Automattic Acquires Gravatar

The firm behind WordPress acquires Gravatar: We transferred the Rails application and most of the avatar serving to our WordPress.com infrastructure and servers – Avatar serving is now more than three times as fast, and works every time. – We’re going to make all of the Premium features free – bring the bigger sizes (128px) …

Apple Shizzle: iPhone SDK in February, $0.99 DRM Free songs on iTunes & Leopard arriving Oct 26

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. + iTunes Plus now offers over …