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Firefox Next Release to Fix Flash Crashes
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 10 2010 at 7:57 am | No Comments »
The ongoing issues with Firefox crashing due to confllicts and bugs in the Flash Plugin are about to be history as Mozilla introduces new improvements. Bloggers can rejoice as the power browser is making a comeback.
Future of Google Wave in New API Competition?
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 9 2010 at 2:03 pm | No Comments »
A new Google Wave API competition might heat up interest again in the collaborative documentation program. What would you like to see Google Wave do beyond it’s current functionality?
WordPress Hack Cloakes Itself to All But Search Engines
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 5 2010 at 1:36 pm | 1 Comment »
A new WordPress hack is making its way around the net, and it has some new tricks up its sleeve. Read our coverage to learn what’s going on, whether or not your WordPress blog could be affected, and what’s being done to solve the problem.
Automattic Hires Theme Developer Ian Stewart, Forms “Theme Team”
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 5 2010 at 9:44 am | No Comments »
Yesterday, highly respected WordPress theme developer Ian Stewart announced on his personal blog that he has been hired by Automattic as a Theme Wrangler. What is interesting is the fact that his blog, ThemeShaper, is also joining the company, as a front-end to what he calls a “theme team” being formed there.
WordPress.com Pushes PuSH PubSubHubbub
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 3 2010 at 11:42 am | No Comments »
WordPress and WordPress.com announced PubSubHubbub, a Plugin and new feature for WordPress.com blogs which improves the speed and performance of feed subscription services through a decentralized “hub.”
Donate to Your Favorite WordPress Project: Support a WordPress Developer Day
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 1 2010 at 8:44 am | 1 Comment »
One of the primary reasons the open source WordPress content management system is so powerful is its’ extensibility. If you’ve been thinking about donating to a WordPress development project like a plugin or a theme, or even if you haven’t, today is definitely a great time to do so. Scott Ellis has designated March 1st as “Support a WordPress Developer Day!”
U.K. Politician’s Twitter Hijacked by Porn Bots
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 26 2010 at 12:06 pm | No Comments »
The Twitter API makes it incredibly easy for web applications to take all sorts of actions on your account. Following users, unfollowing others, posting tweets and sending direct messages, these apps can be quite useful and innovative, but also quite malicious. Just ask Ed Miliband, the U.K. secretary of state for energy.
SXSW Interactive Denies Major New Media Outlets Press Credentials
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 26 2010 at 11:32 am | 5 Comments »
The South By Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin, Texas has been known for years as a central destination for cutting edge music and film entertainment, but the newest in technology, the internet, and social media as well. This year, however, new media professionals everywhere are being denied press credentials.
WordPress Wrangles
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Feb 22 2010 at 4:22 am | 3 Comments »
We all have our pains and suffering with our WordPress blogs, but Dave Thackeray came up with a novel way to tell the story of his WordPress woes. We’re looking for your innovative “WordPress Wrangles” to share in an upcoming article. Come join the fun and help us showcase your WordPress story.
Blogger Rolling Out Automatic Pagination
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 19 2010 at 7:00 am | No Comments »
Google’s Blogger service announced yesterday that it is beginning a gradual roll-out of automatic pagination on their users’ sites. The old method of simply pulling a static number of posts is being replaced with a method to dynamically calculate an appropriate number of posts based on the file sizes of code and images.