WordPress 2.2 is out, the first release in this new faster release schedule that the developers have adapted. It has lost its tagging feature since they wanted to make it better, it’s slated for 2.3 which is due in September.

There’s a lot of fixes in the 2.2 release, 244 closed tickets it appears, and a few new features. Widgets is an integrated part of WordPress now, something I’m not too fond of but fine, I won’t bitch about it. Mac users will be happy to know that the WYSIWYG editor should work in the next version of Safari. Oh joy, right?

Anyway, check out the launch post and grab it if you will. I haven’t updated any of my blogs yet so I don’t know if you should expect trouble, but I haven’t heard anything yet…

By the way, 2.2 is named “Getz” and Matt is treating us with Got That Swing over at his blog. Happy listening.

MXN Limited is the new owner of premium domain porn.com, according to the DomainTools blog (via Techmeme). They claim that this is the second largest adult domain transaction, behind sex.com of course which sold for $14m.

The new owner is going to take their time to consider what long-term project plans they will take with Porn.com. They said, “It does not need to transform overnight. In the meantime, we will keep it parked with PremiumTraffic.com, a leading domain name monetization company”.

That’s probably a good idea. I wish I had $9m to put on something and then just let it linger while I figured out what to do with it…

Apple, a company on a constant honeymoon with the blogosphere it seems, updated their MacBook consumer line today. Nothing fancy really, just more juice when it comes to the Intel Core 2 Duo processors, a bigger hard drive and shipping with 1 GB RAM from the start.

“The MacBook is a huge hit with customers, and is one of the reasons that Mac sales are growing three times faster than PC sales,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The new MacBook is faster, has even more memory and storage, and is an ideal notebook for customers’ growing library of digital music, photos and movies.”

In other words, the rumors where true and I’m totally biased about it. I would probably buy a smaller MacBook Pro, 15.4″ screen doesn’t rock my boat so I went with the standard one, but this won’t get me to upgrade. It also feels like a poor boost to the standard MacBook given the fact that the Pro range is rumored to be getting the Santa Rosa chipsets and better screens in the near future.

Anyway, that’s it. Have a look in your local Apple Store via apple.com if you’re interested in buying one, or just check out the press release. There’s a Techmeme discussion as well, but that probably doesn’t come as a great surprise, right?

Digg is in trouble, although they might not even know it, which I think they do but that’s beside the point. They’re in trouble because the people who are making their service interesting, the content providers, are starting to get pissed off. There’s a lot of talk of censorship around Digg these days; here’s the most recent Techmeme thread, which originates from a post by Neil Patel over at Pronet Advertising.

What happens to a social content service when it appears too frequently around this kind of accusations? A smaller one would falter, perhaps even crash totally, but Digg is not a newcomer nor a baby in the business. They’re the giant in their area, Netscape, Reddit, StumpleUpon and whatnot are just up and coming projects but not real competitors. Or are they? Could Digg actually alienate their core crowd with this proposed behavior? True or not, just the fact that there’s a discussion about wether Digg is censoring or not, and how they’re doing it (Digg users burying “anti-Digg stuff” is old news) is hurting the site.

Core Digg users will probably stay, but others will leave, in search of other places to share their stories with the world wide web. Like Netscape, Reddit, StumbleUpon and whatnot…

Wallstrip, the web show with a pop culture take on the stock market, have been bought by CBS News according to Jossip. The blog claims that the price tag where around $5 million, which should boost the wallets of investors Fred Wilson and Howard Lindzon I’m sure.

This is interesting of course, since it appears that Wallstrip is making no or little money. TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley (former blogger here at 901am) confirms the story and I’ll add my own belief to his: that CBS is looking for an Amanda Congdon 2.0 in Wallstrip host Lindsay Campbell.

Nothing is said about the deal on the Wallstrip site yet, by the way. Also, the price tag will probably render us a whole bunch of web show so beware of impending video garbage…

Update! It seems that Jossip and TechCrunch have gotten Fred Wilson’s involvement a bit wrong. He hasn’t negotiated any sale whatsoever, according to this blog post, and Union Square Ventures isn’t involved either. Fred is merely a curious angel investor as it were. I’m guessing his wallet isn’t going to be that thick after all, at least not from the Wallstrip sale anyway…

No, it doesn’t have anything to do with dollars. Or rather, of course it has, but that’s not the obvious goal with the Yahoo Green campaign. Rather, the company wants to help people to make better choices to save our environment.

“What is the biggest way for us to have an impact? The biggest way by far is to get this message out to half a billion people,” Yahoo Co-Founder David Filo said in an interview.

A Reuters report points out that the software giants are battling it out on who can help save the world the most.

Yahoo rivals like Google and Microsoft are racing to outdo one another with corporate environmental measures, said Matt Petersen, president of non-profit advocacy group Global Green USA, which advises Starbucks and Yahoo on environmental moves.

It’s all the craze these days, to help fight the climate change. As far as I can tell nothing bad can come out of it, and although I’m guessing these giants are after the positive PR as much as wanting to make a difference, it’s all good anyway. Let’s get it on!

TV series hit Heroes, the biggest thing to come out of NBC in quite some time it appears, is nearing its season finale. The end, the one that will bring everything together. But there’s a second season coming, of course, and it’s due this Fall.

To keep viewer interest over the Summer, NBC will not only continue to update the online graphic novel but also publish Inside Heroes online. I’m guessing it’ll be behind the scenes andstuff like that, and B&C seems to agree. For the hardcore fans then. It’s due May 21 over at nbc.com.

Facebook is set to do classified ads, according to PaidContent.

Not that MySpace classifieds put the world on fire, but Facebook, by virtue of being more organized, might have a better chance at it: it is adding free classifieds. It is calling the new service Marketplace and plans to introduce it on Friday, reports NYT.

Classified ads is a sure way for newspapers to earn money, so it should come as no surprise that sites like Craigslist have dug deep into their pockets. A well oiled community (sorry, social networking service) should be able to further move the classifieds online, leaving the newspapers even more out of that particular game.

I love the Google Labs concept. It’s a place where all the fun stuff Google developers create end up, before they get an actual launch or just get canned. Surfing the Google Labs website is fun itself, and I try to do it on a regular basis just to get a little insight in how the folks at Google think.

One of the great products in Labs is Google Reader, in my opinion the most competent online RSS feed reader there is. I’ve used it for quite some time, and it’s just great. Not the slow clunky piece of work it was from the start at all, Google Reader is getting better and better.

And suddenly a link to Google Reader wound up in Gmail, at the top where you’ve got your shortcuts to Calendar, Documents and so on. Adding Reader to the fray is a great move, but it’s still stuck in Labs (check out the telling logo if you doubt me). Why is that?

What is in store for Google Reader? Either Google is planning to move it out of Labs soon, but why add the link to Gmail now if that’s the case? Or they are adding the link to see how many users will adopt it at its current state before seriously considering moving Reader out of Labs to a real release…? I don’t know, but I love me some Google Reader so get to the point already!

The toolbar powered social bookmarking site StumbleUpon have launched its new design, and it’s looking pretty good. Also, it’s looking pretty much like social sites tend to look, something my buddy Muhammad Saleem points out over at Pronet Advertising.

Here’s a screenshot:

The sub pages makes use of the layout from the front page pretty well, with tags to the right and listed stories to the left. That big welcome blurb you see on the front page isn’t used however, maybe it could be if they added some moderated top story system, although the blurb’s a bit big for that. Videos just list the videos, the best way to do it actually.

All in all, I think it’s a pretty decent redesign that could do with a bit of polishing (especially spacing around the top). Go check it out.