This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and developers are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. To celebrate this, we’re throwing a WordPress BBQ at SxSW tomorrow so that there’s a place for us all to get together.

If you’re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you just happen to be in Austin), please join us for lunch after 12pm* tomorrow, Sunday March 14. We’re getting the BBQ from Rudy’s and the red velvet cake from Central Market. Yum! Come, eat, talk about the cool things you’re doing with WordPress, let us know what we can do better, gossip about Mark Jaquith’s new hairstyle, whatever. Think of it like a WordCamp without presentations. I’ll be there, lead developers Mark Jaquith and Ryan Boren will be there, core contributors will be there, plugin and theme developers will be there, and basically all the most intelligent and attractive people from SxSW will be there. You should be, too!

Location: Conjunctured coworking space, 1309 East 7th St., Austin, TX 78702. From the convention center, walk up to 7th Street, hang a right, and walk until you get to #1309. If you’re tired of walking, taking a cab is a decent option. Note that this is on the other side of I-35 from the convention center.

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* We’ll keep serving until we run out of food, so probably until around 2 or 3? We’ll have a hundred pounds of bbq meat, a bunch of sides, and dozens of gallons of iced tea, so come hungry.

We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently came out with persona support, allowing users to skin their browsers with favorite designs and brands. WordPress users everywhere seem to love the W symbol (at WordCamps it shows up on everything from t-shirts to iPhone skins), so it was only natural that WordPress personas would come along.

To kick it off, designer Chad Pugh created two WordPress personas based on the WordPress brand: “Vintage Press” and “Inkwell.” These two designs are a great way to show the WordPress love, even if you’re only showing it to yourself.

	The “Vintage Press” Persona is inspired by the style of old-fashioned printing presses and the mechanics of working with type. This persona might appeal to WordPress developers and users who appreciate the way things work under the hood.
“Inkwell” is more of a palimpsest* & watercolor hybrid that might appeal to the artists among us. Music, script and spills of color combine…

Okay, I’m starting to feel like an art critic so I’ll stop there. Check out the WordPress personas for Firefox and decide for yourselves.

* I never thought I would have occasion to use the word “palimpsest” in a dev blog post. Never.

The CEO/President of Seochampion Michael Rotkin tackles his background on the internet and SEO. In this video, he is explaining what his SEO firm can offer to his clients, which includes seo, sem, website development and iphone app development.

The CEO/President of universityloveconnection.com and hydroponicswholesale.com Michael Rotkin was interviewed by Mike Mcdonald back in 2005 about his impressions of SES San Jose 2005. It was the last day lunch time of saturday. The interview is informal. Mike Mcdonald asked if the purpose of Michael Rotkin in attending the SES San Jose 2005 is to learn information about algorithms and seo organic techniques. Michael Rotkin answered with confidence that the main purpose of attending SES San Jose 2005 is to gain knowledge about link popularity and algorithms. He added that he actually learned a lot especially to Dr. Garcia and Yahoo!

The conversation is getting more interesting. Mike Mcdonald asked Michael Rotkin if he is satisfied with the investment he had for SES, meaning the time, money and effort. Well, it was nice to hear that everything is worth it. The most interesting question Mike Mcdonald asked is the two or three things that Michael Rotkin will bring home and use immediately. The respected CEO/President of universityloveconnection.com and hydroponicswholesale.com answered that he will start changing contents as far as making it friendlier to users. He is trying his best and even put his self to the position of retail customers. He actually had a good strategy because he is trying to add more content that can attracts customers through thinking about the possible inquiries and the words they want to hear that will lead of finding his stuff, the universityloveconnection.com and hydroponicswholesale.com. Copying is not really good so he remove all copied from his site. Attending the SES really help Michael Rotkin to gain a lot of knowledge that makes him well known in SEO. One of the things he learned from SES San Jose 2005 is link popularity specifically how to check and evaluate links using things like link queries and how to evaluate them.

Another question that really caught the attention of many people reading about the informal interview that was written in webpronews.com by Mike Mcdonald is if Michael Rotkin will focus on optimizing content for specific search terms or phrases or having a good content that natural develops and take care of itself from the most part. The answer of Michael Rotkin is interesting. He is planning to create good content for each page on an individual basis and treat them as distinct opportunities that will lead on resulting different phases and keywords. He is actually going to focus on 15-30 pages and also to noun words and avoid action verbs and action words.

During the interview, they also tackled about Google Maps. It is a web mapping service application and technology offered by Google. It is helpful to locate different location, which includes locating businesses of a certain type in a geographic area. Mike Mcdonald asked if Michael Rotkin heard about Google site maps and if he is planning to use it. The answer was simple. He heard about it on the last session he attended on crawlers and will work on it. Well, it really shows that Michael Rotkin is not stop on learning new things because he is making sure to attend important session that will help him to increase his knowledge.

The interview happened between Michael Rotkin and Mike Mcdonald is worth reading for because they brought out very interesting information that can really attracts the attention and interest of readers

The well known webpronews Mike Mcdonald talks to the CEO of SEOChampion.com Michael Rotkin at PubCon Las Vegas 2007 about his current projects. Michael Rotkin answered the question without a doubt. He said he is giving attention on link building and also working with lots of local organizations and charities.

Aside from that they also tackled about traditional web search and mobile search. In the video below, you will actually hear the explanation of Michael Rotkin about the difference between traditional web search and mobile search:

According to blog.readycontacts.com they are inspired with the twitter list created by Matt McGee’s on The Local Search Industry. It is good they decided to make their very own “Twitterati” (the word originally came because they thought of who is who on twitter) on the B2B Marketing and Lead Generation.

We all know that twitter is popular nowadays. There are many people who continue to join because it provides benefits. It is really a good way to communicate with other people. Aside from that it is also a source of networking and can help you to receive latest updates on the things that happening in the circle of B2B Marketing. From the list generated by blog.readycontacts.com, the CEO/President of SEOChampion.com Michael Rotkin is included. It shows like this:

• Michael Rotkin – Owner/Seo Expert Internet Marketing Firm

You can follow him on http://twitter.com/SEOChampion.

If you want your website to be on the top search engines especially on Google, it is really important to think about SEO. If you type SEO on Google, the meaning of it is search engine optimization.

There many businesses today that is also thinking about the possibility of earning online. Actually, other businesses already proved the effectiveness on selling services or products online. There is really a big potential to earn online. Making your website to visible to search engine and online visitors is not easy. You should think on how visitors can see your website. Looking for SEO Firm is really needed. It is not just picking SEO Firms, it is important to be wise in choosing.

On the video below, SEOChampion Michael Rotkin will give information on how to choose the correct seo firm:

The CEO/President of Seochampion, Michael Rotkin provides Webdesign Tips For SEO. Aside from that, his blog website seochampion.com/seoblog offers a lot of information about SEO, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, Podcasting, Viral Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Program, Article Marketing, Backlinks, Bing, Blog Marketing, Facebook, Google Adwords, Google Chrome and lot more.

You will also have the chance to watch different videos that will really attract your attention. Matt Cutts and Webpronews Videos are posted in his website. He is making sure to provide updates to increase the knowledge of his readers.

Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather than the multi-site WordPress MU. To those people, good news! A little over a week ago Andy Peatling, founder and lead developer of BuddyPress, announced the release of BuddyPress 1.2, which can be used on single installations of WordPress. Congratulations, BuddyPress! And congratulations to all the people who’ve been waiting with bated breath for this to happen.

The first thing I thought when I heard the news was, “Awesome! Now everyone can put BuddyPress on their site if they want it.” The second thought I had was, “Shoot! Average WordPress users won’t want to try BuddyPress if they have to switch their site themes over to the BuddyPress default theme just to try it out.” The third thought I had was, “That can’t be right. I’ll ask Andy.”

As it turned out, you could keep your current theme with BuddyPress if you added a couple of files and made a few file edits. There was even a link on the BuddyPress site to download the necessary files. That still seemed a little clunky, though, so Andy, super awesome guy that he is, went ahead and made a plugin to get you started. The BuddyPress Template Pack can be installed directly from your WordPress admin (Plugins > Add New), and will walk you through the theme additions step by step.*

Now you can use BuddyPress with your single site installation of WordPress, and you can keep your existing theme. Seriously, could BuddyPress have made it any easier for you to add social networking to your site? I know I can’t wait to try it out this weekend, how about you?

* Don’t forget to install BuddyPress itself, or the template pack plugin won’t do anything!

A great application for your Apple iPhone, it is called the Tipme. This application enable it users to calculate the tip you should give. It also enable its user to calculate and split the bill.