Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, today introduced a free web application, Blog It for iPhone Powered by TypePad. Built specifically for iPhone’s Safari browser, Blog It for iPhone is designed to let you post blog entries or status updates, from wherever you are, to more than a dozen different online services. Blog It for […]

The Simple Flash Video plugin builds on other plugins that allow easy posting of .flv or .mp4 files in WordPress. With this plugin you can easily post .flv or .mp4 videos to your blog. Viewers can then instantly watch the video without having to fully download it before watching. You can also use it to […]

Videographer is a free WordPress theme for creating video sites. “It’s a great way to build content-rich niche sites, and use the power of YouTube at the same time,” says creator Shane Navratil. To use it, you’ll need to know WordPress, some HTML and possibly some php. No support is provided for the theme.

Video Elements is a commercial WordPress theme designed for video sites. Video Elements lets you your videos in two different ways, including the “Instant View” which allows users to instantly view any video on your site by selecting the video thumbnail, and within the single post page where the video is featured above your post […]

Magnify has introduced a new service that promises to make it easy for Movable Type and WordPress publishers to incorporate media from a variety of sites. Magnify Publisher is a native blog application that lets you search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and embed the content directly into a post, […]

Online video site Viddler has announced a new plugin for WordPress 2.5 (currently in beta testing) that lets you browse for and embed videos directly from WordPress. Here’s what’s new in this version: Dashboard widget You can now watch, and help promote, our daily featured videos right from within the WordPress administration dashboard. There is […]

Matt Mullenweg, the guy behind WordPress, announced today that he’s hired someone to develop social networking features for WordPress: Some of you may remember when I wrote about Chickspeak, a WordPress MU-based social network. Andy Peatling, the fellow behind it, later decided to recreate the work he had done as an Open Source effort he […]

Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress.com, a free blog hosting service, has updated the amount of space it allocates to each user to 3 gigabytes: Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you‚Äôll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we‚Äôre always thinking about how the improvements we […]

Movable Type’s Anil Dash today announced that the popular blogging platform is being GPL’d, as Movable Type Open Source. It’s now open source and free for any use. The change makes sense for MT. WordPress was threatening to marginalize the Movable Type platform.¬† WordPress’s openness has been attracting the attention of developers and it’s become […]

Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, a popular blogging tool among podcasters, had announced preliminary plans for WordCamp, a WordPress conference to be held August 5th, 2006 in San Francisco, California. The goal of the conference is “To figure out the next generation of publishing on the web.” “The idea is a one day BarCamp-style […]