Wordpress 2.9 CARMEN version released

February 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Auro News, General News, Open Source, Social Networking, Web 2.0

Wordpress announced the release of version 2.9 which is code named CARMEN after the jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.
Besides the hundreds of code improvements they have made (a full list is available on the Wordpress website, the following are some of the key enhancements handled in Wordpress 2.9 Carmen release:
- Upgrade all plugins at once using [...]

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OpenX Ad Solutions – Limitations and Workarounds

July 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, Open Source, Social Networking, eCommerce

OpenX is an open source advertising solution that has been widely recognized as the best open source tool for developing ad networks. They also have a hosted solution which handles a large volume of advertisers and publishers. They are now heavily funded by venture capitalists and have elaborate road maps for handling many of the [...]

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Youtube videos in Music Plugin

April 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, Social Networking, Web 2.0

Earlier last week, we managed to deliver a good enhancement on Music Plugin.
We successfully used the Youtube API to generate the latest videos for albums and artists from Youtube within Music Plugin.
If you visit the site and go to any artist or album page, you can see this in the site as a AJAX [...]

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Music Plugin as Orkut application

April 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, Auro Technology Research Program, Social Networking, Web 2.0

Purushothaman, from the AI Development team, came up with an idea to try out bringing a Music Plugin player as an application in Orkut. He chose this as his project for the month of March 2009, as a part of our Auro Technology Research Program and in fact won the first prize for this month.
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ATRP – Social Networking – Elgg Integration

March 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Auro News, Auro Technology Research Program, Social Networking

As a part of the Auro Technology Research Program, Mugunthan won the ATRP award for February 2009 for his impressive presentation on integrating an existing administrative functionality of an existing website into the admin tool available already for Elgg.
Elgg is a social networking website tool that allows developers to customize it and integrate it into [...]

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