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  • 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.

  • WordPress mobile usage

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    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…

  • Wow

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    Now that’s a WordPress fan!

  • WordPress in the news

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    There’s a nice article about Matt and WordPress in USA Today and news that WordPress.com is one of the fastest growing large web sites in the world (#3 according to TechCrunch’s analysis).

  • WordPress 2.7

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    A big day today for WordPress: The eagerly awaited 2.7 release was officially released this morning and lots of people are downloading it. Congratulations and huge thanks to the hundreds of people who have contributed to this release. It’s a milestone for WordPress with a new user interface and information architecture, and crucial new features…

  • Virtual teams

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    Raanan gave a well received talk about virtual team collaboration at WordCamp Israel:

  • Welcome PollDaddy

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    Polls like the one to the right are now a built-in part of WordPress.com, thanks to Automattic’s acquisition of leading poll and survey platform PollDaddy! Congratulations to the PollDaddy team of Lenny, Eoin, and Jonathan, who have built a great company with lots of users (including many WordPress bloggers) and partners, and they did it…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Crunchies

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    The Crunchies were very fun last night. Congrats to the organizers, thank you for voting for me and for WordPress, and congrats to the Automattic team and WordPress community: Facebook, WordPress major Crunchies winners!

  • Some comments on free software

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    Rob Howard (who runs Telligent), says on his blog: WordPress is made available for free because investors and backers of the business are making the captial contribution to bring the consumer cost to $0. That’s wrong and indicates a misunderstanding of the economic model that underpins a project like WordPress. WordPress is made available for…

  • MTOS and Drupal

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    In the last couple of weeks, there has been significant news from two WordPress competitors. Drupal lead developer Dries Buytaert has raised VC money to start a commercial company called Acquia to support Drupal, and SixApart has released an open source version of their Movable Type software dubbed MTOS. I think both are good developments…

  • WordCamp 2007

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    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.

  • Lightning

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    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…

  • One million blogs

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    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…