WordPress.com testing promoted posts with iReach, a PR Newswire company

Automattic, the company behind Wordpress.com and its 3.6 billion monthly pageviews, is testing a new native advertising monetization option with its massive blogging community: promoted posts.

One year after being acquired by Twitter, Posterous shuts it all down

From Twitter's perspective, I guess, once the aqui-hire is complete and you have the hires, why keep the acqui?

WordPress.com goes down, taking millions of blogs (and us) with it

Wordpress VIP's slogan is "Stop worrying about downtime." We'd really like to, actually.

How to take back control of your own social networks

If you don't like the way social networks try to own your data, but you're not willing to sign off completely, there is a third way. Here's how to regain control of your own stuff without giving up Twitter and Facebook.

WordPress launches version 3.5, with new media-uploading tools

WordPress 3.5 offers a new, streamlined media-upload and gallery-creation tool for WordPress.org users.

HootSuite adds 5 more power tools to manage blogs, videos … and Pinterest

This morning HootSuite users will find five more apps in the social media power tool's app directory: Vimeo, Wordpress.org, Via.me, Reachli, and Scripted.

Case study: How Cleeng can help set up paywalls and registration gateways

Many content publishers looking for new revenue streams have experimented with paywalls, with mixed success. But if you've got content that people are willing to pay for, paywalls can work very well indeed.

WordPress releases live-blogging plugin (with a massive, deadly bug)

Popular blogging platform Wordpress just released a new plugin to make live-blogging super simple for everyone. Unfortunately, the plugin also makes it unbelievably easy to completely and utterly destroy your entire liveblog without even knowing it.

Pantheon nabs $5M from Foundry, others for smarter Drupal site development

Drupal-based content management startup Pantheon has raised a $5 million first round of funding from Foundry Group and a few others to help move enterprise website management to the cloud, the company announced today.

As we’ve written before, Pantheon wants …

WordPress and Facebook are finally together, officially

Facebook announced an official WordPress plugin today for cross-posting content, enabling tighter, cleaner, and simpler integration between millions of WordPress blogs and Facebook. All I can say is: finally!

I’ve been using WordPress blogging software since before it was WordPress. …

Ultimate team-up: Federated Media and Automattic partnership brings ads to WordPress.com

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.com.

The partnership, which was announced during the Web …

Pantheon launches Drupal-based cloud site management for enterprises

Pantheon, a content management service provider for enterprises, has officially launched out of beta and is now focused on helping customers move their site management tools completely to the cloud.

“Pantheon gives you enterprise-class tools with the ease of a …

WordPress runs 15 percent of the web’s highest trafficked sites

Online publishing software company WordPress released some incredible growth statistics Friday, including that WordPress is running on top of 14.7 percent of the world’s top one million websites. Almost equally astounding is that 22 of 100 new active domains are …