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• American moms love Facebook, Nielsen survey shows

  If you're looking for a last-minute gift for Mother's Day, don't bother sending her a Facebook invite - chances are, she's probably already on it.

• WordPress security update patches external libraries, several vulnerabilities

  The WordPress development team released WordPress 3.3.2 on Friday in order to address several vulnerabilities in the popular blogging platform as well as in three external libraries that are bundled with it by default.

• WordPress leads the blogging platform pack

  Despite a growing list of alternatives, WordPress continues to be the most popular blogging platform among the world's most popular blogs, a study has found.

• Old image resize script leaves 1 million Web pages compromised

  A serious code injection vulnerability affecting timthumb, a popular image resize script used in many WordPress themes and plugins, has been exploited in recent months to compromise over 1 million Web pages.

• Zero-day vulnerability found in a Wordpress image utility

  Hackers are exploiting a problem with an image-resizing utility called TimThumb that is widely used in many themes for the blogging platform WordPress, although some fixes have been made to the latest version.

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  IT managers choosing SharePoint over WordPress

  Despite an increase in popularity of WordPress, IT teams are still choosing to deploy SharePoint as an enterprise CMS, a local chief architect has claimed.

• WordPress: DDoS attacks came from China

  The large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that hit the WordPress.com blog publishing platform last week originated from China, according to the founder of the site.

• WordPress 3.0 adds better customization

  The open-source content management system WordPress turned seven years old last month. In its lifetime, it has attracted a devout following: More than 28,000 people download WordPress every day, with over 11.4 million active installations, including news outlets and corporate sites.

• WordPress 3.0 blogging software released

  A new version of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress has been posted, the cadre of volunteers behind the software announced on Thursday.

• WordPress guns for Web content management duties

  Long popular with bloggers, the open-source WordPress blogging software is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.

• Botnet authors crash WordPress sites with buggy code

  Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.

• Wordpress puts RSS in the cloud for real time updates

  Popular content management system and blogging platform Wordpress has turned on support for a new technology that enables people to receive push notifications of feed updates on Web sites and blogs.

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  Drupal gains ground down under

  The open source content management system (CMS), Drupal, continues to gain popularity both locally and internationally. The CMS powers several new high profile websites including the Prime Minister's site, launched last month and designed by Canberra-based company OPC IT and ABC's three digital radio websites – Dig Music, ABC Jazz and ABC Country. Internationally, it is used by organisations as diverse as Obama's administration in the US to Greenpeace to McDonalds.

• From foal to Facebook: Easter Show meets Web 2.0

  Each year thousands of people from country NSW descend on Sydney for the Royal Easter Show, but this year millions of people around the world can experience the show online via social media portals like Facebook, YouTube and MySpace in its biggest Web 2.0 technology push ever.