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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 a great deal for Yahoo! or will we they just push aside for another acquisition down the road. Yahoo! Acquires
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 as their backend system, while Movable Type, the second most used CMS, powers only 7 of the top 100 blogs.
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 to tablets, smartphones and PCs and on to camcorders and mobile music players. Sony is combining these with online services
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 say I’m impressed with the app. It quickly accepted the credentials to my own WordPress blog, and I found I
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. Browsing the Palm App Catalog, I came across Poster for Wordpress, an app that allows blogging from the Palm Pre
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 for several weeks, and many of you have already commented on the new video player experience as being superior to
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 you are looking for. Just use common sense about what you find, as their website states: "be pragmatic when you