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 [...]

Automattic acquires Blo.gs from Yahoo
Yahoo continues to get rid of unwanted services to simply their operations.
They have now sold their Blo.gs pinging and blog trackback technology to Automattic.
Automattic is the company behind the popular blogging service and technology WordPress.
Yahoo had itself acquired this service in 2005.
Incidentally, Automattic already has a similar [...]