... in his favor anytime I write about this): I have ZERO problem with him making money from Automattic. What I have a problem with is the conflict between him arbitrarily controlling who WordPress.org likes or ... on how open source they are, when negative decisions are often made against competitors to Automattic and by extension WordPress.com. You can’t have it both ways: either you’re an ...

... that Ozzie unveiled, however, wasn’t technological. It was actually a customer: Automattic, the hot software and blog hosting company that ... for WordPress and the millions of blogs its customers have online. Automattic is known as a strong advocate of Open Source technology. ... to tap the cloud — and nail down customers like Automattic — yielding both big revenues and a return to ...

... at a Microsoft conference was unusual. Are you moving WordPress.com to Azure? No. WordPress.com, which is Automattic’s hosted blogging service, is going to stay on its existing infrastructure. ... Network launched a new blog Oddly Specific on Azure, which some people confused with Automattic. Do you use Azure at all? Yes, we’ve been testing out their blob storage as an alternative to ...

... of open source, while the Windows platform is proprietary. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg took the stage ... WordPress and the millions of blogs its customers have online. Automattic is known as a strong advocate of Open Source technology. ... Azure. Are you moving WordPress.com to Azure? No. WordPress.com, which is Automattic’s hosted blogging service, is going to stay on its existing ...

... for all involved. GlotPress, the new open source GPL project from Automattic, that is now the engine behind WordPress.com translations. Here are the most important changes: Filters for everything Pagination &# ... Much easier to add new languages You might want to read more about this new translation platform from Automattic here. GlotPress ©2009 MyTestBox.com :: web software reviews, news, ...

... sans HTML reading capabilities (seriously, does anyone still use those?). I’m still wrapping my head around the fact that Automattic has only added its very own e-mail subscription feature now, on ... publication by e-mail like Posterous and Tumblr have been doing for quite a while? Update: as Automattic’s Ranaan points out in comments, that was already possible, my bad. Looking forward ...

Last week at the Automattic Lounge in San Francisco, technology, gadgetry and startup publication VentureBeat held its first ever DiscoveryBeat where established startups focused on passing along knowledge of their success onto other up-and-coming startups. According to their website, DiscoveryBeat is “an event focused on the ’secret recipe’ for application discovery & the ...

... layer on tech, independent of the west coast? BTW, it's not all a rotten mess on the west coast. I have become a huge admirer of Matt Mullenweg and Automattic in the last year (not that I wasn't already smitten before). They did two beautifully disrupting things in 2009 all while growing their freemium cash-generating business -- they implemented rssCloud and the Twitter API. And the ...

... the other developments that have come out of the conference so far: Seesmic, the popular Twitter client, is building a Windows client that uses Silverlight. Matt Mullenweg Mullenwag, CEO of Automattic (Disclaimer: Automattic, maker of WordPress, is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga ...

... Can Has Cheezburger) to show off what they created on the Azure platform. Mullenwegg appeared on stage to show that his company, Automattic, is fully supporting Azure. Automattic is the company behind Wordpress. His presence drove home how Azure will support PHP, MySQL and other open-source tools in additon to .NET. That's a ...

... his opening keynote, Ozzie also announced that a small number of customers will go into production today, including Automattic, Inc., the maker of WordPress, which is now live on Azure. Matt Mullenweg, founder of  Automattic, Inc., took the stage to demonstrate MySQL, PHP, and Apache support on Windows Azure, as well as to  ...

... involved. Enter GlotPress, the new open source GPL project from Automattic, that is now the engine behind WordPress.com translations. Here are the most important changes: Filters for everything, ... A few notes: Translations were generally approved by one of us at Automattic, but we can only validate so much as we don’t speak all the languages (we try, though!), so that we now support “ ...

... that a few companies would take Azure into production starting today. With that as introduction, Ozzie announced that Automattic, creator of open-source WordPress blogging system, would be one of those companies. From a marketing perspective, it was a stunning announcement, since Automattic uses open-source tools like Apache and MySQL. The message: Azure isn't just ...

... Self or Other The biggest major difference between the two WordPresses is that the dot com version is hosted for you for free on Automattic’s servers, while the dot org version is software you install on your own web server. Automattic is the parent company of WordPress. Hosting with WordPress.com means you save a lot of money, because it’ ...

Okay, fine! Out of frustrated boredom, I’ve switched my theme (AGAIN) to P2 by Automattic. After all, bloggers here at WordPress.com owe our thanks to the folks at Automattic for providing us different themes to choose from, right? With the `P2 Options`, I chose the Polka Dots as the background image and selected to `hide the