’s a really good Comparison Chart here. Ayaz and I had this discussion a while ago, when we first created our respective blogs using Joomla. We quickly realized the shortcomings the Joomla CMS had when it came to blogging. For starters it didn’t have a built in commenting or tagging (taxonomy) system. When I complained about this on the joomla forums I was told that Joomla wasn’t going to cater to any specific crowd (i.e. bloggers). The point was made that Joomla is used for all types of sites, and 3rd party plugins were available to customize your site. As a developer in the back of my mind I also knew that if I wanted something really well integrated I would either have to wait a really long time or just develop something myself.

This site is my first attempt at working Drupal and I have to say that having blogging and commenting modules built in really makes a difference when deciding between Drupal or Joomla, well at least when picking between the two for a blogging platform.

I have also worked with Wordpress and I think thats the best platform for people who just want to blog. Drupal might be a step above that if you want your site to be more feature rich. I think as of now Joomla is the most extensive (Look at the camparison chart to see what Joomla has that Drupal doesn’t). Joomla also has a ton of extensions to play with developed by third party developers.

I’m going to continue to work with all of them to understand their ins and outs. I will develop my next group project in Drupal. Will keep you updated…..

http://www.azeemkhan.info/tech/

Check it out… I’m finally getting around to messing with others Content Management Systems other than Joomla. I’ve decided to totally dedicate this new Blog to technology related material. My first post is on an interview Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did together at the D5 conference.

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Source (see the rest here, This video is the first of 7):
http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070530/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-together-par…

It was cool seeing this take place. I should have known there was so much history between the two since they are both pioneers. The hosts of this interview lacked personality, but at least they posed interesting enough questions to get things going.