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Sony has released two WordPress plugins. They are based on some of the customizations they’ve done for their Playstation blog. A good example of a corporation adopting WordPress and giving back to the open source community.

A detailed and excellent post by Scot Hacker about moving the China Digital Times site from Movable Type to WordPress. Some choice quotes: we’ve reduced the time it takes to publish a new article from almost 15 minutes to a…

BabyCenter has recently deployed new community features on their site including the integration of blogs — powered by WordPress MU. For moms, there is Momformation: A blog covering everything you need to know about moms, motherhood, and the state of…

Here in the US we have a big primary election today. Results are starting to come in and you can see the latest reaction from bloggers on the “Politics” tag page on WordPress.com. In addition, several large publishers are covering…

Many publishers are embedding videos on their blogs from various sources, including YouTube, Brightcove, DailyMotion, Blip.TV, and others. One consistent piece of feedback we’ve received from publishers, is that it can be difficult and time consuming to remember the exact…

Big news in the tech world today with Microsoft formally entering a bid to buy Yahoo. Scanning through the various coverage, it was obvious that many large publishers were using their blogs to quickly cover this fast-moving story. A great…

A great way to learn more about WordPress and meet people from the WordPress community is to attend WordCamp. What is WordCamp ? It’s an “informal gathering of WordPress users where we teach, learn, eat, drink and generally have fun…

Anderson Cooper of CNN relaunched his 360Blog the other day and is now hosted at WordPress.com in our VIP program. The previous version of the 360Blog was powered by Google Blogger. David Reisner, 360° Digital Producer, posted a note with…

I’ve received a few emails asking if we could showcase a magazine publisher using WordPress in an innovative way. Arena Magazine, published by Emap,  is one such publisher.  Promoted as “Britain’s original style magazine – for men”  (content is PG-13),…

We launched a new theme today for WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress called Prologue. Prologue is a way for “each of us to share short messages about what we’re doing or working on internally, or private messages between groups of folks.”…