Techie Blues

Nokia has opened pre registrations for Nokia 5800, which is more popular under the name “Nokia Tube”. The phone is debuting in India in the month of January and is aptly priced at Rs 20,990.

Wikipedia has finally launched its mobile site. This site is just the striped version of Wikipedia website.

Del.icio.us one of the best social bookmarking site has finally come up with a mobile version at http://m.delicious.com. Though this site is still in beta, you can still login to delicious, browse your bookmarks or go through the popular bookmarks of the delicious community.

Six Apart, the company behind various blogging softwares like Typepad, Movable Type and Vox has acquired the microblogging startup Pownce for an undisclosed amount and are closing it down by Dec 15th.

Few Days back the Wordpress team found a major security issue in the wordpress 2.6.3 and released the version 2.6.5. The security issue is an XSS exploit that affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. Along with the security issues, 2.6.5 also rectifies 3 other minor fixes. [...]

The first public beta of Wordpress is out finally. According to Wordpress, the design is almost completely implemented but final touches are yet to done and also the Beta version provides the best experience in Firefox and Safari but facing some glitches on IE and Opera.

Youtube has changed its logo to suit the occasion of Halloween that occurs on Oct 31. This logo looks kinda spooky which is the essence of Halloween.

Did you like the new logo of Youtube? Do pass on your comments.

Ever wanted to view your tumblr site in an iPhone version. Then check out Tumblephone. You can view your tumblr site in an iPhone optimized version.

Wordpress team has found a vulnerability in the Snoopy library . Snoopy is used by Wordpress to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Download the following 2 files to upgrade to 2.6.3

Finally, after a long period of speculation, Google has announced the integration of their own Google Adsense and Google Analytics. The feature is now slowly being rolled out to the publishers and cover all the publishers very shortly.