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Since TwitPic’s recent controversy over its terms of service, which saw the company backtrack from an aggressive TOS that prevented its users from reselling photos they had uploaded to the service, a great deal of new attention has been focused on the contracts and agreements we sign every time we register with a new service. [...]

When it comes to third-party site statistics, Google Analytics (GA) is pretty much the gold standard. It provides a tremendous amount of practical information, integration with other Google products, including Adsense and Adwords, and clear charts all for free. However, Google recently announced that it was taking things one step further and adding something almost [...]

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is one of the technologies that helped blogging grow hugely. By offering a simple method for others to subscribe to or otherwise access the content of a dynamic site, it made blogs, with their rapid pace of updates, more accessible and approachable. For a time, an RSS feed literally determined, [...]

Dotster recently announced a new feature called “Instant Website”. This creates a simple, attractive, one-page site for its customers that is then hosted for a mere $2.99 per month. To be clear, this isn’t an “Under construction” page, a placeholder or some temporary site. Dotster’s Instant Website is mean to be a full and complete [...]

Around the time that Amazon’s Cloud services began to have its lengthy downtime, another popular service went down as well – the PlayStation Network (PSN). Used by millions of PS3 owners to play games online, download digital content and connect with friends, the PSN has been, for many, a core part of the PS3 experience. [...]

Sometime around 1:41 AM PDT Amazon began to notice high error rates in its Elastic Block Storage and connectivity issues with reaching Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances at its Virginia datacenter. Unfortunately for Amazon and the companies that rely upon it, the problem was not quickly resolved and many woke up the next morning to [...]

The Westboro Baptist Church is best known for its controversial picketing of military funerals with anti-gay slogans and its recent contentious victory at the Supreme Court. The church has made a lot of enemies online. One of those is a “hacktivist” called “The Jester” or “th3j35t3r”. The hacker took it upon himself to silence the [...]

Last week, Automattic, announced a new plugin for WordPress called Jetpack. The plugin is designed to bring many of the features offered by their WordPress.com hosted solution to those who wish to host their own installation of WordPress, including updated states, grammar checking and more. But Jetpack more than just a great plugin, it actually [...]

On Wednesday, WordPress 3.1 was pushed out to the masses, the first major release in 8 months, and it sparked an intense flurry of activity as bloggers, hosts and other site administrators rushed to bring their versions up to date. However, unlike the previous security updates, this release makes significant changes to the way that [...]

Byrne Reese, the former project manager of the content management system Movable Type and current chairman of the project’s open source spinoff, Melody, posted to his personal blog a controversial article entitled “How did WordPress Win?” The article serves as an inside look at the famous battle between Movable Type and WordPress and how the [...]