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Pitfalls and Benefits of Website Hosting Changes

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It is never an easy decision, at least for me, to change hosting providers.

Especially this one as I had several years invested in the company and the web space including a lot of files that would need to be moved. However, the recent performance of my former webhost was just spiraling . . .

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Storify for WordPress Plugin

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“ Storify’s new WordPress plugin lets you create stories directly from your blog tnw.to/1CjYj by @nfm on @TNWapps

The Next Web Tue, Jan 10 2012 14:48:16

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WordPress Releases Version 3.3.1 Update

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WordPress has released version 3.3.1 to address a security issue and took advantage of the update to make some maintenance updates as well.

According to the release announcement:

WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability . . .

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Infographic: Your Thoughts On WordPress

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After conducting a recent survey of over 2,000 WordPress users, Woo Themes, has published an infographic for the results.

WordPress is an extremely popular back end for a lot of websites and is estimated to be running on over 15% of sites world wide.  Want more proof of its popularity?

Well . . .

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WordPress 3.3 Released

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Matt Mullenweg, the guy leading efforts at WordPress, revealed in a blog post earlier tonight that Sonny is ready for prime time.  Sonny of course is the traditional Jazz Musician based code name for the third major update to WordPress since it hit version 3.0 in June 2010.

WordPress has had over . . .

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 31

Welcome to Episode 31 of the Observed Tech PODCAST. In this show we discuss Amazon possibly releasing a Windows Phone next year; Facebook adding sponsored stories to their real time ticker; Xbox By The Numbers; Google+ pages getting multi-admin and owner transfer ability; $25 of free apps with purchase of a Windows Phone; Black Friday deals on social media; tagging friends in Google+ photos; Google+ now has trends and search filters; updated Hotmail website and help center; students choosing physics because of the Big Bang Theory TV show; Call of Duty Modern warfare breaks another record; Skype allows Facebook friend calling; 10 things about WordPress 3.3; Bing search share rises in October; Facebook tracks you from the start; PayPal and Facebook start a Send Money app; more Windows 7 themes; Hotmail attachment reminder feature; consumers want tablets instead of laptops; Windows 8 is not coming to your Windows Phone; Brandon Watson motivating developers and the making of the Xbox. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com . . .

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