Stephen Fry Talks about WPtouch and WordPress
StephenFry.com currently runs the latest beta of BraveNewCode’s free WPtouch plugin, and is probably one of the largest sites using it. A few weeks ago, I contacted Andrew Sampson (who runs most of Stephen Fry’s web empire), and asked if perhaps either Andrew or Stephen would be able to submit a quick quotation, audio clip, or video clip for my presentation for WordCamp Portland — Andrew and Stephen gladly accommodated.
I just finished presenting it all here in Portland, and thought I would share it for all the people who asked to see it again. So, here it is (if you’re on the iPhone, hopefully this video should now work as well).
Once again, a very big thanks to Andrew Sampson and Stephen Fry for being a part of the conference here in Portland, and for talking about WPtouch and WordPress.
I’ll post my slides over the course of the weekend, along with a few links to other resources. Until then, I’ll probably be enjoying a few beers down here in Portland.
23 Comments
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Duane,
I missed your mobile session at WordCamp Portland, but saw the Stephen Fry reference on the screen at the conclusion. THE Stephen Fry? Yes, one of my fave actor/writer/comic talents.
Congrats on the testimonial.
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Do you need any further testimonials, after Stephen Fry has given his? Probably not, no. :D
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Love it! ( the video, the plugin and … well you guys )
Rock on dudes
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Firstly I love your plugin and have implimented it on every of my sites.
Ironic though that this is a post about WPtouch and the video you’ve provided isn’t iPod friendly :P
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BNC Development Guru
5 months, 3 weeks
That’s a good observation. Unfortunately, none of the good video sites do iPhone videos properly. It’s something we’ll try and add to WPtouch soon.
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Great that your site is iPhone friendly. Too bad that the video interview with Stephen Fry is not viewable with the iPhone. #fail
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Video does not work on the iPhone :(
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FTW… lol! do more video blogs Stephen!.. please.
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BNC Development Guru
5 months, 3 weeks
I converted the video to an iPhone format, so hopefully that works for some people. The wireless here in Portland is terrible.
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I tuned in to the feed just in time to catch that video. Very cool!
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BNC Development Guru
5 months, 3 weeks
Yah I saw your tweet about it. Glad you got to see the rest here.
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Video is very good on iPhone. Nice and slick interface looks like some hard work has been put into setting it all up. Keep up the good work. Am currently looking to transfer my blog. Is there somewhere I can get info on how to download and set up WPtouch and relevant software. ???
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BNC Development Guru
5 months, 3 weeks
Basically you just need a self-hosted WordPress site to run WPtouch. Once you have that, you can simply go “Plugins”, “Add-New”, “WPtouch” in the administration panel for WordPress, and it’ll basically be up and running.
Glad the video worked on the iPhone, and thanks for dropping a comment.
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Omg SFry you look so sexy here!! Like Wow! A little like Derren Brown too … Mmm :-)
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Couldn’t agree more. WP touch is an essential plug in with so much of our web viewing being through iPhone. Only wish the option to switch to regular view was located at the top somewhere in case the user isn’t tech-savvy enough to realise that the site can also be seen in it’s original format, without having to scroll through a bunch of posts to see the button. Small gripe I know. Still love the plugin! Great work.
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Could not find the plugin for Firefox?
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i have no idea what WPtouch is, but does it photoshop webcam entries on the fly? (or as in this case, on the fry.)
stephen is looking very fine indeed.
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BNC Development Guru
5 months, 3 weeks
It’s a plugin for WordPress that allows your WordPress website to look different (arguably ‘cooler’) when viewed for the iPhone.
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Video doesn’t work in Firefox, Chrome or Explorer.
Just use Youtube or Vimeo.
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BNC Design Guru
1 month, 1 week
Do you have Quicktime installed? If not then it wouldn’t work in any browser.
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