September 2009
4 posts
RSS Links Widget →
The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks…
Sep 10th
After the Deadline Live for WP.com →
Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all…
Sep 9th
RSS in the Clouds →
Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader…
Sep 8th
August Wrap-Up →
I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way. Our…
Sep 4th
August 2009
6 posts
Support Hours and Updates →
In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among the lovely faces here) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us Happiness…
Aug 27th
New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1 →
Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs. Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry,…
Aug 20th
SoundCloud →
We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as Beck, Moby and Sonic Youth now use the…
Aug 14th
WP.me — shorten your links →
Check out this address: http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about  70% smaller than the …
Aug 14th
New Theme: iNove →
iNove by mg12 is one of the top themes used for self-hosted WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on WordPress.com. We’re always doing what we can to…
Aug 13th
July Wrap-Up →
We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress. Later in the month we…
Aug 5th
July 2009
6 posts
Archives Shortcode →
You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our …
Jul 30th
Gravatar Widget →
Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp…
Jul 23rd
PollDaddy ratings and polls →
PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our great features directly into the WordPress platform ever since. Ratings The PollDaddy rating…
Jul 17th
Vote for Media Features →
Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open…
Jul 8th
June Wrap-Up →
Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn…
Jul 3rd
National Blog Posting Month →
Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with…
Jul 2nd
June 2009
2 posts
SocialVibe →
You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if you could use that influence to make a positive social impact? Now you can. We’ve teamed up with…
Jun 16th
May Wrap-Up →
Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever. May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time…
Jun 15th
July 2008
6 posts
Your feedback →
Time for a quick update. Days from the public launch of bit.ly, SwitchAbit had the distinct privilege of being on lifehacker.com (thank you!). The amount of feedback has been mind…
Jul 14th
switchAbit and twittergram posting suspended →
We have suspended posting of switchAbit and twittergram while we investigate problems surrounding requests to SimpleDB. We apologize for the inconvenience. Jay
Jul 14th
Introducing bit.ly — the incredible professional’s... →
http://bit.ly/ is a URL-shortener with lots of new stuff designed for an app developer who needs everything and more! 1. History — we remember the last 15 shortened URLs you’ve created….
Jul 8th
Stay in touch with Twitabit →
Twitabit now includes replies in the queued posts. This means that you can keep the conversation thread going even if Twitter is down. Dig that. http://twitabit.com/ Jay …
Jul 4th
Duplicate Postings
The system we use to keep track of previously posted articles experienced problems starting around midnight EDT last night. We misinterpreted the returned results as “unseen”. This has resulted in duplicate posts for some of our members. The folks @switchabit sincerely apologize for the flood. We have fixed our code to not post when a malformed response is returned. Jay
Jul 4th
Twitter API, never a dull moment
The Twitter update status API is currently both working and not working. Posts are going through. However, the payload should contain the identifier for the new status message. Unfortunately, this is what we are seeing: <html><body><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1></body></html> In order to prevent circular posting, we have been forced to turn off switchAbit...
Jul 2nd
June 2008
4 posts
twitabit, tweet anytime →
The switchAbit team loves Twitter. We love it so much that we can’t stop tweeting even if it’s down. That’s why we created twitabit. Twitabit uses the store and forward technology…
Jun 19th
Jun 17th
Twitter store and forward API →
is a simplification of the switchAbit post api for store and forward posting to twitter. This function mimics the Twitter api and can be used with existing Twitter libraries by changing the endpoint.
Jun 12th
RSS/Metaweblog is in the wings
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on an RSS/Metaweblog service to support Wordpress, Drupal and others.
Jun 3rd
May 2008
5 posts
Doing what you expected?
Bits have been switching for over 24 hours now. Is it working the way you thought it would or should?
May 31st
Initial impressions
Post your initial impressions of switchAbit in the comments of this post. -Jay 
May 30th
You are cordially invited →
Invitations have been sent to those who expressed interest in the switchAbit beta. A developer blog with disqus is available here for tech talk and support. We added some nifty graphs, so you…
May 30th
SwitchAbit sneak preview →
Welcome to switchAbit. We’re opening up switchAbit for a special sneak preview. If you are interested in taking a look at what we’ve been up to, send us an email. We will still be sending…
May 29th
Hello World
This is the developer blog for switchAbit. Please post your questions, comments or concerns here.  Jay
May 29th