Today Yahoo! announced they have purchased Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Of course, Yahoo’s track record for buying companies seems to be that of a kid with ADHD at Christmas time – by February they want new toys. Will this be… Read More
Category: blogging
WordPress Runs Almost Half of the Web’s Top Blogs
Recently a study was released by Pingdom regarding the content management systems (CMS) used by the web’s top blogs and, perhaps not surprisingly, almost half of those sites were powered by WordPress. 48 of the top 100 are using WordPress… Read More
Sony Connects Up At CES
Sony‘s CES focus this year is on electronics, content and network services combining to deliver high quality entertainment anytime and anywhere. Supported by a slew of product announcements, new connected devices range from TVs, Blu-ray players and A/V receivers through… Read More
WordPress In Your Pocket
WordPress has been around a long time and is quite a powerful web publishing platform available to virtually everyone at no cost. I finally got around to installing the official WordPress app onto my iPod Touch and I have to… Read More
Poster for WebOS and the HP Palm Pre
As regular listeners to the podcast will know, the Geek News Central website is powered by WordPress. Until now, I’ve always used the web interface to write posts. “It works” is about the kindest thing you can say about it…. Read More
PowerPress Podcasting Plugin Updated
My team at RawVoice this morning released version 2.0 of the PowerPress Podcast plugin for WordPress. The work committed to this update was well over 1 month of coding. I have been running the beta here at Geek News Central… Read More
Wylio Searches For Free Pictures For Bloggers
If you have a blog and are always looking for photos to spice up your posts then there’s anew site that you will want to check out. It’s called Wylio. It searches millions of creative commons photos to find what… Read More