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Overstock will take Bitcoin payments in 2014

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The virtual currency Bitcoin had a hard week and while Bitcoin is already known for being very volatile, some retailer are still not shocked about this fact. Overstock for example announced on Friday that they will accept Bitcoin payments in 2014. Overstock is a retailer and sells everyday products like household equipment and furniture for the home. Apart from that they do also sell apparel for men and women and even jewelry and watches, health and beauty products and indeed also electronics. That is again a new posibility which allow Bitcoin owners to spend Bitcoins instead of treasuring them up … Continue reading Overstock will take Bitcoin payments in 2014

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Asking you… Do you prefer nested or non-nested chronological comment discussion settings on a blog?

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I did set up my blog so that comments and discussions can be nested. But at the moment I ask myself if I should go back to the normal settings which do not allow nested comments. The problems I see with nested comments is that you have to set up how deep discussions are allowed to be nested and if you set it up that it allows 3 or 5 levels of nested discussion, the conversation between the people can stop abrupt as people think that it does not make sense to reply to a person if the last level … Continue reading Asking you… Do you prefer nested or non-nested chronological comment discussion settings on a blog?

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Planet Automattic: Bytes from the People who Make WordPress.com

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Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
WordPress.com is the biggest blogging platform around, and one of the most visited websites in the world. Yet the team that keeps it running is an intimate group of 224 Automatticians (thinking of joining our ranks? We’re always hiring). Among them are the Code Wranglers at work on our great features, the designers who make sure every pixel in your theme is in its right place, and the Happiness Engineers who work around the clock to solve any issue our users encounter. Among the people working on WordPress.com, you’ll find marathon runners, home brewers, slam poets, and global nomads… Continue reading Planet Automattic: Bytes from the People who Make WordPress.com

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NSA spied on World of Warcraft, Second Life and Xbox Live

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It gets more and more perverted. Sorry to say this but I must say it again. The whole NSA organisation seems to be a perverted instrument of a government wich seems to suffer under paranoia. Don´t get me wrong… I have no problem with the US citizens but their government seems to be perverted and paranoid. Same for the british government with the instrument GCHQ. I follow the whole NSA skandal since some time now and I felt already shocked at least about some of the news. Then I also expected other things anyhow before Edward Snowden made the things … Continue reading NSA spied on World of Warcraft, Second Life and Xbox Live

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Digital Currency Bitcoin maybe in Free Fall again…

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Looks like the digital currency called Bitcoin is situated in a free fall again after the big rise of the last weeks. The value of the digital currency was now above 1000 USD for some time but it seems that this is over now. The Bitcoin currency is known for being very volatile. The price jumped immediately up to over 1000 USD when the Chinese search engine Baidu accepted the currency. But now the latest news is that the People’s Bank of China does not allow banks to handle with the Bitcoin currency in China. And not only this. There … Continue reading Digital Currency Bitcoin maybe in Free Fall again…

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Google PageRank Update in 2013 Dec 6

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A news here for webmasters and bloggers. Google updated the PageRank toolbar today in the early morning on Dec 6. Before this one, the last one was in February 4. Some time ago, a user on Twitter asked Matt Cutts of the Google Search Quality team if there would be another PageRank update in 2013 as a long time passed without any update from February on. Matt Cutts asnwered at that time “”I would be surprised if that happened.”… But the PageRank got updated anyway today Dec 6. It is always fun to find out about the new PageRank of … Continue reading Google PageRank Update in 2013 Dec 6