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  • Rally Fighter

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    Sarah Stokes from Local Motors brought her brand new Rally Fighter to SxSW, and I got a chance to test drive it: The car looks great, sounds great, gets lots of attention, and is fun to drive. I was slightly disappointed that they switched from a BMW diesel to a Chevy gas engine, but hats…

  • Lift off!

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    Jetpack has launched, a brand new service from Automattic.

  • WP 3.1

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    WordPress 3.1 was released about 36 hours ago. I always like to take a peek at the WordPress download counter when a new release drops. Already there have been 380k downloads, and they are clicking up rapidly at about 200 per minute, or 3 downloads per second!

  • Evolution of blogging

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    I’m quoted in the NY Times today in an article about how blogging is changing. Matt has a great response on his blog.

  • Automattic now reaches half a billion people

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    Last night, we crossed the 500M mark for monthly unique visitors to the Automattic network: The Automattic network consists of WordPress.com, Polldaddy, IntenseDebate, and Gravatar, as tracked by Quantcast (the bump you see in November is when we started tracking Polldaddy, ID, Gravatar, and WordPress.com Stats users in addition to WordPress.com visitors). 500M uniques is…

  • IndyCar at Infineon

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    Last summer the GoDaddy crew treated us to a fun race weekend at Infineon Raceway – I finally got around to uploading some pictures:

  • Toni.org: 2010 in review

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    My WordPress.com stats review for 2010: The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 52,000 times in…

  • Ted Salkin’s Printing Presses

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    Back in September, Eric Drew took us up to Ted Salkin’s place in Healdsburg. Ted’s specialty is to dismantle old machine and printing shops. He gets called in when newspapers move or go out of business and they need someone to take apart and haul off their printing equipment. Over the decades, he has kept…

  • A three generational leap!

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    The final act of my trusty 1G iPhone, to take a picture of its 4G replacement: Thank you Santa Matt for the awesome custom WordPress version!

  • Congrats to Milo

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    Milo, a startup from True’s portfolio, has a very successful sale to Ebay.

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    I found this snapshot the other day – Diane and me, 15 years ago on our wedding day…

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    +1 for keeping the web open and universal.

  • Springfield Castle

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    Snapshots from Springfield Castle in Ireland, scene of the 2010 Polldaddy team meetup: A couple of the original Polldaddies in the wild:

  • Privacy

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    After reading a couple of excellent posts about online identity/privacy by Om Malik and John Battelle, I decided to sign up for Rapleaf to see just what they know and track about me. My reactions: – Their data about my location, jobs, age, etc is accurate – Seeing that someone collects that data about me…

  • Exciting news

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    Microsoft partners with Automattic to make WordPress.com the default blogging platform for Windows Live. WordPress.com news blog. Windows Live news blog. I took this snapshot while waiting to go on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to announce the news:

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    Founders build companies, not VCs, not super-angels. Founders. – Jon Callaghan