WordPress 3.0 - Downloaded 30 Million Times

CALIFORNIA - A lot of achievements that have been passed by WordPress. Four million blogs have been made in WordPress within the last three months. Now WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded more than 30 million times.

A few months ago, WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded 20 million times. Since then, the download numbers continue to grow rapidly. The number of downloads may increase again because WordPress will be launched next few days. As quoted from Softpedia, Tuesday (01/08/2011).

Recently, many users have started to switch from blogging services like WordPress to a kind of social networking site Twitter. At the same time some people are also switching to a more simple blogging service like Tumblr or Posterous. 2010 is the best year for WordPress as 16 million new blogs appear on the site.

WordPress is a open source Content Management System (CMS), used as a blog publishing applications, powered by PHP and MySQL. WordPress has many features, including plug-ins and templates system. WordPress is used by 13 percent from 1 million of the world's largest site.

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Twitter Spreads to Afghanistan Through SMS

KABUL - Afghanistan's telecom operators began to open up access to Twitter. Although still rely on SMS, access is guaranteed to be excellent.

Roshan, a telecommunications operator in Afghanistan, which could introduce a mobile Twitter posting tweets via SMS through mobile phones. This service is for customers in Roshan, especially young children.

According to Roshan, as quoted by Cellular News, Friday (1/7/2011), demographic conditions in Afghanistan will make this service becomes popular. Even noted, young people in Afghanistan are active users of social networking, with the number reaching 60 percent of the total population in the country.

"With this new service, Roshan is not only able to become hub for family and close friends but also pave the way for Afghans to join the social networking community in the world," said COO Roshan, Altaf Ladak.

According to Ladak, communications and information ministry of Afghanistan realize that most active internet users in the country visiting social networking sites. With this service they will be easier to socialize in cyberspace.

Twitter mobile itself is not the first social networking service provided to its Roshan customers. The company is the pioneer service operator that offers access to Facebook, Hi5, as well as the Blackberry service.

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Foursquare, Heaven For Stalker?

EDINBURGH - Be careful in using social networking sites "shared location" like the Foursquare, Koprol and other similar services. A man in Edinburgh, Scotland, admitted being followed for nine months by a woman who followed the movement in cyberspace.

Lothian and Borders Police received a complaint from a 26-year freelance designer from Stockbridge, Edinburgh. The man was admitted often followed by a woman 22 years, who met in an exhibition last year. This woman who has followed the designer in secret for nine months.

After meeting exhibition, the woman sent him an email and SMS and call her every day. She even often appear in places you've visited the man, even though they had just met. Known, the woman track the presence of the victim through the site location tracker Foursquare, the user can 'check in' to share information about their whereabouts with friends.

Designers were finally contacted the police after the woman sent an email to his clients as well as send some message with a false name and pretend to be interested hire him. Derek Graham, who works for an Internet Investigations Unit Lothian and Borders Police, claiming that this is the first case he encountered.

"Foursquare has been rampant. Up also launched a similar application where you can tell your location," said Graham. "Currently, all people interact online and it also has an impact on crime. You have to be careful with the information you provide (in cyberspace)," he continued.

"This is the first incident that I encountered but everyone should be careful. This problem is very likely to be larger. Interaction online is not going to disappear, so people should at least be vigilant," thoroughly Graham, as quoted by the Telegraph, Friday (7 / 1 / 2011).

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