A little bit of news for those who have been waiting for it: WordPress 2.7, dubbed “Coltrane”, has been officially released. This is probably the most anticipated version of WordPress yet, and I won’t blame those who are excited for...

I’ve used various plugins and webapps for measuring my site statistics on my WordPress blogs. Each one has its own merits and disadvantages of course, but whether you choose a plugin that will give you stats from an external server or one that...

Microblogging service Pownce, once touted as Twitter’s heir apparent, is closing down on December 15. The Pownce team has joined SixApart, and they will be bringing their technology with them. The team is now working on an export tool that will...

With WordPress 2.7 release date looming as close as ever, the WordPress team has released the 2.7 Release Candidate 1. RC1 ushers in the final leg of development for 2.7. RC1 contains 280 commits since beta 3, includes the new and polished UI...

We all love Akismet, the powerful anti-spam plugin that we all use on our WordPress blogs (even if it fails sometimes). We all know that Akismet has been ported over to over 20 systems and platforms, namely Movable Type, Drupal, phpBB, Blojsom, Bloxsom,...

Those using Chitika to monetie their blogs should be glad to learn that there is a new WordPress plugin that will help you to easily manage your Chitika ads on your WordPress blog. Chitika|Premium is a CPC search-targeted advertising solution...

Those who have switched microblogs from Twitter to Plurk have been disappointed at the lack of Firefox add-ons available. Need proof? Off the top of my head, without googling, I can name a few Twitter add-ons for our favorite browser: Twitterfox,...

WordPress 2.6.5 is now available for download. I know some of you guys aren’t too keen on going through another security upgrade and would want to hold off upgrading until 2.7 gets released. The Automattic team, however, is recommending that...

Six Apart has launched the beta version of TypePad Connect, a Disqus-style commenting service that includes MyBlogLog-like profiles. The new comment service has a sleek new interface and great features like threading, easy pagination, OpenID sign in,...

Lately we’ve seen an increase in people that leave comments that are actually responding or even sharing their thoughts in the blog entry. But sometimes they include an off-topic link at the end of the comment. The said comments aren’t...