Author: Toni Schneider
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Gravatar ahoy!
News flash: Automattic has acquired Gravatar. Congrats to Tom Werner for building a great product. Gravatar is a great fit for our expanding set of Automattic services and I’m looking forward to working on it.
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Biodiesel in the garage
I am now the proud owner of a biodiesel gas pump in my garage: Two 55 gallon barrels of biodiesel with a handcrank that allows me to fill up my Landcruiser right in my driveway. This came about because the SFBiofuels coop’s biodiesel pump got shut down (due to neighbors complaining), which has made getting…
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Congrats to Maya’s Mom
Maya’s Mom, a startup I got introduced to by Caterina Fake and that True Ventures invested in, has gotten acquired by Babycenter.com (who are owned by Johnson & Johnson). A big congrats to Ann Crady and the great team at Maya’s Mom! It was a pleasure working with them, even though it seems brief. They…
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A nice long summer
Sorry about not posting for a while. It’s been a nice, long, busy summer. I traveled a lot seeing family in Santa Barbara and Switzerland (some snapshots below) and in between got to see the Automattic gang at WordCamp and our team meetup. Seems like I got to enjoy two of the benefits of being…
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WordCamp 2007
Registration for WordCamp 2007 is now open. Matt has put together a really great program this year. I’m very much looking forward to the conference and connecting with WordPress users and contributors.
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Raanan joins Automattic
Raanan Bar Cohen is the latest addition to the Automattic team! He is a super talented business guy who has helped companies like Dow Jones and Time Inc move into the world of blogging and RSS. His experience is a great fit for us as we look for ways to meet the accelerating demand for…
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Lightning
Corel has released a new beta of their WordPerfect Lightning product. Lightning is a lightweight document and image management app that now supports publishing to blogs: Our first supported blog platform is WordPress, and I think it’s a great fit. WordPress’ reputation among serious bloggers is unparalleled, but more importantly, its open SDK and strong…
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One million blogs
Sometime next week, someone will create the one millionth blog on WordPress.com! I hope you’ll join us this Monday to help celebrate this momentous occasion (and as if a million blogs wasn’t enough reason to rejoice, we can also toast the WordPress 2.2 release and the fourth anniversary of the first release of WordPress). Please…
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AllThingsD.com launches (powered by WordPress)
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 site for them on our WordPress.com server infrastructure. The site includes four separate blogs (including…
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Sad statistic
Last night, I went to a small Human Rights Watch event (check them out if you are looking to help out a good cause – they are truly working to make the world a better place). Here’s a saddening statistic that someone mentioned: Apparently there are 12 documented cases of children serving life prison sentences…