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 [...]

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If you are running a blog using an outdated edition, we suggest [...]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 [...]

Automattic launches WP.me link shortening service for WordPress.com blogs
Automattic has announced the launch of their own link shortening service at WP.ME.
There is one major difference in this service.
This service is designed for their blog hosting service WordPress.com.
Each and every blog and blog post now has a short URL hosted on WP.me.
Matt Mullenweg [...]

Twitter Tools: Archive your Twitter posts on a WordPress Blog!
Twitter Tools is a very useful plug-in that you can use to archive your Twitter posts on a WordPress powered blog.
This tool replicates the entire Twitter streams on a blog powered by WordPress engine.
This can come handy for users who would like to maintain [...]

WordPress 2.8.4 released with major security fix
WordPress developers have released another update in their WordPress 2.8.x series.
The latest version at the moment is WordPress 2.8.4.
It comes with a security fix that could enable an attacker to reset the password of an admin account.
The problem does not open access to the blog to the [...]

WordPress 2.8.3 released
The developers behind the open source blogging platform WordPress have released a new update.
This is a security fix release and the developers suggest everyone should upgrade their installations as soon as possible.
Ryan Boren said in a blog post:
Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. [...]