The LA Times has just launched a site from their Media Group, Media Kit, aimed towards advertisers. The site, running on WordPress, walks potential advertisers through the process of gathering information and planning an advertisement with the Los Angeles Times.
The LA Times also has two blogs on WordPress.com VIP – their popular Framework and Hero Complex sites.
[Visit the LA Times Media Kit site]
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Etsy had a record-breaking weekend between Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year, and their network continues to grow!
On their site Code as Craft, hosted here at WordPress.com VIP, their engineers take a deeper look at what it takes to run such a successful network and system architecture, and discuss a wide range of topics from performance to user security. 
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Will you be at the LeWeb conference in Paris, France, December 4-6th?
On December 6th at 14:15 CET, WordPress co-founding developer and Automattic President Matt Mullenweg will be on the main stage with Om Malik from GigaOm interviewing. The talk may be shown in streaming, but that is to be confirmed. You can follow @WordPressVIP to stay updated on the day and let us know your thoughts, too!
If you’re attending LeWeb and will be at Les Docks those days, make sure to stop by the booth where we’ll chat with you about the latest news and developments in the WordPress project and community, and we’ll have some swag to give away, too!
For more info: LeWeb.co
The New England Sports Network has launched right here on WordPress.com VIP! The regional network is owned by the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins and delivered to over 4 million homes throughout the six-state New England region and nationally as NESN National.
The definitive source for New England sports programming, NESN has consistently been one of the top rated regional sports network in the country and was the first regional sports network in the country to originate every game and studio show in high definition. Their site is constantly updated and has a special theme for mobile content access as well.
[Visit NESN.com]
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Flickr relaunched their developer blog, Code.Flickr.com on WordPress.com VIP!
If you didn’t know, the Flickr blog is also running on WordPress and WordPress.com VIP Hosting!
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The past nine releases of Jetpack have started to reveal our vision for next-generation features that will boost WordPress’ incredible success by making it more social, more connected, more mobile, and more customizable.
Over three million downloads later, we’re excited to report that the community has embraced this seemingly impossible vision for combining the best of hosted and non-hosted WordPress. This tenth release brings some of the most-asked-for features into the hands of millions of Jetpackers.
In this infographic, we’ve compiled a partial list of outstanding authors who are using WordPress to power their websites. Many of them are right here on WordPress.com!
See the full post on the WordPress.com blog for details about some of your favorite authors’ sites on WordPress.
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This week the next installment of the James Bond movies, Skyfall, will debut. The official James Bond site, 007.com, is on WordPress and is full of features, videos, and media from the James Bond film series over the past 50 years.
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MSNBC has launched their TV news portal, tv.msnbc.com, right here on WordPress.com VIP hosting. Being billed as ”The Digital Place for Politics,” the central site is the place to get all the latest news from MSNBC news shows. Besides following a particular show’s news, you can follow “Issues” like Politics, Health, or Education across all their shows, or access “Voices” which groups all their opinion articles in one place.
The site also integrates social media components into the WordPress site, like the MSNBC Facebook page and a Twitter stream consisting of Tweets from all the MSNBC show Twitter accounts.
Visit tv.msnbc.com!
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The new mobile site for Sports Illustrated, m.si.com, is live and right here on WordPress.com VIP!
You can see the site for yourself by going to m.si.com, but to really appreciate and access all of the content and features, check it out from your smart phone. Stay up to date with the latest game scores, follow your favorite SI.com writers, read the latest stories by sport, and even dive into the numerous SI.com blogs from your mobile.
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