One of the features in this blog is “Find me now”, a WordPress plug-in developed by Heiko Henning, and offered to the .tel community back in May. Another .tel friend, BommTel, picked this up and offered more detailed instructions on his own blog. Both posts are in German.
We have decided to try the contact manager out and share our impressions. Perhaps, with feedback from new users, Heiko will improve the plug-in and move it from a Beta to a full release.
Basically, the .tel contact manager installs as a plug-in to your blog and gets contact information from a domain or sub-domain that you provide. We used contact.telnic.tel. You can pick and choose which contact items you’d like to display, and the icons you’ll be using (double-click the icon in the plug-in edit dialogue to change it). Once that’s setup and the plug-in PHP file points to the correct locations, you should see the new contact details display on your blog.
I think the integration of .tel into web csm open source is the logical progression for seeing lots of adoption.
joomla and wordpress, possibly drupal, plug ins that were more integrated with the telhosting platform (downloads directly from .tel)
I’ve dabbled with the wp plugin but haven’t found it intuitive to use.
For people to really make maximum use of their .tel, including the linking to and fro blog is essential.