WordPress 2.8 came out today.  According to its developers, this release contains some 790 bug fixes.  It’s now available for download from the WordPress site.

Entrecard began as a community-drive way for blog owners to trade ads.  Now, it’s becoming a paid ad network.

If you use the service, you probably know that Entrecards, which used to show approved ads from community members, and paid you in credits, and allowed you to advertise on other Entrecards, now show paid ads 50% of the time.  You can reject paid ads, and check an option (it’s not checked by default!) to only allow approved ads on your widget, but that doesn’t change this core change in the purpose of Entrecard.  OK, so that’s not what Entrecard was to begin with, and not what we signed up for.  But maybe we’ll all make some money, so let’s hear them out.

If you learned how to make websites in the 1990s, there’s a very good chance that you started out on a GeoCities website, or at least owned one at some point.  The service started providing free websites to just about anyone back in 1995.

Word is that Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 today.

The new version of Microsoft’s browser is ready to go.  And just as IE7 was less annoying than IE6, IE8 promises to be even better, with updates to its rendering, including expanded CSS support.  Better AJAX functionality and RSS tools are also included.

Being a bit of a gamer myself, it’s always interesting to see the gaming world touch on my professional world.  Here’s an example of the gaming industry getting social media right.