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Envato getting into video app space

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
In a bit of a surprise move, Envato is getting into the video mobile app space. With a clever video app that nicely highlights their VideoHive market, the new Envato Video app allows people to create simple marketing videos, straight…

State of the Word, 2015

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Brian Krogsgard
PlanetWordPress News
Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.

Extra bits and bobs around the new WordPress.com Calypso project

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Brian Krogsgard

Phew, it's been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don't work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com…

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…

Weekend edition

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Friday was a bit slow so I figured I'd wait for a weekend edition. We're going to pack it all into one Note. Jetpack had two vulnerabilities: one in the contact form (technically explained by Sucuri) and one limited to…

Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on Product Hunt. There's not a ton you haven't seen, but apparently there's a new WordPress mobile app that's still in "internal" beta. I wonder if it's using the new REST API? I hope it's…

Open source has reach, but no influence

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Brian Krogsgard

Steve Burge has an interesting post on his personal site on why he thinks open source has no reach, but no influence. Despite the widespread open source, we’re entering a world of closed platforms: Today’s iOS9 launch shows what incredible…

Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
I'm a pretty big fan of Dave Pell's NextDraft newsletter (subscribe and read my interview with him and Andrew Norcross!). It's a mix of tech and current events, and today he talked about the bubble in tech. I'll show the quote…

Speed as a feature

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Brian Krogsgard

Performance optimization can be a hard sell inside an organization that has a lot of needs and not a lot of resources. GQ recently has page loads upwards of 7 seconds and bounce rates 10-20% higher on mobile than desktop,…

A generic WordPress site management mobile app

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Brian Krogsgard

Scott Bolinger has released a boilerplate app that uses Angular and the Ionic Framework to create a generic WordPress site management mobile app. It's available on Github for those that want to contribute or fork it for your own purposes.…

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignMake WordPress
WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.

Automattic’s Mesh photo app is now ready for iPhone and web

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Brian Krogsgard

Automattic has been working on Mesh for a while. I first posted about it in March, around when they rolled out an early alpha for employees and created the landing page. Now it's on the iPhone and available as a web…
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