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This week Wordpress 2.6 was released. A few new features were introduced. It is now possible to jump back to earlier versions of posts by using the post revisions. It will show you who made changes to a file and when he did this. You can even compare versions. And you can restore a post.

There is also a new feature called “press this!”. It is a bookmark in your bookmarks toolbar which opens an editor voor posting articles in Wordpress. You can grab text and images from the website you are on.

Offline blogging is now an option too. With the help of Gears you now can use Wordpress on your local machine. This will speed up blogging.

Some other features are: theme previews, word count, image captions, bulk management, revamped image control, customizing avatars, and a lot more. Just upgrade to the new version and start playing with it.

Flickr released Flickr video today. Pro user now can upload 90 seconds / 150Mb of video. Anyone can view them (based on privacy settings off course). Just like with photos, other user can embed your photos in external webpages (again based on the settings).

Bonus: Flickr is also doubling the size of photos that can be uploaded — 20MB per photo for pro members and 10MB per photo for members with free accounts.

Update (11th april 2008): It seems a lot of Flickr users want Flickr to stay a photo only community. Justine explains it and has her own opinion.