Flickr was bought by Yahoo, as usual Om Malik called it right forever ago.

Usable Security is a new blog about—you guessed it—the intersection of usability and security. This comes up every few weeks since I improved the error messages on the WordPress login (and bbPress) to specify which part of the login was mistaken, the username or the password. Security folks see this as a problem because you’re revealing more information but I see making the error message more generic as premature security optimization. Plenty of systems where login names are public or easily discoverable, such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, most email systems, and so forth, seem to be doing just fine.

A different way to do rounded corners, for that chic Blogger look. Hat tip: Phil.

Gregory has a plugin that allows the sort of inline-editing we’ve been talking about the past few days.

Dave Winer says “The WaSP guys aren’t interested, because as designers, their livelihood depends on it being hard for users to create content.” I’m a WaSP guy and my life is devoted to making things easier.

A photo of me during the Blog Showdown presentation, Hat tip: Joe Clark. I’ve had a couple of people ask how best to tag me in a photo, I’ve seen some use “mullenweg” or “matt” or “mattmullenweg” but the best bet (and the one I watch) is “photomatt“. (Also, my happiest moment ever.)

The Yahoo toolbar is autodiscovering RSS feeds

At SxSW Mike let me know that Tim Kaine, Virginia governor candidate, has a WordPress blog.

A spammer, or a former one, compliments WordPress in this interview about 5 minutes in. It’s an interesting listen regardless. Hat tip: Praneet Kandula via email.

In our blog session Jay Allen described his vision for inline editing of weblogs, it looks like Owen is taking the first steps though I’m not sure why he’s doing it as a theme and not a plugin.

My last panel was yesterday at 5 PM so now I’m taking as much time as I can to catch the panels that are left and learn a few things. Speaking was more stressful than I expected but most of the feedback was good. I still need to check out the web feedback though, as people are probably more candid online than when they’re shaking your hand.

A great review of WordPress at Newsforge is up, very thorough and covers a lot of the resources at the Codex.

Battlestar Galactica is doing commentary podcasts, from the SciFi channel.