Wordpress 2.9 was today pushed to all sites running the preferred blogging platform, marking the last major update for the platform for 2009 as the developers behind the CMS look for a new default theme for the subsequent release in 2010.
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Facebook Plan to create “Sponsored Stories” Self-Serve
Days after Facebook initial announced its sponsored stories product, we’re hearing that the business continues to be actively pitching third-party ad platforms on extending the merchandise through the company’s increasingly popular Ads API. That indicates we're able to soon see sponsored stories show up like a self-serve product for all advertisers about the web site.
Tumblr adopting the Twitter API
There were 2 new developments during the past week about the Twitter API and, incredibly, they do not truly have anything to do with Twitter in any way. Rather they need to do with 'old school' blogging platforms WordPress and Tumblr adopting the Twitter API as their own.
Wordpress incorporates with twitter
A blogging platform and a microblogging platform became more symbiotic. WordPress has enabled the posting and reading blogs, the platform powers through the Twitter API. This implies any Twitter app that supports a custom API URL can be employed to either post updates to your WordPress.com blog, or to read updates from blogs you have subscribed to.
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