Great to see that RIM has relaunched their official BlackBerry blog, using WordPress.

The blog is called Inside BlackBerry, and aims at “bringing you authoritative content about BlackBerry® smartphones directly from the people who make them”:

[ Visit Inside BlackBerry & be sure to check out the WordPress for BlackBerry app ]

UPS has announced the launch of their new blog, Upside, which is running on WordPress.com VIP Hosting:

The Upside blog, designed and built by T3 is a “blog created by UPS to share personal insights and perspective about the largest transportation company in the world.”

Some really interesting content posted so far including a video of how UPS and Zappos are working together.

[ Visit blog.ups.com ]

Thanks Cátia Kitahara for lettings us know about a new BuddyPress site which is being used to enable and foster debate about various aspects of today’s digital life in Brazil. Built by the Brazilian Culture Ministry, the beta site is now live at culturadigital.br:

The site describes itself as “an open public space destined to democratically create and build a public policy of digital culture, integrating citizens, government institutions, state companies, civil society and the market.” Making use of all the “Facebook-in-a-box” features of BuddyPress, this site is off to a great start and could be a model for other organizations and companies looking to build this kind of community engagement and interaction.

[Visit culturadigital.br ]

For publishers looking at the search traffic benefits of WordPress, Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google, offers his take:

WordPress takes care of 80-90% of (the mechanics of) Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Below is a great video of Matt speaking at WordCamp SF 2009 about how Google search works and what publishers should be doing to ensure proper indexing:

[ Slides from Matt's presentation available on mattcutts.com ]

Thanks to all your feedback, we have a new beta available for download today.

The most requested feature that we’ve been working on, is support for BIS via the BIS-B connection layer. We’d love feedback in the forums on how BIS is working for people on various devices and with different providers.

In addition to BIS support, the new beta includes the following:

• Added support for the “more” tag in both pages and posts
• Tweaks to the UI based on user feedback
• Most error messages are now localized
• App now work even when the device memory is set to “encryption mode on”

Looking forward to all of your feedback.

And a special thanks to Schalk Neethling of OpenSource Release Feed for his contributions and recent help on this app.