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  • Bandcamp launches

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    Forget MySpace Music, this is the future of music on the web. From Bandcamp’s FAQ: We’re a publishing platform for bands, or, anthropomorphically/arthropodically-speaking, your fifth, fully geeked-out Beatle — the one who keeps your very own website humming and lets you get back to making great music and building your fan base. Here’s a review…

  • toni.org

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    I’ve got a shiny new domain and name for my blog: toni.org. I recently got the domain and like it because it’s short and I find it amusing to call myself an org 🙂

  • A few bits

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    There are 3 million active WordPress.org blogs (!) This is quite a bit higher than the 500k-1 million we had estimated in the past (the ability to track the exact number is relatively new – since WordPress 2.3). If we add that number to the over 4 million blogs we host for people on WordPress.com,…

  • WordCamp presentation

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    I hope everyone enjoyed WordCamp as much as I did last Saturday (seems like Harry McCracken did). At the camp, I gave a short presentation on the state of WordPress consulting. As WordPress continues to grow (doubling in downloads, pageviews, etc every few months), so does demand for paid design and development services around WordPress…

  • Schneider family vacation – gadget edition

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    Our family went on a great 10,000 mile road trip this summer. We really tried to keep a lid on the number of bring-along gadgets, but ended up hauling over a dozen of them around the country: Plus the camera I used to take the above picture: After joking about our gadget collection to Om,…

  • Dash GPS mini review

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    I’ve driven several thousands of miles across the US in the last 4 weeks, much of it aided by a Dash GPS device. Overall, I’m quite happy with it. It’s certainly made our road trip less stressful. The pros: It’s web connected, the killer feature for me has been to be able to send addresses…

  • From the archives…

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    I was moving my home office around and found this old picture: That’s me setting up our Virtual Reality demo at a WinHEC conference (I’m guessing 1994). I remember the show because later that day Bill Gates came by and I gave him the demo 🙂 The setup was designed to show off our 3D…

  • Data portability

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    As the debate on data portability rages, I’m learning some interesting things: 1. Marc Canter is painting a fence in his backyard with an open data mural. I love that. What a great reflection of his personality and passion and of Silicon Valley as a place. There’s something cool about the collision of the abstract…

  • Simplicity

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    Interesting article about voluntary simplicity.

  • Famous

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    Mark is famous in Muncie.

  • My first GPS

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    Following my tradition of being a late gadget adopter, I’m about to purchase my first GPS device (for our cross country drive this summer). I’m thinking of getting a Dash Express. It’s getting the thumbs up from Raanan and the Dash people have a WP blog – two big pluses.

  • Back on WP

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    Nice to have Marcus back in the fold 🙂

  • Bandcamp

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    It’s so good to see Ethan and Shawn back in action with their new venture Bandcamp. We worked together at Oddpost, and I’m excited to help out at Bandcamp via True Ventures. Here’s more on the Bandcamp team. Update: Om writes about the partial Oddpost reunion

  • Related posts

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    We launched an interesting new feature yesterday that shows related content below blog posts on WordPress.com. It’s powered by Sphere and offers additional navigation options to blog readers and free content promotion across our network of 3 million blogs to WordPress.com bloggers. Josh from Sphere describes it well: This is really cool for WordPress because…

  • Twitter changes?

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    I got a noticeable increase of “Twitter followers” in the last few weeks. This is amusing (I have a single tweet from over a year ago on my Twitter account, not much to follow there) and it also made me wonder what’s changed. It could be due to recent improvements that make it easier to…

  • Mexico pictures

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    We spent spring break in Mexico – a good excuse to try out our new photo gallery feature: