September 2011
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March 2010
1 post
Rub-a-Dub-Dub in the PubSubHubbub →
From the tongue twisting name department we welcome PubSubHubbub, or as some people have shortened it to: PuSH. Like rssCloud, PuSH is a way for services that subscribe to updates from your blog…
February 2010
2 posts
Publicize: Facebook →
You can now send your WordPress.com posts to Facebook.
Joining our Yahoo and Twitter features is our latest in WordPress.com’s Publicize family: Facebook.
The feature can be…
WP.com Downtime Summary →
Today WordPress.com was down for approximately 110 minutes, our worst downtime in four years. The outage affected 10.2 million blogs, including our VIPs, and appears to have deprived those blogs…
September 2009
4 posts
RSS Links Widget →
The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks…
After the Deadline Live for WP.com →
Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all…
RSS in the Clouds →
Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader…
August Wrap-Up →
I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way.
Our…
August 2009
6 posts
Support Hours and Updates →
In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among the lovely faces here) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us Happiness…
New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1 →
Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs.
Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry,…
SoundCloud →
We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as Beck, Moby and Sonic Youth now use the…
WP.me — shorten your links →
Check out this address:
http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten
If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the …
New Theme: iNove →
iNove by mg12 is one of the top themes used for self-hosted WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on WordPress.com. We’re always doing what we can to…
July Wrap-Up →
We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.
Later in the month we…
July 2009
6 posts
Archives Shortcode →
You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our …
Gravatar Widget →
Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp…
PollDaddy ratings and polls →
PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our great features directly into the WordPress platform ever since.
Ratings
The PollDaddy rating…
Vote for Media Features →
Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open…
June Wrap-Up →
Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn…
National Blog Posting Month →
Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with…
June 2009
2 posts
SocialVibe →
You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if you could use that influence to make a positive social impact? Now you can.
We’ve teamed up with…
May Wrap-Up →
Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever.
May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time…
January 2009
31 posts
Ultimate Kamen Rider team this Sunday! →
This Sunday TV Asahi will air the first episode of the new Kamen Rider tokusatsu show, the ultimate follow-up to Kamen Rider Kiva and all the other Heisei era Kamen Rider shows…
Baby cause of Kimi ni Todoke hiatus →
I really should write about things as soon as I find out, but well, this way you get lots of news the days I write… right?
Karuho Shiina, author of Kimi ni Todoke, takes a break from being…
Kingdom Hearts →
I recently discovered Tradera, an auction site, part of eBay (it says), and now I’m addicted to auctioning! Actually, I didn’t just discover it recently, but I’ve never been a member and done…
FUNimation acquires rights to FMA OVA →
Unfortunately, this news isn’t related to the new FMA anime, but an OVA called Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium Collection which (guess who?) FUNimation has now acquired the license rights to. That’s…
UppCon:09, I’m on my way! →
The Swedish convention about Japanese popular culture UppCon is this weekend and I’m going there for my first ever convention experience! I’m hoping and believing that it will be awesome, and…
Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE →
Well, I was going to write about this earlier when I found out, but… I was too lazy, that’s it. Anyway, here it is!
You may be very familiar with Megami Tensei, or MegaTen, and may not. The soon two…
Jewelpet toy anime on its way →
Sega’s and Sanrio’s toy franchise “Jewelpet” will be animated for Japanese TV. This was announced at the Toy Forum 2009 convention in Tokyo.
Source: Famitsu Magazine
Posted in Anime, News Tagged:…
Official website for Hana-sakeru Seishounen is up →
The coming NHK anime Hana-sakeru Seishounen (yes, I know the site spells it “Hanasakeru Seishonen,” but I’ve written this way before on this blog and will continue doing so forever) will go up on TV…
Japanese YouTube with subtitles? Kadokawa tests... →
Kadokawa launches their new kadoTV service in a test stage where they will stream content previously uploaded to their channel at YouTube with subtitles underneath in several languages - even…
Winter 2009 anime lineup →
I realize I never posted an updated list after my earlier post on the new winter 2009 anime season, so here is a post dedicated to this winter 2009 anime lineup over at Sankaku Complex (seems that…
New Shuriken Girls short at CES →
For Sharp’s booth at Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, a new Shuriken Girls, or Shuriken Shoujo, anime short animated by Gainax was featured, promoting Sharp’s T-Mobile Sidekick…
Yoichi Fujita drops Gintama →
Gintama’s director Yoichi Fujita stated in an interview with the magazine Animage together with the same show’s former director Shinji Takamatsu, the main character Sakata Gintoki’s seiyuu (voice…
A second Haruhi Suzumiya series? →
Earlier today, Mainichi Mantan announced that the upcoming February issue of Newtype will reveal new info on the second series of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya about the occult fanatic Haruhi…
Web Ghost PiPoPa and Skip Beat! simulcasts on... →
The newest two additions to Crunchyroll’s library of Anime Membership-only simulcasts (the episodes will be available to non-paying users as well, but not as quick “simulcasts”) are Web Ghost PiPoPa,…
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest playable demo →
So I turned on my Xbox 360, automatically connected to Xbox Live and saw a list of new free-to-download content, one of which were a playable demo of Electronic Arts’ and Pandemic Studios’ coming…
Shugo Chara!! Doki— simulcast on Crunchyroll →
The second anime adaption of Peach-Pit’s manga Shugo Chara!, also the sequel to the first anime adaption of the same manga, Shugo Chara!! Doki— will be simulcast on Crunchyroll to members who have…
The official Final Fantasy XIII website is up! →
I’m looking across the web and guess what I find! Square Enix have recently (I’m not sure when exactly) launched the official Final Fantasy XIII website with screenshots and music supposedly from the…
Cross Game gets anime adaption this spring →
Now that I have had a few hours break I am ready to keep updating you on what’s going on in world of Japanese popular culture (isn’t there a shorter way to say “Japanese popular culture”?).
This…
Hayate no Gotoku OVA →
If you can’t wait until the release of Viz Media’s I’’s box set on March 24, an OVA for Hayate no Gotoku, or Hayate the Combat Butler, will be released on March 6 in both DVD and Blu-ray formats. The…
I’’s box set from Viz Media →
If you’re a big fan of Masakazu Katsura, creator of DNA2, Shadow Lady and Video Girl Ai, you should prepare yourself to rejoice: the 24th March Viz Media will release a 2-disc box set of the two…
Six more shows on Crunchyroll →
Okay then, now starts the before promised parade of Japan-related news and first up - embrace yourself - we have Crunchyroll! That’s right, yet another news post about Crunchyroll…
Starting…
Vampire Knight Guilty - Complete →
Wow… I actually watched through half a year of anime in two days. Vampire Knight’s 13 episodes and Vampire Knight Guilty’s 13 episodes makes 26 episodes total, or, if you will, 26 weeks - half a…
Vampire Knight - Complete →
Yes, some news have started showing up again and I promise I will write about them later, but now I’m just here to leave a quick note about the awesomeness that is Vampire Knight. Yesterday I watched…
Hyakko - Complete →
Thirteen episodes later and I’m finished with Hyakko, one of the most hilarious shows I have ever watched. As always I’m not much of a reviewer, but I’ve got some pictures that won’t spoil the ending…
Fall 2008 anime schedule →
This is mostly for my own reference so I know which of the fall 2008 series I am going to watch to the end simultaneously as I watch some of the new winter 2009 season shows, but you are free to view…
Kurokami - Episode 1 →
The new winter anime season has started and so far five new shows have started - or at least that’s the number of shows I’ve yet decided check out. The first contender for 2009 is Kurokami, or Black…
Speed up page loading in Firefox →
If you’re not using Firefox, go ahead to Mozilla’s website and get it immediately; if you, however, are using Firefox already, we can get started. First, though, I would like to point out that this…
New One Piece movie to celebrate anime’s 10th... →
Two years after Shueisha’s celebration of Eiichiro Oda’s pirate manga One Piece’s ANN1 ANN2 10th anniversary it’s Toei Animation’s turn to celebrate the anime’s 10th anniversary by releasing a tenth…