Google Living Stories Come To WordPress
Last Thursday Google team has announced release of the “Living Stories” to WordPress community as open source code. It contains several WordPress plugins and a custom theme required to run properly. Good news is that code is portable to other themes and if you are willing to dig into code – instructions provided.
I think concept is extremely intriguing as it opens possibilities for bloggers to become the NICHE leader by providing most current updates on topic. Obviously I haven’t used this one yet and from everything I have read on it so far – you might be limited to stories within the Living Stories project, I would appreciate correction if I’m wrong here.
If you are thinking “automated content” and such – you better forget that idea! Living stories integration and maintenance will be a fairly manual process unless someone takes it one step farther.
I do think that in its present state it still has an ability to give you an edge over your competitors by allowing you to become a center for relevant information. Living Stories uses code to create an extremely functional pages that provide latest information on topic. Instead of talking – here is the video where you can see it in action:
If you have already implemented this one – let me know! I would be interested to see results.
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Man, you nailed this one, I have been playing with living stories but this is great news. Way easier to implement.
Yeah, I think for the right niche it could be a gold mine
I have been so involved in recent projects that I hadn’t even taken the time to notice Google Live Stories…It seems I have even used it and not realized it, and never occurred to empower my blogs with integration…Thanks for the insight on this, definitely something else that I have to look into and get all the details about the possibilities it offers….being a trend setter is something I definitely like the sound of…just haven’t found that trend that I have been able to set yet
Interesting, thanks for the info. Will give it a try.
I have seen a lot of people talking about Google living stories and WordPress all over, but I can’t seem to find anyone that is using it. Also with Google living stories no longer being updated as of Feb 2010, I am not to sure what to make of this.
Mike,
I think it is one of the main reasons not many using it
It has a great promise but… unless Google will allow additional source of the news feed, it might be too much to deal with. At least as I understand it.