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 [...]

Canonical URL Plugin for WordPress
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have just announced support for Canonical URL on their search engines.
This would enable the search engines to avoid indexing multiple links for the same webpage.
WordPress users have it easy as Joost de Valk has released a plugin that does it automatically on WordPress powered blogs. [...]

WordPress 2.7.1 is out
The developers behind the popular open source blogging software WordPress have released a new update.
WordPress 2.7.1 is now available for downloading.
It is essentially a maintenance release and comes with mostly bug fixes.
Users on WordPress 2.7 can use the new built-in update feature to upgrade their installations.
Users can also download [...]

Google Gears support in WordPress is pretty basic right now
I am amazed at how Gmail uses Gears for offline email capabilities.
We have been using Gears on WordPress since a long time. I dug into the WordPress documentation to find out how much functionality is provided by Gears if you are using it.
Right now, [...]

WordPress.com gets WordPress 2.7 features
Automattic has now implemented the WP 2.7 edition on their WordPress.com blogging portal.
The final version of WP 2.7 is not yet released though users can get their hands on a near release RC edition.
This hints at the possibility of near future release of version 2.7 for the self hosted [...]