VideoPress was recently announced by Matt and Michael Pick has posted a wonderful video that introduces VideoPress for WordPress.com. Guess what! They’ve been generous enough to release the open-source version of VideoPress for WordPress too!

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When it comes to patience level, I’m one of those guys who doesn’t loses his temper quickly (except few cases – like when I see people not applying common sense, not driving in sensible way etc.) and I tend to give chances to improve. You may be wondering that why am I talking about my patience level all of a sudden. Reason is pretty simple, IntenseDebate has already tested my patience level and I don’t see any reason for me to continue using that service anymore.

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It was very interesting step taken by Yahoo! Inc. to give one of its acquired service i.e. Blo.gs (one of the coolest domain one can think of) to Automattic Inc. Blo.gs is a blog ping update service and here’s how they’ve explained themselves -

This is a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs, in the spirit of services like weblogs.com and blogtracker and blogrolling.com.

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WordCamp India 2009 is just 2 days away. Today, I had a great opportunity to meet Om Malik and Matt Mullenweg. I have to say that both the guys are pretty cool. Om shared his memories of India and was completely amazed at the amount of changes Delhi has seen all these years and Matt on the other hand was trying to pull Om’s leg. No wonder! They are good friends. We all know that how Matt loves photography and the moment me and Sameer entered the room, we were greeted with three quick pic shots.

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Adobe India and Automattic have graciously decided to sponsor WordCamp India for us. It was getting pretty hectic for us to arrange the sponsorship and then one fine day we got the good news that Adobe India is ready to sponsor the event and that they’ll be giving us the space and food for the attendees. Automattic has been pretty supportive for the whole event and have agreed to sponsor the event partially.

Here is the venue -

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We all sing praises of WordPress and can be labelled as fanatics and to be honest, this is one piece of software for which I won’t dislike this label at all, otherwise I hate the label of FAN. I was thinking that there will surely be many questions where there can be one single answer for it – i.e. WordPress. So, let’s find out those general questions where we can proudly (as fans) answer it as – “WordPress!!”

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People who know me personally would know that I’m a firm believer of the fact that videos and screencasts are going to be pretty huge on the internet and that they will play important role in the success of any blog. I was fortunate enough to conduct an e-mail interview with Michael Pick. Michael recently joined Automattic(the company behind WordPress, bbPress, BuddyPress, Akismet etc.) as a LightBulb Engineer (Michael has explained the idea behind this enlightening position in this interview itself) and his job is to create Screencasts for WordPress. Prior to taking up the job at Automattic, Michael used to run Smash Cut Media – where he offered professional screencasting services.

I would like to thank Michael, for taking time from his busy schedule and answering these questions for our readers and I hope that this will encourage more and more people to start screencasts or create videos on their blogs.

1. Which software do you use or recommend for creating screencasts ?

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