WordPress.com is happy to brag about their perfect score from the Electronic Freedom Foundation. As many things that sometimes frustrate me about Automattic, their insistence on this style of transparency is an excellent trait.
WordPress.com has introduced a new API today called WordPress.com Connect. It’s an API to allow websites and applications to offer login capability for WordPress.com users. It’s not surprising Automattic has introduced this feature. After all, they have tons of services that obviously already use something similar to link their WordPress.com, Akismet, PollDaddy, and VaultPress products. In…
The WordPress.com REST API now includes improved support for custom taxonomies. This includes a handful of new endpoints and enhancements to existing endpoints. So you can retrieve a single term or list of terms for a site, create or update and a new term, delete it, etc. This appeared to be a popularly requested feature…
It’s a sad day when a seemingly successful niche news operation shuts down. GigaOm stopped operations last night, due to an inability to pay their creditors. GigaOm was started by Om Malik and Om went full time on the project in 2006, as I discovered from Matt Mullenweg’s blog. Om and Matt are good friends;…
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 with a team-based one. Berkun’s story centers around his experience managing Team Social, which was…
The folks from The Theme Foundry have released a new theme called Collections, which is a post formats centric, Backbone powered WordPress theme. They emailed me to let me know they were wrapping up a Backbone powered theme, and I was intrigued and asked if I could take a closer look. So they showed me…
Automattic has acquired Atavist, a “publishing and story-telling platform” for an undisclosed amount. The Wall Street Journal mentioned in its coverage that Atavist has 200,000 users, but reportedly only a small percentage pay for premium features. Atavist employees will join Automattic, and the Atavist Magazine (which has won several high standing awards) will also be…
