Wordpress 2.8 was released few days ago. Version 2.8 has many improvement and many new good features over the old version. But the new version also have few bugs. Wordpress is working to fix all bugs of version 2.8 and and they are working to new wordpress version 2.8.1

The Beta of version 2.8.1 is out. it is actually first maintenance of release 2.8. to 2.8.1 It will fix a handful of bugs that turned up in 2.8. Wordpress version 2.8 have some of the notable issues and that are fixed in beta 1.

Below are the details of fix

• Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
• Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
• The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
• A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
• Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.

Google has released official SEO Starter Guide in 40 language. This guide seems to be very useful for all webmasters.

List of the languages available:
* Arabic
* Bulgarian
* Catalan
* Chinese (Simplified)
* Chinese (Traditional)
* Croatian
* Czech
* Danish
* Dutch
* English
* English (GB)
* Filipino
* Finnish
* French
* German
* Greek
* Hebrew
* Hindi
* Hungarian
* Indonesian
* Italian
* Japanese
* Korean
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Norwegian
* Polish
* Portuguese (BR)
* Portuguese (PT)
* Romanian
* Russian
* Serbian
* Slovak
* Slovenian
* Spanish
* Swedish
* Thai
* Turkish
* Ukrainian
* Vietnamese

Before you submit your website to new Microsoft search engine Bing.com search if your website is already nidex by Bing, because Bing is reported to be fast in indexing new websites. Also, old websites are already index by Bing.

If, however your site is not Index by Bing, submit your website here http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

Also, visit Bing webmaster portal, http://www.bing.com/webmaster

There is no more live.com search engine. Bing.com is new search engine from Microsoft replacing live.com

Many people think, its just old live.com search engine with new name, but truth is its different from Live.com and many people have found it better than Google.

Bing is pretty fast, cool layout. Many webmaster have found that Bing index their site only in few hours

Bing is expected to be support by huge advertising campaign in print, television and on the Internet, spending $80 million to $100 million on the effortr.