Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has aquired Intense Debate (ID), a hosted commenting system based in Colorado yesterday.

ID with its cool features like threading, e-mail replies, reputation points, voting, and global profiles will be built directly into future versions of WordPress and Gravatar. It means better management, tracking, organization and easier comment flow with the holy grail of a universal OpenID. And with its comment importers and exporters feature, you are free from the fear of losing your comments database.

I couldn't find out how big is the money for the acquisition. Do you know? With 4,194,374 blogs hosted in WordPress.com alone, and still counting, along with more than a quarter of a million legitimate comments every day, I bet it is huge money.

Dropbox is about file sharing and syncing needs. With the service, you can share your files with anyone you want using a public URL while at the same time you can do some backups and syncs, and access your files from any browser or mobile device.

Dropbox works just like any other folder on your computer, but with a few differences. With its web interface, you can drag and drop to move files around. Any files or folders inside Dropbox will get synchronized to Dropbox's servers and any other computer linked to your account. It may remind you of how Nokia Phone Suite works, but it is actually more like an intranet environment. You have your shared documents for sharing and public folders for non-Dropbox users. Any files in here will be given a link that you can send to others in e-mails, IMs, blogs, etc. without requiring people to sign up for Dropbox. And this way it is more like RapidShare or MegaUpload. And if you want to keep the files for yourself, just don't put your files in public or shared documents folders.

WordCamp Philippines 2008 which was attended by 400 Filipino bloggers and held in two venues, Davao and Manila in the Philippines last September 6 was a success. It was considered a landmark event for the country, as it was the first WordCamp organized in Asia, South East Asia precisely and also attended by the creator of Wordpress himself.

To those who didn't have a chance to attend it, here is the Wordpress lead developer Matthew Mullenweg...

Jordan McCollum yesterday echoed a frequent question, Blogs (HUH): What Are They Good For? when she commented on MarketingSherpa research on What Blogs Deliver: Impact Rankings .

The survey wanted to see the impact of blogs as seen by several thousand companies – both business and consumer-focused. So, what are blogs good for a company?

Just wanted to share this slideshow video for those who are interested to see dozens of newspaper and journalism websites that use Drupal, the open source social publishing software that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.

Micro-blogging, nano-blogging, or pico-blogging whatever, changed the way we express and interact online. We don't need any more in-depth stories, err well we do sometimes. We have no more time for long story, most of the time yap. We want things simple and simplified. Yay!

Twitter comes with its pros and cons, facebook status, yonkly, sweetter, kronologger follows. Spoink goes a bit further with its multimedia micro-blogging service that enables you to podcast on any phone from anywhere as well as post audio, video, pictures and text via short message service (SMS), instant messaging (IM), email or via a web browser.

Do you really have to remember everything when you can actually spare your busy left brain for other better things than those nonnegotiably fixed, sometimes unnecessary to memorize stuffs? How about a cheat sheet? Yes, something like a reference card that may be printed on paper or perhaps set as your desktop wallpaper that will help you remember things quickly.

Are you a good designer who wants a brand new 8GB iPod Touch? Then go for it. The submission deadline is 9/30/2008.