Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a press conference at Facebook’s headquarters announced that facebook is releasing new Group Chat feature and it will be rolled out to users beginning Wednesday. Now Facebook has officially hit 750 million users.
Free Download Manager (FDM) 3.8 beta 2 build 1051 is now available for download and testing. Free Download Manager is a free download accelerator and manager and it is is 100% open-source software distributed under GPL license. What’s new in this version?
A few bugs when creating a new torrent.
Possible crash when adding a new download.
UI bug in download’s details window.
General bug fixes.
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Twitter has acquired the social analytics company backtype.From backtype blog “Joining Twitter gives us the opportunity to bring insight to tens of millions of publishers around the world that are using Twitter to communicate and connect with their audience. We’re also excited to bring our technology (especially Storm) to Twitter where it can have a big impact across the company.”
The company also says that BackTweets will now be offered for free, but we will not be accepting new signups. The API will be discontinued.
Wordpress 3.2 is now available for download.Wordpress 3.2 is 15th major release of WordPress. The main focus for wordpress 3.2 was making WordPress faster and lighter. What’s new in wordpress 3.2?
New dashboard design
New Twenty Eleven theme
redesigned post editor
more shortcuts in admin bar
new approve & reply feature in comment section
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“WordPress 3.2 is going to be released very soon”according to wordpress.org (maybe today). And wordpress also released the minimum requirements of wordpress 3.2 and some tips.
WordPress 3.2 minimum requirements
PHP 5.2.4
MySQL 5.0.
dropping support for Internet Explorer 6
make sure you’re running compatible versions of PHP and MySQL before you update wordpress 3.2.And also use this plugin to check the health of your wordpress install.
Godaddy has been sold to private equity firms KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures for a (companies declined to provide a purchase price) $2.25 billion(Sources). From 2009 to 2010 GoDaddy’s sales grew by 25% to $947 million, and the company projects its figure for 2011 to be $1.1 billion.
Ultimate Coming Soon Page wordpress plugin allows you set up a coming soon page and it collects Emails from your Visitors.
Some features
customizable Background Color and Image, Logo, Fonts
Custom CSS and HTML
Works with several mailing list providers: FeedBurner
Integrated with Google Fonts
Digital and analog clock widget is a wordpress plugin and it allows you to add a clock to your wordpress site.
Features
Any clock title
Any clock size
Two clock types (analog or digital)
Two clock face styles (12 or 24 hours)
local computer time or your timezone
Change colors of clock body, clock face, second hand and face background
add YOUR COUNTRY FLAG as background to your clock face
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Wordpress 3.1.4 is now available for download. wordpress 3.1.4 is a security and maintenance update. This release(wordpress 3.1.4) covers some security fixes and hardening measures. It also fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the wordpress website.
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MySpace has been sold to Specific Media for a $35 million.Specific Media is a digital media company driving viewership for content owners, engagement for brands and relevance for consumers and founded in 1999 by brothers Tim, Chris and Russell Vanderhook .In 2005, News Corporation bought MySpace for $580 million from its original owner.
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