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Jeffrey Zeldman is joining Automattic’s advisory board

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

Jeffrey Zeldman announced in a tweet this morning that he's joining Automattic's board of advisors. Zeldman is the king of web standards and has been a huge presence in the web community for over 15 years. He's the founder of…

WordPress 3.8 schedule, and how to explain WordPress vs WordPress.com

Brian Krogsgard

November 11, 2013

WordPress News

Bob Dunn put together a few weekend conversations in this summary where Matt Mullenweg notes that WordPress 3.8 will be released on December 12th. Also, there's a nice screenshot in there from Matt's Joomla! conference keynote that explains the relationship…

What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

Brian Krogsgard

October 24, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.7, "Basie", has just been released. It's been named in honor of Count Basie. The WordPress 3.7 development cycle is the quickest turnaround between major versions of WordPress ever. You may not notice a whole lot of sexy new…

Why did Automattic gobble up an iCloud alternative?

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

Business

You should remember from earlier this year that Automattic acquired Simperium, maker of Simplenote. Simplenote is a great app by the way. John Paul Titlow, of FastCompany, interviews Matt Mullenweg and writes about the technology behind Simperium and how their…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We're simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don't think about internationalization of our code…

Automattic to acquire unnamed service

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

BusinessSecurity

Automattic is acquiring a security firm that has yet to be named or officially announced. The acquisition is said to be Automattic's largest yet. Matt Mullenweg spoke to TechWeekEurope about security within WordPress and a bit about this acquisition. Well,…

WordPress.com, 8th most visited website in the world

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.com recently passed Yahoo! in Quantcast's rankings of the world's most trafficked websites. It's now number 8. What I find most interesting though, is that according to Matt Mullenweg this does not even count mapped domains, or sites on WordPress.com's…

The Year Without Pants

Brian Krogsgard

September 16, 2013

BusinessWordPress Community

Scott Berkun's The Year Without Pants is a first person narrative of his time employed at Automattic from August 2010 to May 2012. Berkun entered Automattic as employee number fifty six when the company was replacing its totally flat structure…

The collision of journalism and digital technology

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

WordPress News

Riptide is "an oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the present." It is a collaborative project of interviews and an essay between Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman…

Nginx is taking over the internet, and Automattic helped make it happen

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2013

Hosting

This is a nice backstory from Wired on the rise of Nginx, with a focus on how Automattic got involved in the project when they started using it for WordPress.com. Now, Nginx is powering 15 percent of all websites. I especially…

WordPress job board gets a redesign

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

CareersWordPress News

The jobs.wordpress.net website has received a redesign, bringing it in sync with the branding of most of the other WordPress.org facilities. The website was acquired by Matt Mullenweg at the same time as Weblog Tools Collection. It's mostly unrelated to…

WordPress, forking, and the road to 4.0

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2013

Development

At WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg presented the future of WordPress versions 3.7 and 3.8. I have a specific vision for 3.9 and 4.0 - one that will keep both end users and developers happy. Can we make it happen?

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WP Engine has been working on Torque for a number of months. Their tagline for it, as it turns out, is "The WordPress News Core." Beyond that, they don't particularly say on the site how they plan to frame the…

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

BusinessHosting

It's a question many of us have pondered. Just how much money do these "big" WordPress product companies make? WooThemes, Copyblogger (makers of StudioPress), Gravity Forms, WP Engine, Sucuri, and many more companies are clearly making significant revenues compared to…

On WordPress news sites

Brian Krogsgard

June 13, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

There has been a bit of talk about WordPress news sites recently. WPMU has done a pretty good summary of the recent DradCast podcast episode hosted by WP Tavern's Jeff Chandler. It tells the story of Jeff's journey running the…

WordCamps and business

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2013

Business

WordCamp SF attendees, via Matt You've likely heard a lot about the WordPress economy over the past couple of years. Tens of thousands of people make their living with WordPress. It's likely that many thousands more work at news sites,…

Jeffrey Zeldman is joining Automattic’s advisory board

WordPress 3.8 schedule, and how to explain WordPress vs WordPress.com

What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

Why did Automattic gobble up an iCloud alternative?

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

Automattic to acquire unnamed service

WordPress.com, 8th most visited website in the world

The Year Without Pants

The collision of journalism and digital technology

Nginx is taking over the internet, and Automattic helped make it happen

WordPress job board gets a redesign

WordPress, forking, and the road to 4.0

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

On WordPress news sites

WordCamps and business

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