Some interesting things have happened lately in the blogosphere and some related areas, such as social media. Here are some of them:

Reddit goes open source

Reddit announced that it’s going open source. This is certainly an unexpected but very smart move, coming pretty soon after the redesign. Hopefully, this would be a good chance for developer to put in practice what users have suggested for a while, but owners did not implement. Way to go!

SecondBrain in BETA 2

About two weeks ago I wrote a post about this new social bookmarking and networking service called SecondBrain. At that time, SB was in its late BETA 1 stage, getting ready for the BETA 2. They also held a contest where members could win a MacBook Air. BETA 2 has arrived with new features. One of them is file upload.

File upload and sharing features – each user will get 1GB file storage to start with, with a pay option for more storage in the future.
SecondBrain

Also, in a few days, the contest’s finalists are to be announced. If you’ve signed up with them, make sure you keep an eye on the results.

Publish, share and interact with uberVU.com

Developed by the Romanian team of Metromind, uberVU is a service that claims to help you regain control over everything you share in the online world. Sounds promising, but since the service is in a private BETA 2 stage, you’ll need to apply for an invite.

At least, you can take a look at uberVU’s Beta 2 screencast:

All In One SEO Pack finds new developer

The news tell that All In One SEO Pack found  new developer, a person that goes by the nickname of hallofmontezuma, Michael Torbert, and who is also the developer of WP Security Scan and SMS Text Message plugins. So, after all, this plugin will still be around for some time. Hopefully, still providing high quality performance.

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Update: All In One SEO Pack has been picked up by another developer. Read more here.

The news has traveled across the blogosphere today. One of the most popular and useful WordPress plugins, “All In One SEO Pack” is no longer supported by its author, uberdose.

It is official as the announcement has been posted on the WordPress.org homepage of this plugin:

“This plugin is no longer supported or maintained.”
All In One SEO Pack

For now, the plugin is fully functional and compatible with the latest stable release of WordPress, 2.5.1, but since it will no longer be updated, that could change with future releases of this blogging platform.

While the news is most unfortunate for many WordPress users we could still look on the bright side of this. Now it’s the time for plugin developers out there to provide the community with a new resource, one that can make history and help us better optimize our blogs.

This is not an easy task, but like most great things, it’s not supposed to be. So, what do you think fellow developers? Are you up to the task?

The king is dead, who will rise up to the challenge?

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital for every online presence. If you’re looking to attract a large number of visitors to your blog, you should consider a tool to help you manage the important elements of your website in a SEO-friendly way. One of the most powerful and configurable WordPress Plugin that you can use for your blog’s SEO is Uberdose‘s All in One SEO Pack.

This wonderful plugin is available for free download on WordPress’ plugin archive and Uberdose’s personal website.

Main plugin features:
- Custom meta tags;
- Automated meta tags based on your posts’ content;
- Separate SEO for each post/page if required;
- noindex option for duplicate content pages;
- all in a user-friendly administration environment.

Grab this useful tool and start making your blog visible in search engines!

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