Shira Lazar

Mar 17

New Theme: Liquorice -

Add a dash of color to your site with Liquorice, a wonderful new theme now available on WordPress.com.

Gorgeous textures and smooth-as-silk typography make this a striking backdrop for your…

Mar 12

Guided Transfers to .org -

When we launched Jetpack a few days ago Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg said to Techcrunch, “If you’re on WordPress you’re part of the family, it shouldn’t matter if we host you or not.”

Mar 11

Amateur videos of massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan -

The latest amateur videos from YouTube and other sources in the continuing coverage from the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan

Mar 10

Video: Mad Men make pitch for high speed rail -

Shira Lazar brings you behind the scenes of Funny or Die’s latest PSA, and talks to Mad Men’s Pete Campbell about supporting high speed rail.

Mar 09

Boost your self-hosted WordPress with Jetpack -

WordPress.com has grown into one of the most amazing cloud architectures in the world. This has enabled blogs hosted here to have features unavailable on self-hosted WordPress installs. This makes…

VideoPress now on iPhone, iPad, and HTML5 browsers -

Back in the middle of 2009, we launched our very own HD video service called VideoPress. Since then we’ve made a bunch of improvements including the ability to natively share videos in Facebook.

Mar 08

Some Turbulence -

You’ve probably noticed that the ride has been a bit bumpy on WP.com the past week with a widely covered DDoS attack last week and then another interruption a few hours ago from an unrelated…

Mar 07

Would you buy a self-driving car? -

Google demos a car that drives itself

Mar 05

WordPress Takes SXSW -

WordPress Takes SXSW
Next week a bunch of us from Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, will be attending South by Southwest Interactive. It’s one of our favorite events of the year, and we hope to see…

Video: Google's self-driving car test drive -

Shira Lazar gets a test ride of Google’s self driving car with Software Engineer Sebastian Thrun at TED 2011 in Long Beach, Calif.