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Publish tickets, initial speakers, sponsors

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm super excited to finally be able to say that tickets for Publish 2017 are available. The event, as many of you already know, is in Atlanta, on August 3rd and 4th. That's a Thursday and Friday. Go straight to…

Business in a Box is a…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business in a Box is a new small business eCommerce toolset from Paypal, and they have partnered with WooCommerce and Xero to provide a bundle to those looking to setup eCommerce sites. Michael Steele goes into more detail about it,…

StudioPress relaunched, going all in on a hosted product

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Brian Krogsgard
StudioPress has a brand new look, and is now marketing itself primarily as StudioPress Sites. At a foundational level, StudioPress Sites feels like a mashup of other products under the parent company umbrella, backed by the powerful StudioPress brand. In…

We have more big hosting news,…

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Brian Krogsgard
We have more big hosting news, again from Liquid Web. They've acquired WiredTree, the much beloved VPS service. According to Liquid Web's announcement, WiredTree customers will be migrated to their infrastructure. The post also says Liquid Web has 600 team…

Make WordPress Hosting is the newest…

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPress Hosting is the newest Make WordPress sub site. Mike Schroder writes that the purpose of the site is so, "individuals with hosting experience can collaborate on best practices and tools for the WordPress community’s benefit." The site is…

Yesterday, I analyzed ThemeForest and Envato’s…

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Brian Krogsgard
Yesterday, I analyzed ThemeForest and Envato's new Hosted program for getting hosting alongside your theme. Vova Feldman has a really interesting blog post that's a good companion to what I wrote, which dives into the financial opportunities that still exist…

We have yet another big hosting…

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Brian Krogsgard
We have yet another big hosting acquisition:  United Internet -- owner of 1 & 1 and more -- has acquired Strato for €600 million. Strato did about €125 million in revenue last year. The current rate of consolidation is pretty…

Envato Hosted expands with revenue share for authors

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Brian Krogsgard
Envato has expanded the hosting program they began piloting last December, which I covered at the time. Now it's expanded from two theme shops to twelve, including several of the most popular authors on the platform. Envato Hosted is now…

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

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Brian Krogsgard
I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active…

Publish presentation announcements

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm really excited to finally announce the Post Status Publish presenters. There are twelve awesome folks (plus me) ready to share their knowledge with you. I have already said that I wanted to make Publish feel like the hallway track,…
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