In an announcement on their blog, Intense Debate stated that they have been acquired by Automattic.
IntenseDebate is a comment system that enhances and encourages discussion on your blog or website. This is done via comment threading, replying via email and an ability to import and export comments.
What’s in store for us users?
Automattic plans on keeping [...]
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Two weeks back, Matt announced that Automattic is testing WordPress.com ads on post and tag pages. I don’t spend much time on any WordPress.com sites, so I can’t say I have seen any ads.
Today, they have added a new premium option. Now, for 30 credits a year, i.e. $0.08/day you can go completely ad-free.
This upgrade [...]
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Daniel asked the question What is a Blog? This is my answer.
In late 2003, I decided to try my hand at writing what was known as a blog. As I hesitantly installed WordPress on my first paid hosting account.
I remember telling people excitedly that I have started blogging only to be stared at as if [...]
WordPress.com has now announced that they have added support for Digg.
Their FAQ neatly explains the process with pictures on how to go about getting this done.
You currently need to have your post submitted to Digg and then return and edit your post and add [digg=http://digg.com/url_to/story_on_digg] to the post.
This will then add the button which your [...]
Blogger has always supported publishing to your own webspace via FTP. What it lacked was the ability to point your own domain to your blogspot account.
WordPress.com got that one up on Blogger when they launched this feature that allowed you to map your domain to your WordPress.com blog. This service is charged at $10 for [...]
Today a post on BloggingPro brings to focus an extremely interesting point in WordPress.com’s TOS.
the Content is not spam, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or [...]
