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Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired Poster, the popular iOS WordPress client. Its sole developer, Tom Witkin, will join the WordPress mobile team. Poster, which launched its 2.0 version in January, has already been removed from the App Store, but users who previously bought it will always be able to re-download it. Witkin also promises to continue to support it.

For Automattic, this is a smart move. Poster was always one of the most elegant and smarter mobile WordPress clients, and while the company itself has made great strides with its own mobile apps, they couldnt quite rival Posters design. As Automattics founder Matt Mullenweg told me, we have acquired the Poster app and its technology, and were excited to have Tom contributing to the Automattic mobile team. WordPress on mobile is growing rapidly and so is our investment in it.

Witkin says that this move will enable him to keep doing what he loves creating apps and experiences that enable and delight. Poster included features like Dropbox integration, Markdown support and full WordPress integration, including support for custom posts.

Its worth noting that WordPress own app doesnt currently have most of these advanced features, but chances are the addition of Witkin and some of the code he developed for Poster will soon find its way into the official client.

Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, the simplest, most secure way to start web-publishing immediately on the open source WordPress platform. They also make Jetpack for WordPress, which bundles a number of social improvements to the WordPress core software as a single plugin. Automattic offers a number of products, like VaultPress and Akismet, on a freemium model so anyone can use them for free, and later have the choice to pay extra for premium features. Automattic has over 150 employees, including...

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Automattic Acquires iOS WordPress Client Poster To Improve Its Own Mobile Apps

By John P. Mello Jr. TechNewsWorld 06/17/13 9:35 AM PT

WordPress -- one of the most widely used tools on the Internet -- is rife with vulnerabilities to hack attacks. The problem lies mainly with the plug-ins. No less than 30 percent of the top 50 WordPress plug-ins were found to have one or more critical flaws, according to a recent study by Checkmarx. The results were shocking, said founder and CTO Maty Siman.

Adobe Reader and Oracle Java aren't alone in having a bull's eye painted on their code by hackers. WordPress also is becoming a popular target for Internet outlaws.

It's quite a large target, too. About 18 percent of the sites on the Web -- about 60 million of them -- use WordPress.

One reason WordPress is attracting hacker attention is that it's so easy to write plug-ins for it, noted Maty Siman, founder and CTO of Checkmarx.

There are more than 25,000 plug-ins written for WordPress. "That's good for WordPress, but it has some bad security implications," Siman told TechNewsWorld.

For instance, every week there are at least two advisories on critical security vulnerabilities in a WordPress plug-in.

Checkmarx is releasing a study Tuesday on vulnerabilities in WordPress plug-ins. The task was daunting, Siman confessed.

Six months ago, the company started scanning just the top 50 WordPress plug-ins.

"We were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of results," Siman said.

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Blogs have come a long way in the last 10 years. The concept has evolved from teenagers reliving their angst-filled days on LiveJournal to the medium through which we now consume almost all content on the Internet. But, as is so often the case after years of incremental iteration: Innovation has all but ceased. Today, we find ourselves on the edge of the next big content revolution, because the truth is that--at present--online publishing is being pretty harshly neglected.

Before we can look at why, first we need to rewind a little. In early 2003, a rambunctious teenager named Matt Mullenweg was blogging every day about his life in college. His page consisted mainly of photos of himself, the girls he was evidently pursuing, and some very vague ideas about optimizing his life. It was a typical blog, but it was important to him--and that's what really counts. (Below, Matt Mullenweg circa 2003.)

Where Matt differed from most teenagers was that he had a keen interest in the politics of software licensing. Matt supported Open Source, free software that he believed was important to the Internet. So he didn't use LiveJournal or TextPattern--the most popular options at the time--he used a less known, smaller blogging platform called b2. After a while, though, b2 fell into disrepair and its creator was notable primarily by his absence. Matt threw around the idea of taking over the project for a while, and eventually this lead to him taking b2's files and renaming the project "WordPress."[1]

A few weeks ago WordPress celebrated its 10th birthday. It now powers roughly 20% of all websites which exist on the Internet. The success of WordPress is unquestionable, but there are signs that history is repeating itself once more in 2013.

When WordPress was first released, it was a blogging platform. It existed for the same reason as LiveJournal, but the difference was that it was Open Source, allowing you to host a blog on your own domain--a valuable distinction. Over the years people started using WordPress not just to build blogs, but to build entire websites. Good website content management software was hard to find, and while a blogging platform wasn't technically the right tool for the job, it was oftentimes a far easier one to work with than the alternatives.

So, as user and developer demand grew, WordPress began its long transition from blog to content management system. It wasn't an easy transition, and to this day, WordPress still tries to make sure everyone knows it's "not just for blogs" as it truly has grown into so much more.

And yet, it somehow feels like we're back in 2003 again. Publishing on the web is in a state of complete disrepair.

While WordPress hasn't fallen into disrepair, it's a far cry from what it once was. Mullenwegs company, Automattic, with some $81 million of investment, is trying to re-invent WordPress.com to be something used to create websites for restaurants, schools, and musicians. Meanwhile, the lead developers for the WordPress software are building incredible things like multi-site functionality and custom content types... but not a single one of them actually maintains an active blog[2].

There is no longer such a strong notion that WordPress is "just a blogging platform, because it's actually no longer a blogging platform at all. Matt Mullenweg himself now says that the future of WordPress is as a "web operating system."

The state of online publishing is clear. All around us we see new platforms popping up, growing, and trying to fill the very large shoes which WordPress has left behind. These are all proprietary products with closed licenses that exist--like LiveJournal and TextPattern did--to make their companies wealthy.

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Prime Suspect creator was discussing article accusing her of saying word But she went on to use it twice more before presenter changed subject

By Paul Revoir

PUBLISHED: 10:55 EST, 17 June 2013 | UPDATED: 11:45 EST, 17 June 2013

Radio 4s flagship news show Today has been censured by Ofcom for breaching broadcasting rules after crime writer Lynda La Plante used the word retard on the programme.

During a live interview Miss La Plante, best known for creating TV series Prime Suspect, uttered the offensive word three times when appearing to discuss her induction into the Forensic Science Society.

Ofcom said that it considered the language had the potential to cause offence to the audience and that on the second and third occasions it was used it could have caused considerable and gratuitous offence.

Offensive word: Crime writer Lynda La Plante (right) used the word 'retard' during an interview with Today presenter Sarah Montague (left)

The regulator said Miss La Plante, 70, had appeared not to recognise the possibility that the word may be offensive to listeners and did not apologise.

It added that neither did the presenter, Sarah Montague, explicitly challenge the guests use of the word when it was repeated, instead opting to try to change the subject.

When asked if she got a lot of people writing to her questioning her about her work, Miss La Plante said: Not questioning. I get a tremendous amount of fans. I mean, I have a lot of questions that Id like to ask myself, but the misquoting of me is a consistent and really irritating fact.

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