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I am sure you have all seen some pretty avatars floating almost all over the web in countless blogs, forums etc… It was made possible thanks to efforts of Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars), but offlate Gravatar seemed to have scaling issues with its amazing rate of growth. This is when it became an automatic choice for Automattic to acquire. Automattic with its vast experience  with Server scaling and architecture thanks to Akismet and Wordpress.com are going to be of tremendous help to Gravatar.

If you haven’t noticed here are some changes to Gravatar in the past few days since the acquisition :

• Automattic transferred the Rails application and most of the avatar serving to WordPress.com infrastructure and servers.
• Avatar serving is now more than three times as fast, and works every time.
• All the Premium Services like Multiple email id’s and avatars are now free. Everyone who paid for a premium account in the past 60 days will be refunded.

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Well, I just upgraded from Wordpress 2.2.3 to Wordpress 2.3. After Upgrading, Ultimate Tag Warrior no longer works, so I am using the built in Taxonomy system in Wordpress 2.3. Before I could add tags to my posts via Windows Live Writer, my favorite desktop blogging client, but after the Wordpress Upgrade that no longer works.

I went searching around the internet, and found the solution that I was looking for and here the steps that I took to be able to post tags from Windows Live Writer.

First of all, if you are on a self hosted Wordpress Blog, download wlwmanifest.xml from Wordpress Trac. This patch somehow didn’t make it into the 2.3 Release, so hopefully it will in Wordpress 2.3.1. Once you have downloaded the zip, extract the folder and upload it to the root folder of your blog, i.e. the place where the wp-config.php resides.

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