8BitKid: Living Bit by Bit

First off, I have two new sites to present:

Awecelot.com
I was in a Rock Band tournament at a party one night, and we entered our band as “The Ocelots”. The person running the show misspelled our moniker, and so we were down as “The Awecelots”. I thought it sounded/looked pretty cool, and so I snagged the domain. I am not exactly sure what I will do with it, but at least I have it.

BigSixSocialClub.com
For those of you who know me well, you know I am in a dominos club bearing the name of the URL mentioned above. The Big Six Social Club convenes every week to throw bones, and we now have chapters in Silver Lake, Washington D.C., and New Haven.

Yahoo! Media Player
Finally, I have launched the new version of my Yahoo! Media Player Wordpress Plugin. This new version allows you to input your Amazon Affiliate ID to monetize referrals from your site.

- click here to get Yahoo! Media Player Wordpress Plugin v1.1

If you haven’t noticed, there is a music player integrated into this site. It creates those small play buttons next to each mp3 links (such as for this incredibly amazing song), and also creates the player in the bottom-left corner of the screen. If you want to see a richer demo, play with my music posts category. This player is a free piece of software available courtesy of Yahoo!. While they have already done an excellent job of making the player easy to integrate into a site, I decided to test my coding chops and make a plugin for the Wordpress blogging platform (the one that this site uses) to make it even easier to install and manage.

I recently had some free time to work on the plugin, and it now is up to version 0.3. I have completely rewritten the plugin, and added some functionality. There is now an “options” pane that will allow you to turn on the “beta” build of the player, so to speak, so you can test the new features coming down the pipe.

Also, I must disclose that while I am a Yahoo! employee, I work on this in my free time since I love the utility, am a big music fan, and needed a cool coding project. Please play around with this latest version and pass along any feedback.

Download: Yahoo! Media Player Wordpress plugin v0.3

This is v0.1 of my Yahoo! Media Player Wordpress plugin. It provides a super-simple way to embed a media player into your site to playback MP3 links. You can find more info about the plugin here: Yahoo! Media Player Wiki.

Please use the comments area to leave any feedback.

Click to download: Yahoo! Media Player WP Plugin v0.1

(DISCLOSURE: I do work for Y!, but have done this in my free time since I dig the product)