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WordPress.com Pushes PuSH PubSubHubbub

WordPress and WordPress.com announced PubSubHubbub, a Plugin and new feature for WordPress.com blogs which improves the speed and performance of feed subscription services through a decentralized “hub.”

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WordCast Recap: 2/15/10

We’re wrapping up the week here at WordCast. This week: WordPress.com’s outage, and also brought you the details about the newest version of the WordPress.org blogging system, a tip on how to use your browser better as a blogger, and more.

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WordPress.com Goes Down, Blogs Experience Outages

An unexpected change with one of WordPress.com’s data centers ended up crashing the service for nearly two hours this afternoon. Over 10 million blogs were effected, including prominent “VIP” sites, and approximately 5.5 million pageviews were reportedly lost.

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Duotone WordPress Theme: Especially for the Photoblogger

Automattic designer Noel Jackson has notched things up with the latest version of the innovative Monotone Theme with Duotone. The Theme analyzes the colors in a photograph and changes the page color design and look accordingly.

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Akismet Spam Protection Pro Blogger API Keys Available on GoDaddy

Because it comes included as a plugin in a standard distribution of WordPress.org, it makes sense that the vast majority of WordPress bloggers (and even bloggers on other platforms) use the extremely powerful Akismet to protect their sites from the constantly growing enemy of comment spam, many purchasing commercial licenses for their larger traffic sites. Today Automattic made it even easier for GoDaddy.com customers to purchase these keys.