Category Archives: WordPress

AllThingsD.com launches (powered by WordPress)

Posted on April 26, 2007 by

Allthingsd.com, a great looking new site by famous Walt Street Journal journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg launched today. We’re particularly excited about this project because they chose WordPress MU for their publishing platform and we are VIP hosting the … Continue reading →

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Your blog lives here

Posted on April 16, 2007 by

Barry explains our recent datacenter expansion.

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Lots of spam blogs on Blogger

Posted on April 9, 2007 by

According to a WebMasterWorld study, 75% of blogs on Google’s Blogger are spam and 68% of all sites on the .info domain are spam as well. If true, that’s kind of depressing. Meanwhile, on WordPress.com we continue to shut down … Continue reading →

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More VIPs

Posted on March 19, 2007 by

If our WordPress.com VIP hosting program is any indication, enterprise blogging is on an upswing. We’ve been getting a lot of interest in this program from corporate bloggers. Some recent VIPs include multiple blogs from CNN, Xerox and Carnival Cruise … Continue reading →

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Digg this

Posted on February 10, 2007 by

Paul Kedrosky points out that WordPress.com has passed Digg on Alexa’s reach charts. Very cool! And Alexa doesn’t even count all of our traffic, only visits to blogs with wordpress.com in their URL (i.e. it doesn’t count WordPress.com blogs like … Continue reading →

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Internet celebs on WordPress

Posted on January 25, 2007 by

We just went down the list of the top 25 internet celebrities according to Forbes and found that an impressive 1/3 of them are using WordPress: #1 celebrity LonelyGirl15, Jeff Jarvis, Amanda Congden, Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Jimmy Wales, Merlin … Continue reading →

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Lots of stats

Posted on December 7, 2006 by

Check it out, we are now publishing lots of WordPress.com stats for anyone who is interested in how many signups, page views, new posts, embeds, etc we’re getting. I’d love to see other blogging services and web sites publish this … Continue reading →

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KnowNow + WP = enterprise blogging

Posted on November 20, 2006 by

Fortune 500 companies are discovering WordPress. They are figuring out that blogging is a great tool for fostering more open and active collaboration with customers and between employees. This trend was anticipated in several places, including Robert Scoble and Shel … Continue reading →

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