Lorelle on content theft

It’s still a slow news day, but that doesn’t lessen the fact that Lorelle’s got a great post up on content theft and WordPress confusion.

WordPress, Twitter style

The folks at Automattic wanted to do WordPress, Twitter style, and came upp with the Prologue theme, available on WordPress.com, and for hosted installations. Cool, will we see WordPress MU powered Twitter wannabees now?

Optimizing WordPress

Want to optimize your WordPress install? Then you really should check out this post (via WordPress Publishing Blog).

WordPress dominates Technorati Top 100, Movable Type second

CMSWire have been looking into what the Technorati Top 100 sites are using to power their words, and WordPress is a whopping victor at 34%. Second is Movable Type with 16%. Check out the full report here, with a hat tip to the WordPress Publishing Blog.

Automattic secures $29.5m in funding, WordPress creator happy

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, founded on the success of blogging platform WordPress (which BloggerTalks incidentally uses) by Matt Mullenweg, have raised another $29.5m in funding, with The New York Times opening its wallet. Matt himself have a post up, calling it Act 2 for Automattic, and takes a look in the rear view mirror [...]