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As you all know, SXSW is one of the pinnacle conferences of our industry. Hopefully we’ll get to meet some of you there. Drop us a note if you are going!

SXSW session picker voting has begun. Peter & I have two talks we are pitching, one on the business of technology and one of the business of people. We would really love your help in promoting them. Go sign up and vote. Leave excited comments. Ask questions. Send this to your friends. Tweet it. Facebook it….

Making Money with Wordpress (Without Working at Automattic)

Freelancers Are Slutty, But So Are You

Easily create vanity URLs on your WordPress site to redirect to any other url. For example, you can use this plugin to have http://www.myblog.com/iphone point to a link on the itunes store. Obviously you can also use this to point many urls on your site to the same post.

* Redirect from simple local urls to any url of your choosing
* Safely coded to prevent conflicts of url slugs
* Extremely clean premium quality code
* Install and use it in under 60 seconds!
* Perfect for all of your WordPress redirection needs

Download The Redirector Pro

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Twitter Widget Pro for WordPress

Events Calendar Pro for WordPress

We’ve officially launched our first handful of Premium WordPress Plugins in partnership with Brandon Jones (EpicEra).

Check out the “Events Calendar Pro” plugin for all of your event management needs – a robust calendar system built specifically for WordPress 3.0. Also be sure to find the first premium “Twitter Widget Pro” for multi-user twitter feed management. Yep, that’s right, you can manage multiple twitter users from the same widget – sweet!

We have just released a significant update to our companion Wordpress plugin Eventbrite for the Events Calendar. The plugin allows you to:

* Sell tickets directly from your post
* Extensive template tags for customization
* MU Compatible
* Many of the amazing features of Eventbrite – directly from Wordpress
* Use shortcode to place any event ticketing on any post

New features for Release 1.6:

* Import event info from Eventbrite by event id number.
* Payment options now specified from post edit
* Improved error handling and reporting
* Updated to new Eventbrite logo

Over the next weeks, we will watch the forums and do a few small dot releases to fix bugs. Please don’t post requests for help here (I’ll ignore them), use the Wordpress Forum.

This release was quite the adventure and a major work for all the contributors. Huge thanks go out to Justin Endler and Kelsey Damas took the role of batman so that I could play Robin. The community was super active and we thank you for all your support, bug reports and more. For all you who predominant speak other languages, we got quite a few new translations submitted. Over the next weeks, we will watch the forums and do a few small dot releases to fix bugs. Please don’t post requests for help here (I’ll ignore them), use the Wordpress Forum.

This will be the last major open source release on this plugin for a short while. We are exploring the possibility of converting this to a premium plugin and will let you all know quite soon what we decide. Work on 1.7, which will be released as a premium plugin (custom post types and more) is under way.

To Download: The Events Plugin 1.6
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We are super excited to announce that gigaom.com is a finalist in the Business Blog category for the 2010 Webby Awards! Our team has been working tirelessly (ok, fine we did get pretty darn tired at some points) to redesign all the sites in their network, launching GigaOm late last year.

Please lend us your vote so that we can go party in New York at what Reid refers to as the “Oscars for Geeks”.

Vote for GigaOm in the 2010 Webby Awards!

http://webby.aol.com/category_groups/marketplace/categories/blog__business

Looking for news and tips about our open source plugin? Follow Shane on twitter @justlikeair.

Update: Thank you so much for all the nice emails and interest we have received. If you are looking for technical support, please read through the support forum and if you don’t find your answer create a new thread.

We have just open sourced two plugins and would love a review / thoughts for future directions, improvement and any wisdom on promoting an open source wordpress plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/

The Events Calendar plugin enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include optional Eventbrite integration, Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eventbrite-for-the-events-calendar/

Register attendees and gather money for your events. Eventbrite is FREE for no-charge events and takes a small commission for each ticket sold. This is the easiest and best way to manage your events and now it plugs directly into Wordpress!!!

Eventbrite for The Events Calendar adds Eventbrite integration to The Events Calendar. This plugin depends on The Events Calendar and has no standalone functionality. Both plugins need to be activated in order for Eventbrite functionality to work.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a talented Wordpress developer with extensive plugin experience to join our crew on a handful of upcoming projects. This is a freelance position – we’re game for people located anywhere in North America.

Are you clued into the latest wordpress happenings and developments? Have a hankering to extend Wordpress in new directions? We’re currently working on high-profile Wordpress implementations that range between conventional to seriously bleeding edge. We will want to see plugin code examples – public plugins are ideal. We want people that are able to develop code that can withstand high profile sites and intense loads. You should be comfortable working as part of a team – your code will have to integrate into an existing architecture. If the tightly optimized code get’s you excited – you’re probably a good fit.

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Today our good friend Peter Koht, the Santa Cruz City Economic Development Coordinator, presented our work at GOV 2.0 Expo.  We’re proud to announce that we won one of five Showcase awards for the Santa Cruz City Budget Website.

What started as a volunteer weekend Wordpress project to help the City of Santa Cruz address the budget deficit has transformed into an adventure. Partnering with UserVoice and Rob Knight Shane, Peter, and Brandon Jones produced an integrated portal for community participation. Mayor Cynthia Mathews worked with Koht and a number of collaborators to produce content for the site and to articulate the state of the budget.

The resulting site instigated conversation amongst both the online and offline Santa Cruz community setting the tone for collaboration.

Our friend Jonathan Fields was just interviewed on Fox Business regarding his recently published his book, ‘Career Renegade‘. We are super excited to find that in his interview he mentioned our iPhone Surf App (at 5:15).

On a related note, Jonathan also interviewed Shane on his podcast, Career Renegades Profiles.

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