WordPress.com Launches Domain Registration and Mapping
WordPress.com today released Domain Registration and Mapping for your WordPress.com blog.
This is a paid addon. Only mapping with your existing domain is $10/year. If you don’t have a domain name you can register and map it for $15.
There was a time I would have taken this service. However, I no longer maintain and update my WordPress.com Blog as much as I hoped to.
Besides, I prefer having complete control over my blog and have plenty of space to host any future initiatives.
But, it could work out to be a very useful service for those who want the convenience of hosting their own blog, letting someone else do all the maintenance and having your own domain as well!
Look at it as a blog hosting service at $15/year. You won’t find such a low-priced host anywhere 
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WordPress.com Open
We’ve decided to open up WordPress.com for signups without invites for a bit. The service has been scaling very well since we got the problems from the move worked out. With that done and WordPress 2.0 in its final stages, there is a lot more time to focus on some cool features and common requests for WP.com now. (The design there has been updated, but is still just a placeholder.)
With that you no longer need to have Flock to get a WordPress.com blog nor do you need an invite.
Well, that does mean my one invite shall go in waste… 
Also, those interested in using Akismet have easy access to getting their WP.com API key.
However, the problem I raised about having dead signups at WP.com just to get the API key will just elevate.
Until Akismet is made API free or until some kind of generator is used to generate the keys freely (or maybe by having registrations on Akismet.com) this problem will remain.
Unless ofcourse this is a planned method of increasing the number of blogs being used out here on WordPress.com
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Please give me some Valid Themes WordPress.com!!
Well, I’m frustrated!
And you can’t blame me. While WordPress.com has declared that I can’t edit my template, they have done little to add themes to the existing miniscule list of six (eight if you count Classic and Default)!
And worse still, of these only four validate as valid XHTML. Even the default WordPress theme does not which really irritating. It can be fixed if they change the & to & in the header portion.
The others are missing the type attribute for the script tag.
Well, I’ve sent feedback to them. Hopefully, something gets this fixed.
After choosing and rechoosing I finally settled with Pool (Blix doesn’t display images in Links), inspite of it being not valid.
Well I’m not happy. The reason is because I have had to edit my links and remove the Description as it was also displayed in addition to the link. Additionally it displays all the links together and not in categories.
Same problem with Connections!
To the team: Please do consider this post and give us some good XHTML valid themes. Thanks!
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A Flickr of WordPress.com
Well, I don’t use this but I am sure many would welcome an integration of Flickr with WordPress.
This is already functional at WordPress.com. Owen has a short tutorial on how to go about using it.
You need to update your profile to add the Flickr id and then clicking on Browser Flickr in the image upload area of Write Post screen lets you browse the images.
Just one doubt, fear or whatever. What if I use someone else’s Flickr ID. Won’t I have access to their images directly??
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WordPress.com Please give me <!–more–>
Update I missed this, but Donncha has already taken care of this request 
For those new to WordPress, in versions 1.5.x and below a nice feature for creating teasers was available while posting.
It was called the <!--more--> tag.
I haven’t tried 1.6 but here at WordPress.com this doesn’t work. As a result I have long long posts on my index page when I could just have a small starter with the rest of the post on its seperate page.
When I don’t run the WYSIWYG editor (which I don’t like) I can enter <!--more--> using the quick tags, but unfortunately when I save the page, it is removed
This is a request to the folks at WordPress.com to add the functionality back again.
I hope other users who miss this will also join me in asking them for it
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