YouAre Wordpress Theme is a free, complete and elegant Wordpress 2.8+ solution released under GPL License to promote your real-life identity and professional profile.

YouAre Theme is recommended for people who have an estrategical online presence. Our motivation to release YouAre Theme? It fits clearly in our strategy to create aplications and addons to promote your true self. Your true self is the what you build through everything you do throughout the day.

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The YouAre Options panel is the most valuable and remarkable issue. We have seen a lot of themes and none of them satisfied us. We have based this free theme in some themes as Titan and Checkmate, but we had to add a lot of coding to release what we have now.

Features

Theme Options:

1. Colour Schemes
2. Exclude Pages from header
3. Author Summary
4. Your Photo in About Page (Page ID: 2)
5. Online Identity (YouAre, Twitter)
6. Real-Time Services. ‘Latest YouAre Updates’ and ‘Latest Twitter Updates’ plugins are interconnected with theme options. Your latest updates from YouAre or Twitter appears in frontpage and permalinks (Sidebar).
7. Footer Promo Section (Your company services or featured work)
8. Total Feedburner Management (Username, Feed Counter, Email Subscription)
9. 125×125 Banners (2)
10. Flickr Badge
11. Footer Credits
12. Stats Code. Google Analytics (or other) tracking code

Templates:

1. Grid-based layout. 960.gs for CSS Framework (24 columns)
2. Custom Templates: archives, tags, contact, 404 and search results pages
3. SEO Optimized Code
4. Multi-language support with automatic user language detection (wp-config.php): English, Spanish and Catalan.
5. Gravatar ready. Header auto recognition gravatar
6. Sidebar Widgets
7. Child Pages/Categories Ready
8. Threaded-replies
9. Highlight author comments (Different font-family)
10. Microformats
11. Accessibility Features (access keys, pdf and zip icons…)
12. Pagination (WP Page Numbers plugin required)…

YouAre Theme FAQ

• CMS: Make sure that you are running WordPress 2.8+ (learn how to upgrade)
• How to install YouAre Theme (Plugins required and recommended)
• Features List (Theme Options & Templates)
• How to Customize Footer
• How to Customize ‘About Page’
• CSS Framework: 960.gs (24 columns)

Download YouAre Theme 0.1.

We love feedback. We greatly appreciate your help improving YouAre Theme.

To enable it, click on “Settings” in Google Reader and then click on the “Send To” tab to choose which services to add (make sure you disable pop-up).

Settings for Send to YouAre

Name: YouAre
URL: http://youare.com/?text=${url}&t=${title}
Icon URL: http://www.youare.com/i/favicon.png

Click Save and voilà.

Now at the bottom of each reader entry, you’ll see:

If you have problems please email us to use {at } youare {dot} com

To that end, the content that you publish on other sites and on your blog is very important. A few hours ago we activated the feature which allows you to insert the URL for your blog or website to grab the RSS. As with YouTube, Flickr and Delicious, content is imported every 6 hours. We’d love to be able to do it in real time, but for the moment it’s not possible.

We will periodically be adding more services.

The Statusphere is beginning to become more popular, but we can’t sacrifice blog content in this day and age, among other reasons because blogs are key to promoting yourself and managing your reputation and identity online.

Content imported from your blog will be cataloged as with other content on Web Life and YouAre Search.

If you were thinking of migrating from Twitter to YouAre or if you would like to have your Twitter archives in YouAre, we just activated in your settings menu the option to import the tweets that you’ve published to date. Twitter allows importing of 6.400 tweets and as with each YouAre update, they will be saved via a URL like this:

http://youare.com/username/year/month/day/idnum

When we built this feature, we had 2 options: allow you to import tweet without having to enter your password or with your password. What you publish on Twitter, as with what you publish on YouAre, is very personal content. To ensure we aren’t allowing others to take your identity, we decided to password protect this feature.

Your Twitter account will not be infringed upon.

When Twitter allows general authentification without having to enter a password, we will implement this.

Settings: Import your tweets into YouAre.

Update March 26, 2009: We can’t activate OAuth just because Twitter only let us acccess Twitter API URLs. Twitter API has 100 requests/hour, not enough to import the contents of a unique user (6400 updates maximum). 1 request = 20 updates maximum.

YouAre Search lets you search:

• Published updates
• Content published in Web Life (YouTube, Flickr and Delicious)
• Professional profiles (Resumés: bio, work experience and education info)
• People (by name and cities)

Features

Your search results will show 7 main filters in the header:

1. All results
2. Links

   Content containing a text, video or image link or a reply

3. Questions

   Content containing a question mark

4. Resumés

   Content entered in the bio, work experience or education info fields. With this feature you can search job candidates, professions, etc.

5. People (Users)
6. Happy

   Content containing smilies… :) or :-)

7. Sad

   Content containing sad faces :( or :-(

Resumés and People searches, for privacy reasons, will only be activated when you are logged in. The results will be shown in order of the user with the most updates to those with less.

In each of these 7 filters there is also an option in the sidebar which allows you refine the search even further.

• Last Hour
• Last 24 Hours
• Past Week
• Past Month

And if you are logged in, you can also filter by:

• You’re Following
• Your Followers
• Your Favorites

For example the seach URL for “youare” filtered by results wirh links in the last 24 hours would be:
http://youre.com/search/links/youare/24h

If you would like to filter the results for the last 7 hours, you just have to edit the URL:
http://youare.com/search/links/youare/7h

You an do the same with months (numberm) and weeks (numberw), for example:
http://youare.com/search/links/youare/3w

Syntax

#whatever
When you are writing and update and you want to contextualize the content, you can write #whatever (which is almost a standard since the times of IRC). When you write #whatever you will get a link like this URL: http://youare.com/search/whatever, which acts as a fast and effective way to show topical and thematic channels.

@username content
If you want to look for what has been said about the iPhone by only one or several specific people (or yourself) you should insert the username like this: @jlantunez @gabubu iphone.

@username
These are replies from a certain user. Feature inspired by Twitter Search.

The search engine in itself requires a lot of attention and constant dedication by our team. In the future we want to be able to activate search among all users’ favorites, allow “reply chains” (conversations; before this we will implement them in YouAre permalinks) and above all we want to be able to allow users to search by the city where they live, even by neighborhoods. But this is something we want to think out and do really well.

Any and all feedback is welcome!

Update March 16th, 2009: Content imported from your blog will be cataloged as with other content on Web Life and YouAre Search.

What is YouAre? What’s YouAre offering as new? Before reading our About Section it might be better to read what others have said about us, like: Duncan Riley (The Inquisitr) or Genbeta (Spanish blog).

Development

There was a time, back in Spring of 2007, when there were only a handful of applications for microblogging.

In May of 2007, we began development on YouAre. What motivated us?

• Our reluctance to use a dashboard to publish content. We wanted the content editor and the content published on a single page. Microblogging — which was gaining popularity — allowed us to do that.
• The need for combining both professional and online identity in one place. We believe that professional networks (Linkedin, Xing, etc.) don’t really show your true self. 140 characters does.

To achieve these objectives, we wanted a domain name that would reflect our goal. YouAre.com was perfect. The perfect URL for developing a social network and managing your identity.

About 2 weeks into development, Pownce appeared on the scene and since then there have been a ton of YATC (Yet Another Twitter Clone). When they say that YouAre is just another YATC, our response is clear. Twitter was and still is an inspiration for us. But if YouAre is a Twitter clone, then WordPress and Movable Type are clones of Blogger, Pitas and LiveJournal.

In contrast with other services, microblogging is, for us, the vehicle by which we strive to achieve our final goal: building a simple platform for managing your real-life identity and making the small things you do every day easier. Your true self is the what you build through everything you do throughout the day. With the youare.com URL which has obvious potential; for example, you could pay/validate for small items such as a coffee at your local café with a YouAre reply, or login to other web services using your YouAre ID.

Overview

On December 2007, we introduced ourselves to the Spanish community and in January 2008 to the international community. Since then we have been completing the application with passion and tranquility, since we are sure of our product.

In Summer 2008 we opened up a private beta. It was still a rough moment and there wasn’t a week that would go by without a new microblogging app. Some of our features weren’t innovative anymore, but that didn’t matter to us nor does it now. But it did force us to maintain a low profile until the environment was a bit more positive.

It’s time to open the doors. We are still developing features, such as favorites by tags, which have given us pause before activating them. We are still ironing these out.

If this is your first time on YouAre, thanks for giving us your time. You can find more info…

• YouAre and the little details
• Social Networks: The “Dayflow” Era Begins
• YouAre Invitations
• Introducing YouAre

In september, Ping.fm and HelloTXT added YouAre in their list of sites to be updated.

The API has already been developed: as an example, creating desktop clients or for integrating YouAre into existing ones. If you like YouAre and you want to update via Twhirl, Tweetdeck or others, you just have to tell these companies you would like to be able to do so.

Welcome to YouAre :)

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You’re A Wonderful One – Marvin Gaye (1964)

• Search content
• The option of editing the type of relationship you have with another user without having to delete and re-add the contact

We’re working on this right now.

When we started sending out invites in July, there was too much going on in the microblogging scene. It wasn’t the best time to introduce ourselves, but we didn’t care and we still don’t. The positive feedback we’ve received gives us a lot of energy. We are still happily working away, and at a rhythm that may not be as fast as we would have liked, but the fact is that we are also organizing Evento Blog España, the second-largest blogger and web entrepreneur conference in Europe in terms of attendance, and that takes up a lot of our time. This year we’ll welcome 900 attendees.

We now have a date to “open up the doors” on YouAre: the end of this year.

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Thank you very much to Fabrizio and Sean & Adam. The number of users and updates have increased a lot since then.

These two great applications helps you posting to multiple social networking sites at the same time without even considering going one by one to do so. Instead of updating Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr… separately, you can do it all at once.

HelloTXT
HelloTxt was founded in Italy in 2007 with the aim of making life easier for people who belong to multiple social networks and has support for Jabber and gTalk.

Ping.fm
Ping.fm was launched in march 2008 and has an MSN & IM & gTalk bots. Great API, too.

In addition, these other services were developed from an English-centric point of view. Although YouAre is in English, one of our areas of improvement is the optimize usability to provide for the particularities of other languages.

Here are just a few of the small details you might be able to notice on the user side:

• Filtering of updates by type of contact
• When writing or pasting in a URL, characters aren’t subtracted
• Recognition of URLs that have been shortened

  When you publish a URL with more than 50 characters, our system automatically shortens it to a URL like this one: http://micurl.com/0hupfc. If are logged in to YouAre, place the cursor on the link and look towards the lower left of your browser. There you’ll see the source URL.
  This is convenient because it lets you see if you really want to click what’s there, if the content is NSFW, etc.

• Many languages use accent marks. YouAre doesn’t subract characters for those.

  This is a highly requested feature in Twitter that tends to annoy many users.

• Same search results, with or without accents.

  When you look for a person or a place that contains an accent mark in the name and you don’t include the accent, the search engine doesn’t filter the results and will return results for both. For example, if you search “José”, the YouAre search engine will also show you users who spell their name (no accent) and vice versa.

  While it might seem like a minor detail, most social applications only show you results for exactly what you have written, which makes users or places which accent marks “invisible”, since users who aren’t used to writing accent marks are the majority.

• Friendly URLs

  While this might be an widely spread idea and not very innovative, very few networks really pay attention to having friendly URLs. In YouAre, permalinks are similiar to URLs used in blogs:
  http://youare.com/username/yyyy/mm/dd/idnum.

  With this URL format, it’s easier to keep an ordered record of what you did on a certain day or month. The URLs for files are also friendly (http://youare.com/username/videos), as well as location (http://youare.com/country/city) and search results (http://youare.com/search/name).

• Instant erase of content without reloading the page makes things a lot faster.
• Link to print a resumé within the profile. A detail that is quite simple but also very useful if you are the process of recruiting candidates for a certain position.
• If you publish links with .pdf or .zip you will have a small icon reflecting it.
• The email that lets you know you have a new follower includes the 140 character bio of the user. That way, if you don’t know the person, you have more information about them which will help you decide whether you want him or her in your network.
• When you reply you do not have to begin the post with @username.
• Videos on popular sites start automatically. Following the philosophy of “as few clicks as possible”, when you publish a video and you go to the permalink, you won’t have to play, as it will play automatically.
• QR Code for each update

Any and all feedback is welcome!

Facebook has had its “activity stream” — a list of the users actions (logins, recommended links, etc.) — up since 2006 but it hadn’t been afforded the attention on the homepage that it has now.

We aren’t going to analyze why Facebook has become more like FriendFeed, especially since it could be said that FriendFeed was inspired by Facebook’s activity stream, which itself was inspired by LiveJournal.

For now we’ll just focus on the elements that for us have a Dayflow application.

What is Dayflow?

Dayflow is a term coined by myself and Luis Rull which we use to define services with:

• Timeline plays an absolutely essential role on the homepage (Twitter, Friendfeed, YouAre and the new Facebook…). The latest updates are the most relevant and the newest things always are seen first.
• The power of just one click.

  All you need is a click to publish and mash together content. You don’t need to log in like on a blog or visit another URL to see the content you’ve published. Now all of your content and that of your contacts can be seen on one site only. This is the greatest innovation that microblogging and lifestreaming services have offered to date.

• Publishing and archiving of content differentiated by type: video, photos, text (Tumblr, Facebook, YouAre). You don’t always want to only publish messages in text form, sometimes you want to show another user a video and comment on it.

YouAre

If you look at the screenshot of the before and after of Facebook and the YouAre interface you can see how the two services have the timeline in common, with immediate publishing for photos, video and text.

YouAre has been working internally since December. Back then, we put some images of the interface up on Flickr. Lots of people tend to think of YouAre as a Twitter clone, forgetting that the focus is different and the potential of our domain name. In reality we consider YouAre to be:

Twitter + Tumblr + Linkedin + Del.icio.us (coming soon!) + our innovation = YouAre

The redesign of Facebook further cements our vision of what a social network should be like. And we feel quite proud of that.

We believe that Twitter and other services should make a move towards publishing video and photos. CEO Jack Dorsey has commented that they are analyzing the possibility.