Now that Pinterest is the third most visited social network in the U.S., some startups are seizing the opportunity to facilitate pinning across the web. Case in point: WP Pinner, an all-in-one Pinterest tool for users of the blogging platform WordPress… Tweet This Post

As he has shown with books like “Here Comes Everybody” and his ideas about how the “cognitive surplus” has created a crowdsourcing explosion, Clay Shirky has a way of putting his finger on trends in media — disruptions that we are all experiencing, but sometimes fail to properly appreciate… Tweet This Post

Self-hosted WordPress users, get your update engines running: WordPress 3.3 is now available. The culmination of five months of hard work, WordPress 3.3 offers a number of new updates and tweaked features… Tweet This Post

After 14 million downloads of WordPress 3.2, WordPress 3.3 is being released to the wild today. Codenamed “Sonny” in honor of the jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, WordPress 3.3 is available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard… Tweet This Post

Automattic has teamed up with Federated Media to – finally – allow WordPress.com bloggers to make money from online advertising. The project is called WordAds and if you’re on WordPress… Tweet This Post

Brian Casel is the founder of CasJam Media, a web design shop that works with clients worldwide designing custom WordPress CMS sites. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam. Remember when WordPress was used only for blogging? Even all of the talk about WordPress being a true CMS seems to be old news these days… Tweet [...]

Leading digital advertising company Federated Media and WordPress developer Automattic forged a strategic partnership today that allows for greater interaction between advertisers and audiences from over 24 million blogs hosted by WordPress… Tweet This Post

When Klout announced in mid-September that Blogger and Tumblr would play a role in determining your Klout score, WordPress users immediately asked, “What about us?” Klout responded by quietly adding WordPress to its scoring system, which already factors in 11 other services: Blogger, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Google+, Instagram, Last… Tweet This Post

Enterprise-focused content management service provider Pantheon has officially launched out of beta with a goal of helping enterprise customers take their site management tools completely to the cloud… Tweet This Post

Koka Sexton is director of social strategy at InsideView and director of InsideView’s Social Selling University. InsideView helps sales professionals know their leads and prospects inside and out by delivering real-time sales intelligence seamlessly to any CRM… Tweet This Post

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. Self-hosted WordPress.org users got a nice surprise on Independence Day with the release of WordPress 3… Tweet This Post

In a blog post on the WordPress.com blog, Automattic‘s Justin Shreve this morning acknowledged his employer’s aspirations to turn WordPress.com into more of a platform than a mere Web-based blogging software service… Tweet This Post