Patrick Havens on December 13th, 2007

Alex King has written a number of plugins, including ones used on this site. So it was with interest I read about his latest contract project for Yahoo.? He was asked to help code a plugin to integrate a number of Yahoo’s services in WordPress with a plugin called Yahoo Shortcut’s.
The examples he gave [...]

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Stats from Valleywag showed that Apple’s iPhone browser has grabbed a 0.09 percent share, which might not seem like much until you compare it to the competition. Windows CE, which encompasses every Windows Mobile device shipped, holds a 0.06 percent share; Danger Research’s Sidekick product family holds a tiny 0.02 percent share; and the Symbian S60 [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 29th, 2007

Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, has rejected a $200 million acquisition offer, says multiple sources. Half the price was to be paid in cash, half in stock in the buyer.The company, which has raised just $1.1 million in capital, has been on a tear [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 26th, 2007

Turns out what happens in Hawaii only stays there long enough to launch itself toward our inbox. Take for example, what struck some attendees as a budding romance between TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, the former Fox executive Michael Arrington hired to run his blog’s business end, and Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress. Now, TechCrunch [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 20th, 2007

If you haven’t kept up with the latest Captain America comic plot lines, you may be in for a shock to learn that the virile symbol of American patriotism is dying and he has to choose a successor from among a band of merry marines and office trollops. But who lurks over his left shoulder? [...]

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