Webware is hosting their annual Webware 100 awards and WordPress managed to find their way into the finalist spot again. This time, WordPress is represented within the Photography & Publishing category. Last year, WordPress came home with a victory. Let’s see if we can’t make it so that WordPress goes two for two!
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Xconomy has written an excellent four page article that goes into detail on how Matt Mullenweg and company went from point A to point B in regards to management and financing. Some interesting things that I picked up from the article include:

The company who made an acquisition offer to Automattic is still nameless.
There is an [...]

It was confirmed today that WordPress 2.5 has been feature froze. This occurs 1 month prior to any WordPress release so as to hammer out bugs, tidy things up and overall, just have 1 month to clean everything prior to release. According to Ryan Boren, there will be an official bug hunt on Wednesday, [...]

The WordPress.org team has released an official update to WordPress dubbed 2.3.3. This update fixes a serious security flaw that was discovered within the XML-RPC implementation. By using this flaw, a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog.
The team also managed to place three [...]

Wordpress 2.3.1 has been released for download. The latest version contains bug and security fixes. According to WordPress.org, 2.3.1 contains over twenty bug fixes. Some of the fixes that are highlighted in this release are as follows: Tagging support for Windows Live Writer , Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog [...]

I’m writing this post within the new fancy WYSIWYG editor which is nothing more than the same editor with the exception of a new button. The new button shows me quite a few new formatting features but my favorite one is the UNDO button.
So far, my WordPress upgrade experience has been pretty good. I [...]