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WordPress 2.3 is right around the corner. Schedule for release on Sept. 24, it has several nice, new features. To get up to speed, I’d recommend reading 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3. It’s the first article I’ve seen that sums up all the work and changes from 2.2 to 2.3 in an easy to understand format.

The most notable change is the support for “tagging” posts. Similar to Flickr and other sites, posts will not have categories and can also be tagged with more general relationships. This addition changes the structure of the WP database and could possibly break some of you favorite WP plug-ins.

I’ve installed Release Candidate 1 on another site and the only casualty was the excellent Extended Live Archive plug-in. I doubt the problem will be fixed, since the plug-in has seen little activity. Maybe someone will come along with something similar for 2.3.

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Having worked in electronics retail for many years, I know that cutting edge products will always drop in price and that first gen. products will always improve with later releases. Even if I weren’t in the middle of a Sprint contract, I personally would have waited. Still, there were hundreds of thousands of people that purchased iPhone’s. The fact that Steve Jobs and Apple will offer customers who paid $599 for their iPhone a $100 credit is amazing. Kudos to Apple for listening to their customers and actually doing something about it.

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Warner Brothers T-Works Logo

I’m not sure exactly what it is, but Warner Brothers T-Works sounds interesting. Warner’s animation library is equaled only by Hanna-Barbera, so it’s definitely a smart move to leverage that library as one property, rather than continue to split it up piece by piece. T-Works sounds like a MySpace, SecondLife, YouTube environment all rolled into one with a backbone of Warner animation characters. I guess we’ll have to wait until 2008 to see, but I’m definitely interested to learn a little more.