Update: The contest is now over, and the winners have been chosen.

I left a little hint at the end of my last post, and to some this may not be a surprise to you, but to any Theme Lab is three years old today! It’s exactly three years after the first post here.

In the past year, lots was accomplished. Most notably, a new design, along with several new free theme releases and various coding tutorials and tips.

I wanted to celebrate the third birthday with a giveaway, so I contacted a select few of the leaders in the commercial WordPress product arena to donate three of each of their respective flagship product.

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I installed the TweetMeme WordPress plugin the other day, and I’m pleased with the results.

Not only was it really easy to install and configure, but I’ve noticed several people actually using the button to retweet my posts. You can see it in action in the top right corner of this post.

In this WordPress plugin review, I’ll go over installing the TweetMeme plugin and give an overview of the options. And there’s a screencast too! All after the jump.

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It was just announced today that WordPress 3.0 has been released and you can get it here. This is considered a pretty big release with many new features and bug fixes, I’ll list some notable ones below:

• A merge of WordPress MU and WordPress, making it possible to run multiple sites from one installation.
• New features for theme developers including new APIs to have custom backgrounds, headers, menus, and more.
• New custom post type and taxonomy features for posting new and different kinds of content (besides posts, pages, etc.).
• A new default theme called Twenty Ten, which shows off all this new functionality. Say bye bye to Kubrick!

Watch the video below for more information:

If you’re upgrading, remember to backup your site. Also remember your themes probably won’t break but if they do, you can at least revert back to your backup and figure out what the problem is.

Have you upgraded to WordPress 3.0? I’d be interested in hearing your experience in the comments.