I remember posting about Pownce some time back. The Django powered, Kevin Rose cofounded micro-blogging service.

It’s offically closing it’s doors on the 15th of December 2008 as a direct result from a buyout by Six Apart. The blogging platform specialist.

Current Pownce users might not be happy about this but somethings sometime just don’t work out the way you want them to. Twitter’s dominance in the micro-blogging world can be seen everywhere today and I’m quite confident that it might have been a challenge for Pownce to keep up with the giant. However, all is not lost. If you’re a current Pownce user, there’s an export option for you to migrate your data over to other services.

2009 is going to be interesting. The guys from Pownce and now with Six Apart. Something awesome is bound to come out from this new aliance.

Let’s wait and see. Thanks Pownce!

Sources: Pownce | SixApart | FuckedStartups

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.2 this morning using the WPAU plugin.

The release fixes a vulnerability in the password complexity which could allow user passwords to be reset by the attacker who can later use mt_rand() to predict the random password.

Upgrade if you allow open registration.

Download WordPress 2.6.2

I use the is_home() conditional tag to control when my ads show up. I prefer to only have my ads show up when single posts are viewed. Helps keep my home page looking clean and relevant.

Currently, I have my ads setup to show on all pages except for my home page. To get the same functionality setup on your WordPress simply wrap your ad codes with the code below.

<?php if ( !( is_home() ) ) { ?>

[your ad codes go here.... ]

<?php } ?>

ALternatively if you want your ads to only show up on your home page,

<?php if (  is_home()  ) { ?>

[your ad codes go here.... ]

<?php } ?>

If you use static pages for your home instead, then replace is_home() with is_front_page() .

Try it out, drop me a note if you need help.

Negaraku Digg Style

Negaraku the local news aggregator I posted about some time back has gone through it’s evolution cycle and now emerged as a Digg clone.

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WordPress 2. 6 (Tyner) is out with some new improvements.

1. Post Revisions :: You get to diff your post changes now.

2. A new Press This! button. :: Directly post from any site you are on. Plus support to automatically detect media files from sites like YouTube and Flickr.

2. Google Gears :: My fav, you get a local cache for your WordPress. Speedier access and the possibility of new and better feature moving forward.

WordPress 2.6 with Google Gears

3. Theme Previews :: Now you get to preview your theme without enabling it.
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