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• More Top WordPress Plugins for Social Media
  Are you still looking for more social media plugins to help boost your WordPress site through integration with some of the most popular social networking sites around? If our previously released list containing ShareThis, AddToAny, SexyBookmarks, Sociable, and I Love Social Bookmarking didnt do the trick, here are some similar plugins that might have the features you are looking for.
  
  
• Oracle Announces New MySQL Specialization
  Oracle announced the expansion of its Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized program with the addition of a MySQL Specialization. MySQL holds the distinction of being the words most popular open-source database offering, boasting a customer base of over 3,000 independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, and value-added resellers. Oracles latest creation of the MySQL Specialization reaffirms the companys commitment to increasing the appeal and presence of the MySQL platform.
  
  
• Oracle Releases Communications Data Model 11.2.5
  Will competitors such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and SAP follow Oracles lead when it comes to big data? Some analysts believe so, as they claim Oracles recent release of its Big Data Appliance running Clouderas distribution of Apache Hadoop will likely catch the eye of IT managers looking for a comprehensive solution for their corporate data needs.
  
  
• PHP Closures as View Helpers: Lazy-Loading File Data
  In this second part of a two-part tutorial, you'll learn how to use closures in the development of an extendable template system. This system can be customized at will without struggling too much, thanks to the number of interfaces that it implements.
  
  
• Constant Contact Chooses SkySQL for MySQL Support
  Constant Contact, a provider of marketing services to over 450,000 businesses worldwide, recently announced the selection of SkySQL as its go-to choice for MySQL-related support, software, and other services.