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• Wordpress
  WordPress Version 2.8, named for noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, has been available since June 10th, 2009. WordPress 2.8.1 was released on July 9th.
  
  

  WordPress 3.0.1 After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one Bug fixes to make you smile Update your WordPress This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make [...] PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the [...] 100 Million Plugin Downloads and Counting WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads. The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major [...] Summer of WordCamp It’s been summer for about a week now. Whether you’re on vacation or burning the midnight oil, attending a local/nearby WordCamp is a great way to spend a weekend. Meet other WordPress users, developers, designers & consultants, learn a little something, maybe share a little of your own experience and knowledge, and break bread (or [...] WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious" Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow [...]

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• Joomla
  J is for Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system.
  
  Dynamic? That means content is stored in a MySQL database and the pages are generated on the fly as needed. 
  
  Brande Roderick's website is powered by Joomla!
  
  So is Sherri Shepherd's! They didn't even bother replacing the favicon...
  
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• Twitter
  This is from an RSS feed of my status updates that are labeled Twitter.
  
  

  twitter is over capacity. the api is a little bit better. or is everything recovering now. #deleteyourtwitterif you're a big celebrity and can't exercise self-control over the tweets you yourself send out ;) twitter's api has been slow these past 24 hrs what else is new so you think you're dorkier than i am, hu? http://howlonghaveyoubeentweeting.com/ http://hunch.com/games/twitter-predictor/play/ have i ever been in love? i answered no. it said yes. maybe r... not the one who drew me but the one who went after jasmine's sister Twitter is down! 8 pm on St. Patrick's Day Oh, Twitter is merely over capacity. Not!!! http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com HTTP Server Error 503 Golly, my client's going to kill me! http://whentwitterisdown.com/ TWITTER WHORE videos on YouTube from two years ago!! still waiting on twitter's api golly... i need to go to bed what is wrong with twitter's api tonight? at this rate, i'm going to be up till wednesday i frickin' need sleep!!! If your browser is Firefox 3.6 and your Tweetdeck download cannot proceed because Adobe AIR installation hangs, open your Safari browser and do it there! twitter newsletter... Conan O'Brien has joined Twitter http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien LOL. Intimacy problem? Good comparison of Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz Take note: Twitter is supposed to be public. My two cents is that if Google Buzz catches on, Twitter will become ideal only for businesses, personal brands and the like. Am glad though I had a front seat to witnessing Twitter evolve from what it was in the beginning to what it's becoming. twitter's api server is down can't handle #sb44 - recovering now Twitter hacked by Iranian Cyber Army December 1, World AIDS Day. Twitter's turned their homepage red. Hah! Google took the simple route with a red ribbon. Use hashtag #red in your Twitter updates for the effect... twitter has disabled all lists temporarily update: back up as of 3:48 pm Twitter will have a maintenance window on November 17th at 11 pm Pacific. Following in my footsteps and those of Trent Reznor, Miley Cyrus has quit Twitter. Like me, probably got tired of the platform that allows strangers to directly call her an e-whore. (Actually, her boyfriend asked her to stop twittering her life away.) Not a good idea to personally invest yourself too much in these social-media sites, where the community manager can arbitrarily suspend your account if she doesn't like your politics. The Flickr case was ghastly, but gosh there are other stories not as publicized. Still, companies and individuals whose personal brands are a business do have to take part and stay on as part of marketing strategy. I understand that. Keenly. does the news about rsscloud, wordpress, river2 and lazyfeed mean i no longer need to buy twittelator from the app store? lol... good times ~ WTF. Paulo Coelho is on Twitter. August 6 (Thursday): DDoS attack on Twitter Told 'ya. Sponsored Definition? LMAO another idiot thought that because my avatar was smiling when i reported that twitpic was down, that i was happy that it was down that's twitter for you am i supposed to upload a new avatar for each tweet i do? default to an avatar with a neutral expression? screw you why do i even bother dropping in there Twitpic now back up.... in most places. Twitpic down in certain parts of the world...

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• GoDaddy
  
  
  The thing about GoDaddy is that its customer reps are well trained to be very polite and nice over the phone when you call in to complain about some aspect of their service. But the undeniable fact is that their servers are just way too overloaded.
  
  As for their alleged 99.99% uptime, I'm surprised GoDaddy hasn't yet been hit with a class-action lawsuit over it. Their sites are always down and inaccessible, making their claim a case of false advertising.
  
  My advice is to try out another hosting company just to feel the difference. That's what I did with Hostgator, with which I've placed all my small sites, and the difference is noticeable. They've got cPanel and allow unlimited add-on domains (the catch being that you can't go over a set number of "inodes" but if your websites get only moderate traffic it won't matter).
  
  Hostgator's customer service is spotty -- they seem to assign inexperienced people to handle chat, and the slightly more knowledgeable reps to answer the phones. I understand it's not economically feasible to have experts fielding inquiries from shared hosting customers, which is why my most important site is not cheaply hosted.
  
  But that's another story. To summarize what I've learned, if you want cheap shared hosting for your websites that don't get that much traffic, it is without a doubt better to go with Hostgator than GoDaddy.
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