WordPress Stays Hip with the Times, Adds Gears and Looks to OAuth

Open source blogging platform WordPress may have won most peoples’ hearts as the best blogging platform in town, but that doesn’t mean its core developers are resting on their laurels. The company made two statements last night about moves its users are sure to love. WordPress announced last night on the company blog that WordPress.com users have a new blogging option called "Turbo," which uses Google Gears to speed up the service’s admin functionality. Just an hour earlier, WP founder Matt Mullenweg indicated that users should look for OAuth support in future versions of the software. Gears The new WP.com Turbo feature uses Google Gears to download more than 200 files to users’ local computers so they can be run without accessing the web. Though many of the most high-profile Gears implementations elsewhere are focused on providing off-line functionality, it’s not clear whether that’s the case here or if Gears is just being used to ...