Yoono is a plugin which has been around for a couple years now and I’ve seen it both featured in the Firefox plugin directory and reviewed on a number of other websites. I guess the best way to describe it is as the Flock sidebar for Firefox, however with support for more social networks and [...]

Not dead, just sleeping.
Seriously though, I haven’t given up on this blog, I just took a break for a week or so due to things getting a bit out of hand for me and also because I’ve been doing a lot of work on the backend of this blog.
In short, I liked the design, but [...]

As so frequently pointed out by open source proponents; the greatest thing about open source software is that anyone can modify, create and build on existing code and products. Flock is a notable example, as is Songbird and even Chrome.
BuddyPress was a project to convert a vanilla installation of WordPress MU (Multi-User) into a social [...]

Good news for plugin authors with the changes coming with WordPress 2.7. So far the features which have currently already made it into the release are:

Today WordPress 2.62 was released as a minor update to 2.6.1 and includes about 10 bug fixes and patches a security issue:
With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password.  The randomly generated [...]

The Windows Live development team released a technical preview of Live Writer about 3 months ago. The release was predominately to test the new Writer SKD for creating plug-ins.
This release is largely about updates to the Writer SDK, which now includes hooks for pre- and post-publish events.
The biggest changes are the additions of [...]

Some of the latest extension-based news from around the blogosphere:

Hack WordPress WordPress Plugin: Display your comment count to your readers
A Feedburner-like chicklet to display your total blog comment count
LifeHacker Battle of the Must-Have Firefox Extensions
16 extensions to choose from, vote for your favourite.

Disqus went down today for about half an hour or so.
Previously (eg: 3 weeks ago) Disqus going down would be a big deal. That would mean no comment system for any disqus enabled blogs, and switching to default WordPress commenting would mean no previous comments stored on the Disqus system.
Luckily, thanks to the new WordPress [...]

WordPress.org, great resource though is, frankly sucks when you want to sift through the crap and find some decent plugins.
I actually find it easier to simply Google what I want which usually finds it far easier then using WordPress search.
Obviously it has annoyed others as well, Yoast.com had this to say:

Logged into the Extendably dashboard today to be greeted by this message:

This is a bug fix release, but also returns some functionality which was missing in the Disqus 2.0 plugin, originally removed.
After the initial Disqus 2.0 release some issues where reported, and consequently fixed in a build released very quickly afterwards. These included:
Not being [...]