Check out this guy’s Flickr page.  OK that makes my Flickr page look downright amateurish doesn’t it?

Common people, Twitter is pretty awesome.  This is a guide to Twitter to help get everyone (even your mother) on Twitter.

Source: http://mashable.com/

“A little while back, we covered the release of WordPress 2.6 here on Open Ended. Since then, we’ve seen an incredible welcome for the newest version of the #1 blogging and content managment system on the internet. Matt Mullenweg, the creator of the open source system, has published a blog post with some astonishing statistics.

• Since the release, there have been around 23,000 daily downloads – approximately 345,000 total.
• The tutorial video posted along with the release notes has been viewed over 665,000 times.
• There are over 201 thousand blogs using 2.6 already, about 9% of all known WordPress.org blogs in 10 days.
• There have been over 300 themes submitted to the brand new Theme directory, released around the same time as 2.6.
• In the same period (10 days) there were 579,871 downloads of 2,527 plugins from the official plugin directory.

Matt also mentioned that many users wait for the .1 version after a new upgrade, so he expects to see these statistics to grow even more once 2.6.1 comes out. Only a very small amount of users have reported problems, and this upgrade seems to still be going very smoothly compared to those past. With many large corporations such as CNN and the BBC using WordPress, the CMS that was once an underdog seems to be growing and expanding all the time”

Source: Arstechnica.com

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Hey Twitter lovers, for some reason I just noticed the other day that my Google Talk client wasn’t sending me tweets.  Evidently after doing some Googling it looks like they turned off the IM service because it may have been at least one of the main causes for the Twitter stability issues they were having.  I found a Firefox extension which I have been loving called Twitterfox which basically gives me the same ability to receive tweets almost instantly.  I love getting notified instantly of tweets because I can quickly get informed of events.  For instance today I learned from Jason Calacanis about the Southern California quake about 20-30 minutes after it happened with a link to his Mahalo.com page.  Give Twitterfox a try or let me know what you recommend.

Somebody actually took the time to do this?