Bing, Live.com and Hotmail blocked in China
Microsoft has confirmed that several of their web properties are currently blocked in China.
Microsoft’s just launched Bing search engine along with Hotmail webmail service and Live.com are all blocked.
Microsoft said: “Microsoft’s Bing.com, Live.com and Hotmail.com are among several Internet services that have been blocked for customers in China. [...]
WP.com now owned by Automattic
Automattic continues to make small new acquisitions to further boost their offerings.
They have now acquired the domain name WP.com from Yahoo.
They are currently redirecting WP.com to WordPress.com.
The developers behind the popular blogging platform are now looking for suggestions from their users for what to do with this brand new [...]
TechCrunch: 20 bidders including Flickr and Smugmug for JPG Magazine
The people behind the popular JPG Magazine web service recently announced that they no longer could continue running the service.
TechCrunch is now reporting that as many as 20 players are trying to bid for the company.
The bidders as per the report includes some high [...]
The Pirate Bay launches Baywords blogging service
Famous torrent search service The Pirate Bay has announced the launch of their latest service aimed to provide freedom to web users to post anything they want to.
The service said that Baywords would enable bloggers around the world to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut [...]
Six Apart launches Blog It application on Facebook
Six Apart is the company behind the popular blogging tools Movable Type and TypePad.
The company has now introduced their blogging tool named Blog IT on the Facebook social network.
This tool enables the users to post blog posts from within Facebook.
The tool supports various blogging applications including Blogger, TypePad, [...]
WordPress.com being targeted with a denial-of-service attack
Automattic has confirmed that their blogging service WordPress.com has been facing a DOS attack since the last couple of days.
Due to this, access to the service is affected and some bloggers are unable to check out their accounts and blogs hosted on the servers of the company.
WordPress.com [...]
WordPress.com to offer 3GB of storage space
Automattic Inc. has announced their plans to boost the storage space made available to the bloggers on their WordPress blog-hosting site.
The service currently provides 50MB of storage space. This has now been increased to 3GB.
The company said that this enhanced storage space would enable the bloggers to incorporate more [...]
