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7 Awesome WordPress Plugins

One of the great things about WordPress is that it can basically do anything you want.

Widgets are About Competitive Position

If you have a TypePad blog, ease of use just got easier with TypePad Widgets.

How to Revamp Yahoo! Groups?

I’ve been thinking a lot about Yahoo! Groups recently. This is partly because I’m a member of more than 30 mailing lists hosted there.

New ecto for Windows looks good
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The first post with the second beta of the forthcoming ecto for Windows version 2 offline blog editor.

More choice with WordPress widgets

Some interesting moves going on with the free WordPress.com hosted blog service in the area of ease of use in design and layout that adds to its attraction as an alternative to TypePad, the hosted service you pay for.

WordPress Upgraded

I’ve just upgraded WordPress on this blog to version 2.0.2 which was released last week.

Excellent hack for K2 WordPress theme

One of the things I continue to find a bit tricky with WordPress and the customized K2 theme I have on this blog is tweaking the sidebar to include or exclude elements on certain pages.

Lyceum Multi-User Blog Tool Released

A stand-alone implementation of Wordpress for the enterprise added several features while licensing the actively developed project under GPL terms.

Kim Turns Microsoft Toward Open Source?

Kim Cameron, what are you doing (he just announced that he got Microsoft’s InfoCards working on WordPress and PHP and is having a conversation with lots of people in the community)?

QumanaXP Public Beta Launched

For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying out the closed beta versions of QumanaXP, an offline blog editing tool that is available in versions for Windows and Mac platforms.

More Choices With Offline Blog Editors

I use an offline editor to write nearly all my blog posts. This means I’m not dependent on a network connection nor the vagaries of the internet between my PC and the hosting service (TypePad for this blog), or even my own server where I have my WordPress blog.

Yahoo Exec Puts Career On Automattic

Toni Schneider, lately the man behind Yahoo’s Developer Network, will leave the cozy confines of Sunnyvale for the dual joys of heading a startup and partnering in a venture capital firm.

WordPress – Heading Into 2006 at High Speed.

Wordpress is arguably one of the best blogging packages out there. From it’s full list of features to its many themes and plugins, it seems to have it all.

Getting Back up to Speed with TypePad

A welcome sight for every TypePad customer – you can access the TypePad service again and you can update your blog to reflect accurate content.

Moderated Blogs Are BS

I had a conversation today with a reporter, and was commenting to him about the few comments I had received on my blog post on Dennis Hastert and his blog.

WordPress Leaves Beta

Aspiring bloggers can join the same blog service that hosts the legendary Scobleizer and sign up for a Wordpress blog without needing an invitation.

Flock Not Ready for Primetime

Last night I tried out Flock, a new Mozilla-based browser that’s getting a ton of buzz.

Blogs: Do This Many People Really Have Something To Say?
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Technorati just released a report detailing the growth of the blogosphere. They found that a new web log was created every second, totaling 80,000 new blogs every day. Even more interesting was the rise of moblogging (blogging from your phone). Let’s just hope a moblogger isn’t behind you when you’re sitting at a red light.

AdSense Plugin for WordPress Blogs

Digital Point’s forums has an interesting post announcing an Adsense plugin for WordPress with the following features.

WordPress vs Movable Type

Its a matter of history that I was a member of the Movable Type diaspora when the house that Mena built decided for better or worse to alienate a large number of their loyal user base with MT 3.

WordPress Search, Powered by Yahoo!
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Last week Matt Mullenweg asked me a few questions about the Yahoo! Web Search API and Yahoo! Site Search. It turned out that he was looking for a better way to provide search for WordPress.org and thought we had just what he needed.