Thursday, May 17th, 2007...4:35 am
Truemors - Powered By Wordpress
Probably the most interesting thing I’ve heard about Truemors is that it’s built on Wordpress.
It’s easy to see how the scalability and ease of modification that exists with Wordpress would attract such a high profile startup.
After poking around a bit I’ve noticed they are using some modified plugins as well. Notably WP-PostRatings (for voting) and Share This (for social bookmarking).
One area where they’ve dropped the ball is search engine optimization. Something as simple as permalinks hasn’t been implemented and their post titles aren’t optimal either. Truemors isn’t going to struggle for traffic but I’m rather pedantic when it comes to the small things.
If by some chance you haven’t heard about Truemors it’s a new startup engineered by Guy Kawasaki. It’s an odd mashup of Twitter and Digg, where users send in rumours or popular news, which can then be voted on or discussed.
I’m not sure what to make of it at the moment. Everyone was quick to attack the concept behind Twitter and look how that turned out.
41 Comments
May 17th, 2007 at 5:45 am
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May 17th, 2007 at 7:51 am
I dunno…vicious rumors? Seems like idle talk and a waste of time.
I read the TechCrunch piece and have to side with them.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:40 am
i had a lil hint when i saw the site….. i now know i was true
May 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am
I looked it over, too. Don’t think I will spend any time there. Better things to do.
Not sour grapes, just think we are getting saturated with all these high concept sites that have little value.
I have little time to deal with real issues, let alone searching for rumors.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Yeah, I first noticed it as well after looking at the code and I was like, Wooaahh!!! Web startups are being built on WP now?!
May 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
It explains the fast turnaround on this project.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Yet another Web 2.0 flash in the pan. It’s demise will not be grieved.
And, Dan, in case you haven’t heard, Twitter is *so* last Thursday…
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/17/making-the-switch-from-twitter-to-jaiku/
May 19th, 2007 at 5:44 am
[…] is built in wordpress with their modification but the truemors site never shows it is based on […]
May 19th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Twitter is not very much fun to look at. The type and graphics remind me of a blue version of MBL.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Well, I’m sure they’ll be able to grow away from their short comings in time.
I think Wordpress is pretty good software.
Quite a few larger sites seems to use it these days
- techshoot.net
July 12th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
pepek.g@centrum.cz
nice
July 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
hey, could you put your modified plugins online for download?
Thank You!
I Can’t live without Eucaristia
July 13th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
wow cool, much appreciated
July 16th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Gee, thanks for letting us know that.
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:52 am
I think we’ll see a lot of companies using more out of the box type of solutions, rather than going with all custom built.
I like wordpress, it’s a good solution for many sites.
November 6th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
I’m all for Wordpress, but I think at times you just need to go with a custom solution. Otherwise you will probably end up compromising some part of your site/service.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
i heard somewherethat truemors is going to be for sale … :S
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:44 am
I actually like the look of the site and in my view, using WordPress is the best thing they could have done. Why would you want to use clunky websites that are hard to navigate and difficult to find information.
Using the post teaser plugin and having a number of posts on the front page makes it appealing since people are not greeted with a boring static page all about the site.
Trish Jones
December 5th, 2007 at 11:27 am
BTW, Truemors is a great name.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Truemors is build on wordpress? - I didn’t know that!!!
December 11th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I hate that wordpress makes you pay to customize. LONG LIVE BLOGGER!
December 13th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I don’t think it’s a site I would visit, but there are a lot of people sitting at work that visit joke sites & fake news sites. So maybe they will make money.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I love wordpress. Period.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
That’s neat that it was built by Wordpress, but I just don’t see any value in sites like these. They are such a waste of time and they don’t even have the features of the social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. I can’t see myself ever getting into this type of stuff.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
wordpress¡¡¡¡
February 16th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
can u tell me about it because i am making a project releated to it & needed some experiment
plese help me
February 19th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Thanks for great post! WP rules!
February 20th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Great looking site! i really like the design. and, well, i’m a big fan of WP in general and WPMU in particular.
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I love wordpress!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:38 am
It’s easy to see how the scalability and ease of modification that exists with Wordpress would attract such a high profile startup.
Infact wordpress has made it easy to get the thing from sigle portal.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Wordpress is a fast-rising blogging site, if not, one of the better blogging sites. I can’t believe after years they are able to add many features to their interface.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:41 am
The only reason this might work is Guy Kawasaki’s name being attached to it. The whole idea depends on being able to generate useful and interesting rumors. There are only a handful of people in position to hear things like that and he’d have to have a bunch of them posting to the site. Is there really a large enough supply of true rumors that are interesting to make this feasible?
If there is little control on the site, it’s just going to degenerate into a rumor mill and the signal to noise ratio will plummet.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:12 am
It could work. I am not going to rush to judge just yet. But it sounds like a program I wrote called “rumora” a few years ago and I was in Entrepreneur Magazine for it. I never open sourced it or sold it because it was too unstable.
March 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
word press offers lots of free customizations that you don’t have to pay for.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:14 am
DDLPROV, i’d love wordpress too! thanks for the article!
March 24th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Hey, I just wanted to stop by and say hi, I liked your site and it was my pleasure to check it out. Thanks, Dan
April 5th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I love Wordpress. It’s the easiest blogging software to use. Bar none.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:41 am
I had not heard of truemors, or Guy’s involvement until I read this post, and I see the site in the top 100,000.
Thanks for letting me know!
April 17th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Wordpress is the best blogging software one could use and overall the look and feel of the site is appealing too.
There are fair chances that the site should do well & add up to be another best to the popular social bookmarking sites that one uses today. Let’s wait & watch.
regards
mktgpro
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
Wordpress is indeed a great blogging software. It can be customized in any way. There are plenty of plugins available on the web which make it easy to use and flooded with functionalities.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
It explains the fast turnaround on this project.
I love wordpress too! thanks for the article!
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