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Paid upgrades now available at Wordpress.com
WordPress.com users finally got their wish, as long as they're willing to pay for it. Like Typepad, Wordpress.com does not allow users full access to modify their CSS (and therefore themes) manually, instead forcing them to choose one of a number of ...
Wordpress.com gets influx of VC money, launches video publishing tool
The company behind the popular WordPress blogging platform and WordPress.com, Automattic, has received a large influx of cash from investors. The company has drawn $29.5 million in financing from four companies, including the New York Times Company. ...
WordPress.com does domains
WordPress.com has finally unveiled a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for for a long time: domain registration and mapping. Until now, your WordPress.com blog could only have an address like example.wordpress.com, but today you can set ...
WordPress.com announces VIP Hosting
WordPress.com, the free blog hosting service from the creators of open source blogging software WordPress, has announced a new hosting package for high-profile, high-traffic bloggers. WordPress.com VIP Hosting "allows these folks to piggyback on our ...
Wordpress under attack, upgrade your blog now
Several sites are reporting that a major attack on Wordpress blogs started yesterday. The latest version of Wordpress, 2.8.4, is not vulnerable to this particular worm, so upgrading now could save you a lot of headaches. The worm creates a new, ...
WordPress gets a better spellchecker, After the Deadline
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has acquired a spiffy spellchecker called After The Deadline. It's now available on Wordpress blogs, and you can enable it in the Wordpress visual editor by clicking the ABC button with the green checkmark ...
Two thumbs up for Wordpress 2.0 beta
Wordpress.com has certainly stirred some buzz, but I'm still a fan of running my favorite blogging software on my own domains. Fortunately, it looks like the version of Wordpress driving Wordpress.com has made it into a public 2.0 beta. Before I say ...
From FOWA : Scaling Web Applications
Couldn't make it to Future of Web Apps in Miami? No problem, we've got you covered. Wordpress.com's Matt Mullenweg just left the stage after dropping mad science on what it takes to scale a major league web application. There's no way we could ...
Wordpress to launch hosted service
Wordpress developer Matt Mullenweg has announced plans to start a hosted Wordpress service via Wordpress.com. This will effectively position them against Typepad, although Brad Hill notes they'll also need to distinguish themselves from the growing ...
Official Wordpress Facebook application released
Got a Wordpress blog and a Facebook page? Why not hook the two up for some ultimate Facebook blogging bliss? The official WordPress Facebook plugin has recently been released. Currently it appears to only work with Wordpress blogs hosted at ...
phpMyID: roll your own OpenID provider
With more and more web sites and services offering OpenID for authentication, you may want to use your own domain name as an OpenID provider instead of selecting from the wide array of other providers (like Blogger, AOL, Wordpress.com). phpMyID is a ...
Wordpress 2.8 released
As expected, the folks at Automattic unleashed Wordpress 2.8 on the public this week. If your blog his hosted on Wordpress.com, it should automatically be upgraded. If you have a self-hosted blog running Wordpress 2.7 or a more recent build, you ...
WordPress.com users now get 3GB of online storage
digg_url = "http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/21/wordpress-com-users-now-get-3gb-of-online-storage/";Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform have dramatically increased the online file storage capacity for free WordPress.com ...
Flock 0.9 takes off tomorrow
Flock, the Mozilla based web browser still under development in private beta, is getting a nice overhaul with its 0.9 release tomorrow. If you're not familiar with Flock, it was released in 2005 with much anticipation and hype as the social network ...
Business blogging bungles
So you want to start a business blog? Congratulations! Let's start out by avoiding some of the "great blog mistakes" that too many potential bloggers make.
Who are you? If you're going to blog for business, make sure the readers know who you are ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
