The News Review:
- BitNami Releases Virtual Appliances for SugarCRM Wordpress …
- WordPress Gets Wicked Blog from Your BlackBerry
- REVIEW: Posterous makes blogging easier than ever
- Security experts’ sites hacked on eve of Black Hat conference
- Indexing slow? Blame Wordpress 2.8
- Wicked WordPress app launches for BlackBerry
- 100000 users to get Google Wave this fall
BitNami Releases Virtual Appliances for SugarCRM Wordpress …
PR Web (press release)
BitNami users can now download ready-to-run BitNami Appliances for open source applications such as SugarCRM Drupal Wordpress Alfresco and many others. The appliances are available free of charge from the BitNami project website BitNami. Now BitNami users have a choice of downloading an easy-to-use self-contained installer or a virtual appliance for over 30 open source application stacks. Both deployment options make it fast and easy to get up and running with freely available applications for customer relationship management (CRM) enterprise content management (ECM) blogs wikis bug-tracking and more.
WordPress Gets Wicked Blog from Your BlackBerry
CMSWire
Since the announcement of the native application a few similar offerings from competitors have come out of the woodwork. Wicked an application from a company called.
REVIEW: Posterous makes blogging easier than ever
Chicago Sun-Times
It’s not a full-fledged online content management system like Wordpress or Drupal; technically you’d call Posterous a microblogging platform. And if you already know that term your first question is “Why bother with Posterous when we already have a more mature microblogging system in Tumblr. com?”Tumblr has the advantages of years of development a larger community and more features. Posterous’ developers had the advantages of being able to look at Tumblr avoid its mistakes and move beyond it. Tumblr has moved away from its roots as a simple microblogger and become a shadow of its mortal enemy: a full-fledged and slightly complicated blogging platform.
Security experts’ sites hacked on eve of Black Hat conference
CNET News
html” >one of the first hackers to be prosecuted for computer crimes; and the PerlMunks programmer community among others. A long treatise was posted to Kaminsky’s Web site with the data and criticisms accusing the victims of hyping security threats to advance their careers and lacking security expertise. It’s unclear how the sites were breached but several of the blogs attacked were running on WordPress and there were allusions to vulnerabilities in the software. “It’s just drama” Kaminsky said when asked to comment. “If there was anything technically interesting to discuss cool. But I hope that my dating life was interesting” said Kaminsky who was preparing for an afternoon presentation on problems with X. 509 an encryption standard for public key infrastructure.
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Indexing slow? Blame Wordpress 2.8
Blogstorm
8 which rather than sending pings when a post is published sends them once per hour in a batch process!In an attempt to reduce the numbers of outbound pings a new undocumented ?feature? was introduced in Wordpress 2. 8 (this change is not mentioned in the WP 2.
Wicked WordPress app launches for BlackBerry
Boy Genius Report
Well there are a small few but they’re so bad that they’re not even worth mentioning. The first one actually worth a write-up though is ScreamingToaster’s Wicked WordPress application. We’ve been using it on and off for a little over a month and like the way the app functions.
100000 users to get Google Wave this fall
CNET News
To be a part of that first run users will have had to have signed up to use the service on Google’s invite page. Along with a hard date on the semi-public beta test Google also highlighted a few developer creations using Wave’s API. Similar tools that let you do that with other social and blogging can be expected as Wave’s API matures.