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WordPress 3.4 is very close to release now, but its makers deemed it necessary to roll out another beta. So the fourth beta is here, ready for your testing pleasure. It's all bug fixing and polishing at this stage and WordPress didn't even see it fit to say anything about it, other than the fact that it... |
3 May 2012
04:51 GMT |
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If you were wondering whether you could photograph or video record keynotes or sessions at WWDC 2012, Apple has a two letter answer for you. Since “yes” is made up of three letters, you can guess which one that is. Indeed, Apple will not allow any type of live blogging or recording during WWDC sessions. ... |
26 April 2012
09:18 GMT |
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The second beta release of the upcoming WordPress 3.4 has landed. As you'd expect at this stage, there are new features, but WordPress boasts that there are over 60 bug fixes and changes since the first beta last week.
"If you’ve been testing Beta 1, please update to Beta 2 to make sure things are still w... |
12 April 2012
04:33 GMT |
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Tumblr, the incredibly popular blogging platform, has just updated its Android app and, for once, you'll actually want to use it. It's not just better than the mobile website, perhaps even the main site, it's one of the best looking and sharpest mobile apps around. The app is available in Google Play ... |
11 April 2012
06:21 GMT |
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WordPress has released the first beta of the upcoming WordPress 3.4. This first beta is aimed at getting the latest version in front of as many people as possible to iron out the kinks and squash bugs. As such, it's not intended for production use and it's probably not a good idea to use it for your blog, ... |
5 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Twitter has rolled out a new version of its dedicated iOS client fixing a bunch of issues reported by owners of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices that like to blog on the go. The Twitter iOS app is a full-fledged tool to browse your interests, find & follow friends, tweet, retweet, favorite, follow, exchange di... |
4 April 2012
09:31 GMT |
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If you've been a productive blogger and you've gotten more and more people to follow you WordPress.com will reward you, with badges. For each milestone you hit, you get a new badge which doesn't do anything besides make you feel better and perhaps a bit more important."Today, we’re rolling out a ... |
22 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Blogger is getting some power user features that a lot of people are going to appreciate. Users can now create meta tags for their blogs, add redirections and even custom 404 pages.
Serious bloggers, those that haven't switched to WordPress yet, are going to enjoy the flexibility the new features provide as it ... |
22 March 2012
10:46 GMT |
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WordPress.com is doubling down on stats, the new My Stats tab being the prime example of that. The site is working on making the homepage the only place you need to visit, a hub for publishing, reading and keeping up with readers.The latest addition to the My Stats tab is the "View by Country" section, hardly an orig... |
10 March 2012
14:11 GMT |
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WordPress.com is making it easier than ever to create a new post no matter where you are on the site. When inspiration strikes, all you have to do is hit the New Post button in the top toolbar and you're on your way.
The feature is actually pretty impressive, it's certainly eye catching. Hit the new post b... |
2 March 2012
09:40 GMT |
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WordPress.com is working on making it easier to interact and maintain your blog. It's improving the notifications area that it introduced a few months ago adding comment notifications but also ways of moderating comments right from the notifications box."Today we’re adding comment notifications, complete w... |
10 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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WordPress.com has introduced an interesting new feature, a blog reader, a cross between Google Reader and reader apps like Flipboard. Through it, you can keep track of blogs from WordPress.com but also other places.They don't even have to be WordPress blogs, Blogger ones work as well. In fact, any site with a RS... |
20 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Blogger has finally gotten some love in 2011 and the venerable blogging service has gotten a well-deserved update. There are new dynamic themes, a completely new dashboard and plenty of new features. But Google is not done, there's still plenty to do to bring Blogger up to spec.
One new feature just introduced ... |
12 January 2012
13:21 GMT |
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WordPress.com seems to be doing good business gobbling up bloggers from places that don't want them anymore, like Microsoft's Live Spaces. Every time a major blogging or web publishing service shuts down, WordPress.com is there to welcome all the refugees.
It's doing it again for the Italian blogging ... |
10 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Remember when having snow on your desktop was cool? Pixelated snowflakes falling from the top of the screen, settling on the My Computer shortcut or way below on the taskbar. Windows 98SE wasn't really that bad, now was it?
Well, WordPress.com is bringing back the nostalgia, of either your childhood Christmas o... |
2 December 2011
07:02 GMT |
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One of the disadvantages of using a blogging platform, like WordPress.com, is that you're more limited in your customization options than you'd be if you used your own WordPress install.
But WordPress.com is working on enabling bloggers to make their blog exactly how they want to.
There are now over 150 t... |
22 November 2011
05:18 GMT |
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Tumblr has announced a massive new funding round, raising $85 million, 63 million Euro, at an estimated valuation of at least $800 million, 590 million Euro. It's the biggest sum the site has ever raised and it says the money will help it fuel the growth it's been seeing in recent years, in the past year in... |
27 September 2011
04:40 GMT |
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WordPress.com is making some improvements to the ubiquitous admin bar that adorns every WordPress.com blog. It's cleaning it up a bit and it's also making it more intuitive to use.The goal is to focus on the activities that users will want the most and to make it easier and clearer for users how to Follow o... |
23 September 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Google has made it official and announced the Lightbox view for Blogger. The feature had been live, at least for some users, but possibly for all, for several days now.The official announcement doesn't really add anything we didn't know, except perhaps for the fact that, while enabled by default for all blo... |
19 September 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Social networking is a major part of online life. That much is obvious, but now we have some more data to back this up. According to the latest report from Nielsen, about online audiences, four in five internet users, in the US, visit a social network or a blog at least once a month.Facebook is the top dog, of course... |
13 September 2011
07:44 GMT |
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Posterous, the simplified blogging tool that you may have heard of but never used, has gone and revamped itself. While traditional and more modern blogging platforms, i.e. WordPress versus Tumblr, are battling over user numbers and views, Posterous has revamped the concept of blogging with a focus around sharing, spe... |
13 September 2011
07:21 GMT |
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WordPress 3.2 has only been out a week. Already, the team has pushed an update, WordPress 3.2.1, a minor one that fixes several pressing issues which made it into the final release, through the testing phase.But this doesn't mean that it's too early to talk about WordPress 3.3, in fact, the team is now acti... |
13 July 2011
12:01 GMT |
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WordPress seems to have had a lot of reasons to celebrate these last few days. Just before it released WordPress 3.2, the previous version, WordPress 3.1, reached 15 million downloads. Now it reached another milestone, WordPress software powers 50 million blogs on WordPress.com and on independent hosts.
Automattic... |
11 July 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Tumblr is the hottest thing in blogging for years. Granted, it's not a traditional, full-blown blogging platform, but its simplicity and focus on social interactivity have paid off, Tumblr's latest stats are truly impressive.About a month ago, Tumblr reported that it was seeing about 250 million daily page ... |
28 June 2011
10:51 GMT |
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YouTube is experimenting with a very interesting feature, a page aggregating all of the YouTube videos posted or embedded by a blog along with short snippets of the posts. This creates a de facto channel for any blog on the web, but one that lists content it posted but not necessarily uploaded itself.Google hasn'... |
6 June 2011
04:38 GMT |
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WordPress is now eight years old. Way back in 2003, WordPress 0.7 was released, the first version of the very popular blogging software. What started out as an open-source web publishing platform became one of the biggest things on the web, powering tens of millions of sites. While WordPress definitely didn't in... |
28 May 2011
06:40 GMT |
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Google is launching a new blog. It already has dozens, covering products and topics big and small. But this latest blog is not about some brand-new service, it's about the one that started it all, search. While Google has a blog for anything from YouTube to Translate, there was no dedicated search blog.Most anno... |
19 May 2011
04:00 GMT |
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The first beta release of the upcoming WordPress 3.2 is now available for testing. The big focus with this release has been on performance and it should be visible already, WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 should feel faster than the the current release in many areas.There are also new features to play around with, the full-scre... |
12 May 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Blogger is working on a massive overhaul, but, in the meantime, has introduced a couple of new features and tweaks ahead of the big launches coming. All users are now able to add location data to their posts, if they so desire. There is also an updated media content upload interface, similar to the generic one Google... |
6 May 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has condemned the recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against blog publishing platform LiveJournal, calling them outrageous and illegal.President Medvedev maintains a personal blog on LiveJournal since April 2009, a few months after the entire site's develo... |
8 April 2011
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It's been a month since WordPress 3.1 landed and work on the next major release, WordPress 3.2 has already started. It's still in the early stages though and WordPress developer Mark Jaquith has laid down the main guidelines for the upcoming release highlighting what developers should be focusing on.Speed t... |
22 March 2011
14:10 GMT |
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A couple of months after the first release candidate came out, WordPress 3.1 is now finally available. The first stable release in a quite a few months, WordPress 3.1 comes with several enhancements for bloggers and developers alike. There's a new system for linking to your own posts, an admin bar similar to the... |
23 February 2011
11:17 GMT |
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WordPress 3.1 RC4 has been made available. The fourth release candidate includes several security patches along with plenty of other bug fixes from the previous build. This latest release should be the final step before the stable version comes out. WordPress 3.1 has been in release candidate phase for about a month ... |
8 February 2011
11:31 GMT |
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In a move largely praised even by AOL critics, the internet giant has acquired the Huffington Post for $315 million. The deal is straight up AOL's alley, the company has been expanding aggressively into content and has a clear strategy in this area. While it hasn't managed to pull it off to its full potenti... |
7 February 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Techmeme, a popular aggregator and discovery tool for technology news, has made a big change and will now be including tweets as main headlines or as part of the discussion. Techmeme is a great way of getting an overview of the hottest stories of the moment, but the focus has been on blog posts, news articles or slig... |
20 January 2011
15:08 GMT |
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WordPress is on a roll lately. It is adding new users like never before, four million blogs were created on WordPress.com in the last three months alone. The self-hosted version isn't doing that bad either, WordPress 3.0 has now been downloaded over 30 million times. The current stable release of the very popula... |
17 January 2011
06:00 GMT |
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WordPress has recently updated its stats page and they show a very interesting trend, WordPress.com has been growing like never before. There are now 16 million blogs hosted by the service, up from only 10 million at the start of last year. What's even more surprising is that the growth mostly happened in the la... |
7 January 2011
13:49 GMT |
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iOS developer Automattic is proud to introduce version 2.6.3 of WordPress for iOS, an update to the blogging app, now available in the App Store. According to the people at WordPress.org, the new version of WordPress for iOS includes tons of bug and crash fixes, as well as some performance improvements.
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21 December 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Tumblr has been getting plenty of attention lately, though not necessarily for the best of reasons. A 24 hour outage left quite a few people without their daily taste of their favorite blogs and raised questions about the company's ability to scale. But there is good news as well, Tumblr just closed a hefty fund... |
18 December 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Blogger is still the largest blogging platform out there and, though it's lost some of its luster, it still provides a solid experience. The Blogger team is now introducing a new option for those relying on RSS/Atom feeds to keep their readers up to date. Until now, you could either distribute a snippet of your ... |
11 December 2010
05:19 GMT |
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Blogs are a particularly Web 2.0 product, losing some of their appeal recently to things like Twitter and Facebook, yet they continue to be incredibly popular. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the open source blogging software, has revealed that the hosting service gets about 300 million unique visito... |
10 December 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Tumblr, the popular blogging platform, is finally up and running again after more than 24 hours of downtime. Technical issues took down the entire infrastructure and engineers scrambled to fix the problems and get the site back up. Unfortunately, the recovery process was a long one as the engineers had to manually re... |
7 December 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Tumblr, the popular blogging platform, has been down for close to 16 hours now, leaving users to scramble to Twitter and Facebook to air their frustrations. The site greets visitors with an error message and a promise to return "shortly." Of course, 16 hours later, "shortly" is starting to get a whole new meaning."We... |
6 December 2010
11:52 GMT |
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Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has released new updates to its open source blogging tool which allows users to manage their blogs right from the mobile phone. The BlackBerry variant includes some major improvements for devices running at least version 5.0 of RIM's operating system, while the Symbian b... |
9 September 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Associated Press, known for its strong stance against competitors, especially online, has revised its policy on crediting other organizations and even bloggers when due.The news association has been wary of crediting sources that are not part of AP not to mention pure online sources like blogs. This has now changed a... |
7 September 2010
08:21 GMT |
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The popular open source WordPress blogging tool for mobile phones has recently been updated. BlackBerry, Android and Symbian platforms received new versions with mainly bug fixes, in the case of the first two, and a major user interface redesign for Nokia's operating system.The latest 1.4.1 release for BlackBerr... |
26 August 2010
09:44 GMT |
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The “like” button has taken the web by storm. Whether you like it or not, Facebook’s latest move has been hugely successful. So successful, in fact, that others have started copying it, for better or for worse. WordPress has announced that it has now introduced a ‘like’ button so you can... |
4 August 2010
12:38 GMT |
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The first bug-fixing update to the latest version of the popular open-source blogging platform WordPress has been released. WordPress 3.0.1 is a minor release fixing several bugs still left in WordPress 3.0. In total, 55 issues have been resolved for this release. Note that if you updated your install as soon as... |
30 July 2010
05:04 GMT |
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WordPress is one of the most popular blog hosting platforms in the world, but it’s also one of the most popular pieces of open-source software. From small-times bloggers to some of the biggest sites out there, WordPress is a widely used choice. So any changes are bound to affect a lot of people. WordPress is no... |
26 July 2010
09:47 GMT |
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The world of blogging has been going through some changes in recent years. While blogging has become prevalent on the web, the hottest ways of getting stuff out there are Twitter or Facebook. With that threat, a new wave of blogging platforms has risen to offer an alternative to sites like Blogger or WordPress.com wh... |
13 July 2010
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