WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg gave the keynote at NYC Wordcamp, and afterwards he gave a nice demo of WordPress 2.7, due out in November.
Here is the video:
It’s looking quite slick. I love how easy it will be to customize the admin area, as I have a number of clients for which it’d be very useful to simplify things quite a bit. 
I’m really looking forward to this release.
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