WordPress is my favorite blogging platform and has been for a long time. It gets the basics right and never overwhelmed me as I grew up in my blogging experience. However, like Firefox, WordPress is also eminently extensible and makes it easy to both get more out of the platform the longer you’re on it [...]
Alex King has released a WordPress plugin that links your WordPress blog to your Twitter account, allowing you to pull your “tweets” into your blog or post directly to Twitter from WordPress. Among other features is a sidebar widget for latest tweets and a forthcoming digest mode. read more | digg story
Two more announcements for OpenID adoption — but this time on the consuming side (as opposed to my originally incorrect report about WordPress.com — for now, they’re only serving as an identity provider). The first is Shopify, a great Rails-based custom store application. As Alex points out, these guys really get it right — and [...]