Author: Toni Schneider
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Swiss news
Swiss TV station Tele Zueri featured me in a news story about San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. It was quite the out of body experience to be followed around by a video camera for the day, but Stefan Kaufmann (the reporter) got me to feel comfortable and enjoy myself after a little while.…
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Public Profiles For Everyone (via Gravatar Blog)
Gravatar profiles are public! Back in March when we announced Gravatar profiles, your profile page remained private so that only you could access it. Now that you've had a chance to update your information and make sure that only details you want public are there, let's open things up. It's been just over 2 months…
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WordPress mobile usage
WordPress mobile apps have been on a tear. The Android app has passed 100,000 users – and it was released just three and a half months ago. Meanwhile, the Blackberry app is getting close to 100k as well (it just passed 90k users) and the iPhone app will hit 400k users very soon (it was…
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In praise of continuous deployment: The WordPress.com story
The other day we passed product release number 25,000 for WordPress.com. That means we’ve averaged about 16 product releases a day, every day for the last four and a half years! How is this possible and why do we release software in this way? Launching products is one of the hardest things companies do. Most…
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State of web spam – Alex Shiels has writ…
State of web spam – Alex Shiels has written up some interesting spam trends over on the Akismet blog.
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Make sure you check out the VaultPress a…
Make sure you check out the VaultPress announcement. I’m very excited about this service.
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I’m speaking at the Freemium Summit nex…
I’m speaking at the Freemium Summit next week about the secrets of how we make money on WordPress.com. Looks like it’ll be a fun event.
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Great to see the FCC focus on promoting …
Great to see the FCC focus on promoting broadband adoption.
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5 reasons why your company should be distributed
[Update: This post was written a while ago, but the content remains timely and accurate. There are further updates and links at the bottom.] I’ve noticed a new trend in Silicon Valley. More and more startups are beginning life as distributed companies, and investors and partners are starting to accept it as normal. Our company…
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The 2% rule
The more time I spend around web services, the more I see 2% conversion rates show up all over the place. About 2% of people who visit a WordPress.com blog leave a comment. 2% click on “related articles” below a blog post. 2% of Evernote users buy their premium service. Same with 2% of Box.net…
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Automattic anniversary
Last Saturday marked my fourth anniversary as CEO of Automattic. It’s been an amazing time so far. I think 4 years is the longest I’ve ever been with one company. It’s also the length of an undergraduate college education (!) which gave me the idea to make a list of things I’ve learned during the…
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And at this prompt, you could type in an…
And at this prompt, you could type in an entire program, and then type RUN, and it would motherfucking run. dive into mark (via a different Mark)
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One of my first tech jobs was an interns…
One of my first tech jobs was an internship I scored at VPL Research, Jaron Lanier’s virtual reality company, back in 1992 while I was at Stanford. It was very exciting, I got to mess around with million dollar VR simulators and hang out with some really smart programmers. Today I saw that Jaron has…