Month: December 2008

Dec 13

WordPress Targets Premium Designers for Deletion

In a page possibly taken from Microsoft’s crushing of Netscape, Automattic is using its WordPress theme directory to penalize the sale of customized blog designs. “Themes for sites that support “premium” (non-GPL or compatible) themes will not be approved,” the WordPress.org theme directory now warns. The removal affected about 35 percent of 700 free themes available from…

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Dec 8

Lalawag So. Calif. Tech Blog Launches

In one of those ‘why hasn’t someone thought of this before moments,’ a blog has launched to cover the tech startup scene of So. California and along the West coast. Sean Percival, who worked for Mahalo before it laid-off 10 percent of its workers in November, says the news and gossip site Lalawag will borrow heavily from the snarky remains…

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