For all you WordPress for iPhone users out there, version 1.3 of the app is live. Seems like it beautiful much just fixes some compatibility issues, but it should help with stability if nothing else.
Also, just fyi, there’s a strange version numbering problem with this release. Here’s how the WordPress for iPhone blog explains it…
Please note: Due to a strange glitch when submitting the app, the About page of the “1.3″ version will say version “1.21.1″. If you see that, you are running the correct version. We are working with Apple to comprehend why it would not accept “1.3″ as a valid version, yet displays that version in the iTunes store just fine.
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TechCrunch reports that Twitter has started linking hashtags. They note that Friendfeed alalert does this.
Now that they are hyperlinked, when you click on a hashtag, you are led to the search result page for the specific hashtag. Others have been implementing this; FriendFeed (big surprise) has been doing this for awhile. Some of the Twitter clients, including the desktop versions of Tweetie and Seesmic Desktop also provide hyperlinks to hashtags.
Turning the hashtags into links makes good sense and it will increase the usage of hashtags. A couple downsides with hashtags - they abbreviate the length of a tweet and they are often used by spammers, like they were today with news of Sarah Palin’s resignation.
You can see the hashtags turned into links into graphic of a search for the #hashtags #hashtag
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Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is now indexing tweets from some popular Twitter accounts. If you search some of the more popular Twitter accounts on Bing it will return a couple recent tweets. For example if you search “Celebrity Gossip Twitter” on Bing it returns a couple of the latest tweets by @celebritygossip.
You also gets tweets back if you search Martha Stewart Twitter or Robert Scoble Twitter.
Bing says they picked a few thousand Twitter accounts to start with but could add more later.
We’re not indexing all of Twitter at this time…. just a small set of prominent and prolific Twitterers to start. We picked a few thousand people to start, based primarily on their follower count and volume of tweets. We think this is an interesting first step toward using Twitter’s public API to surface Tweets in people search. We’d love to hear your feedback as we think thcoarse future possibilities in genuine time search.
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According to a post on the WordPress Development blog today, there are finally some concrete GPL related answers regarding some fuzziness in the communities (and WordPress’s) understanding of exactly how themes fit into the GPL framework.
Long story short, the php (or at minimum the parts related to hooking into WordPress) of themes ARE requiruddy to be GPL compliant. The tricky bit is, the images and css are NOT. Meaning a theme could be partially GPL and still retain copyright of the artwork/design to some degree.
Here’s a snippet for you…
The PHP elements, taken together, are clearly derivative of WordPress code. The template is loaded via the include() function. Its contents are combined with the WordPress code in memory to be processed by PHP along with (and completely indistinguishable from) the rest of WordPress. The PHP code consists largely of calls to WordPress functions and sparse, minimal logic to control which WordPress functions are accessed and how many times they will be called. They are derivative of WordPress because every part of them is determined by the content of the WordPress functions they call. As works of authorship, they are designed only to be combined with WordPress into a larger work.
If you want more details, head over to the post on the Dev blog for the full situation, including some more fun legalese type stuff.
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