Twingly set to launch Twingly Channels
Blog search engine Twingly has announced that they are soon going to launch Twingly Channels.
The developers spoke about Twingly Channels in a blog post:
A Twingly Channel acts as a social filter on top of feeds and real-time search, allowing you to set up a social memetracker for any topic [...]

Posterous Custom Themes finally here
Posterous has announced the launch of custom themes on their blogging service.
Their users had long been asking for the ability to make their own themes.
The service is now allowing the users to make subtle changes to developing complete themes.
They are also offering five prepared themes for implementation on [...]

Typepad adds support for Pubsubhubbub
Typepad is one of the most popular paid blogging platforms.
The service has now added support for real-time protocol Pubsubhubbub which delivers RSS feeds in almost real-time.
Pubsubhubbub feature is similar to RSSCloud which was added by WordPress.com recently.
These two technologies are aimed to deliver RSS feeds faster to clients [...]

WordPress 2.9 to add basic image editing!
WordPress developers have hinted that the next edition of WordPress would include some basic image editing tools.
Bloggers would be able to edit their uploaded images from the WordPress backend.
Some basic features would be provided like cropping, resizing and rotation of images.
This new feature addition would come handy [...]

Automattic acquires After the Deadline
Matt Mullenweg has announced that Automattic has acquired a new company named After the Deadline.
After the Deadline provides a plug-in that brings MS Word like proof-reading capabilities to web applications.
Automattic has already enabled this functionality on the blogs hosted on WordPress.com.
It is also available for hosting WordPress blogs through [...]

Squarespace provides a new comprehensive blog importer
Squarespace has announced the launch of a new updated blog import tool that would make it easier for anyone to switch their blogging service to their platform.
The company has made sure that the switch is as easy as possible. It handles:
Text content
Images
Tags
Authors
Comments
And even the original URLs!
Squarespace [...]

WordPress.com adds support for RSS Cloud
Matt Mullenweg has announced the addition of RSS Cloud feature on all the blogs hosted on WordPress.com.
RSS Cloud is a technology that makes RSS work like Twitter updates. Updates are delivered instantaneously.
The aim is to push the updates faster to clients which support this technology.
Matt added that [...]

Technorati now wants to become a blog network!
Technorati was perhaps the first usable blog search engine we had on the web.
They arrived on the scene much before Google started indexing blogs at a rapid pace.
They are now struggling to compete against the emerging real-time search services.
Twitter has become the new standard for [...]

Upgrade your WordPress if you want to prevent hack attempts
WordPress is in news for a security problem. Developers of this popular open source blogging platform fixed the issue last month but still a lot of blogs are being targeted with this old hack.
If you are running a blog using an outdated edition, we suggest [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva starts blogging
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the latest high profile name to join the blogging world.
However the launch of his blog turned out to be a disappointing for his fans.
The load on the blog was so much that it became inaccessible just after [...]