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One of the announcements that came out of the TechStars event today was that Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress, has acquired the hosted blog-comment service Intense Debate for an undisclosed amount. You can read Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg’s thoughts about it, as well as those of Automattic CEO Toni Schneider and Intense Debate co-founder [...]
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Maybe it’s the reverse of spring cleaning, but I’ve been feeling a yen for a new blog theme, and I finally took the plunge. I looked around at a bunch of different Wordpress designs, and saw many that I liked, but in the end I went with the excellent Thesis theme from Chris Pearson. I [...]
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I’m still technically on vacation in Florida as I type this, but it’s raining outside and I can’t help but post something on the news that Automattic — the parent company of Wordpress — has acquired Buddypress, as Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg describes on his blog. It’s not so much that this is a huge [...]
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A Twitter post (fittingly enough) caught my eye and sent me to a Wordpress post in which newly-enriched founder Matt Mullenweg announced a Twitter-style group blog theme for Wordpress called Prologue. Although I’m sure some will see this as Automattic going after Twitter, I see it more as a tribute to the power of the [...]
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As my friend Om Malik is reporting — and as founder Matt Mullenweg has confirmed on his blog — the company behind Wordpress has landed $29-million in financing, including an investment from none other than the New York Times. This sounds like a great deal for an equally great company, one whose products I not [...]
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