WordPress continues to go from strength to strength as both a blogging platform and a CMS. The latest version – 2.9 “Carmen” – includes some useful enhancements that content creators will appreciate. For those that don’t like to go with a .0 release, WordPress 2.9.1 is now out. It fixes a few small niggles with [...]

One of the great things about social media and web 2.0 tools is just how easy it is to take content from one place and put it in to another – it is also why it so terrifies many it traditionalists. This screencast shows how to take a image gallery from photo sharing site Flickr and [...]

Automattic, the team behind blogging platform WordPress have announced the release of version 2.8 of the platform. Code named “Baker”, in the tradition of the platform’s jazz inspired naming, the release focusses on making the blogging experience even simpler than before, whilst adding over 180 new features. 2.8 builds on the developments that lead to the plugin browser, [...]

This Tuesday’s TechCrunch Geek n Rolla event included a presentation by Joe Drumgoole, “get of of my cloud.” It probably steered between too technical for non-tech folks and not technical enough for the techies. Launching a start up on a cloud infrastructure makes good economic sense – it’s a success-based cost model. The same holds true for start up [...]

Today was CloudForce in London – SalesForce.com’s big event, which is touring the world, and touted as “your chance to get the insight you need to take advantage of cloud computing and salesforce.com applications in 2009.” And that’s probably where the problem starts. There wasn’t much cloud on show, at least not cloud computing as I [...]