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WordPress, the hugely popular blogging platform produced by Automatic Software, is becoming the default blogging platform for Microsoft Live users. Microsoft has pretty much killed its homegrown blogging platform, and that's good for both companies.

Bren Lee Gomez is one busy college student. In addition to managing her beauty blog, So Much Pretty, she's in the midst of launching online fashion competition blog, The Fashion Front line -- all this on top of school and work. We caught up with Gomez and got the details on her new blog as well as...

CNN firing Octavia Nasr over a questionable Tweet is the latest high-profile controversy regarding social media. The dust-ups show the difficulties many corporate cultures have as their employees embrace new ways of communicating.

Finding freebies on the web is a big deal - there are dozens, if not hundreds of blogs devoted to sharing free stuff online. But Collin Morgan, the freebie diva behind Hip 2 Save, is a cut above. I talked to Collin, 28, who started blogging two years ago, about staying on her game, fake freebies,...

WalletPop was recently at Epcot at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., to join the so-called Disney Social Media Moms Celebration. At a breakfast in the American Adventure pavilion in the hours before the Future World section of the park opened, Twitter luminary Guy Kawasaki flew in to address...

Have you ever wondered if that blogger is really a flogger pushing a product or service just a little too hard? Starting December 1, bloggers promoting any kind of stuff from a company must admit if they got cash or gifts to do so. This means blogging will be goverment-regulated for the first...

Many bloggers do so in coffee houses, libraries or even sitting on park benches. Then there's always the traditionalists who blog from their boring old offices, too. But Procter & Gamble Co., the maker of numerous household items, including Charmin toilet paper, are looking for five energetic...

It's no secret that Twitter still hasn't found a way to do much with money other than spend it. The company is pulling back on its plan not to run ads on the site, and continues to say that paid corporate accounts will likely be its ultimate revenue source. While the white-hot microblogging...

Nobody much likes the idea of Internet trolls who use the shield of cyber-anonymity to write hateful things about people on blogs or in comment sections. It's tempting to drop the hammer on these people in a manner similar to a judge who, last week, ordered Google to identify the author of a...

Last month, fellow WalletPop blogger Aaron Crowe interviewed the CEO of Izea on how he pays bloggers to tout the wares of advertisers. Now Izea plans to move its controversial marketing onto Twitter. It will soon unveil a new program called Sponsored Tweets, which will pay Twitter users to promote...