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  • AllThingsD.com launches (powered by WordPress)

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    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…

  • Your blog lives here

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    Barry explains our recent datacenter expansion.

  • Lots of spam blogs on Blogger

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    According to a WebMasterWorld study, 75% of blogs on Google’s Blogger are spam and 68% of all sites on the .info domain are spam as well. If true, that’s kind of depressing. Meanwhile, on WordPress.com we continue to shut down spam blogs as soon as we find them.

  • More VIPs

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    If our WordPress.com VIP hosting program is any indication, enterprise blogging is on an upswing. We’ve been getting a lot of interest in this program from corporate bloggers. Some recent VIPs include multiple blogs from CNN, Xerox and Carnival Cruise Lines. We also recently added famous baseball player Curt Schilling as a VIP blogger and…

  • Digg this

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    Paul Kedrosky points out that WordPress.com has passed Digg on Alexa’s reach charts. Very cool! And Alexa doesn’t even count all of our traffic, only visits to blogs with wordpress.com in their URL (i.e. it doesn’t count WordPress.com blogs like Scobleizer or WebWorkerDaily that use their own domain names).

  • Internet celebs on WordPress

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    We just went down the list of the top 25 internet celebrities according to Forbes and found that an impressive 1/3 of them are using WordPress: #1 celebrity LonelyGirl15, Jeff Jarvis, Amanda Congden, Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Jimmy Wales, Merlin Mann and Om Malik. Congrats!

  • Lots of stats

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    Check it out, we are now publishing lots of WordPress.com stats for anyone who is interested in how many signups, page views, new posts, embeds, etc we’re getting. I’d love to see other blogging services and web sites publish this kind of data (LiveJournal is the only one I know of that has been publishing…

  • KnowNow + WP = enterprise blogging

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    Fortune 500 companies are discovering WordPress. They are figuring out that blogging is a great tool for fostering more open and active collaboration with customers and between employees. This trend was anticipated in several places, including Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book Naked Conversations and a recent Forrester report on enterprise blogging by Charlene Li…

  • Le Monde moves to WordPress

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    Le Monde just relaunched their blogging services. Their several thousand blogs are now powered by WordPress (they used to be on TypePad). Lots of new WordPress blogs get created every day, but this installation is significant for a number of reasons. First off, Le Monde is the best known newspaper in France, they are highly…

  • Calling all WordPress consultants

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    I get several requests per week from people who are looking for help with WordPress related projects. Things like designing a new blog template, developing a custom plugin, or migrating existing blogs over to WordPress. In response, we’ve started to compile a list of professional WordPress consultants who offer these types of services.

  • ScobleShow

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    Robert Scoble came by recently to interview me for the ScobleShow. We talk about WordPress, blogging, spam, Akismet, MySpace, mash ups, virtual companies, all kinds of good and geeky stuff. The original idea was for Robert to drop by for lunch. When he showed up with his video gear instead, I knew I was in…

  • WordPress anniversary

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    WordPress.com turns 1 – yay! I really liked Lorelle’s post about it.

  • WordCamp 2006 wrapup

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    WordCamp was a great day of meeting WordPress people and learning new things for me. It’s very fun to work on a project that has such engaged and enthusiastic users and contributors. Though I spent a lot of the day setting up and organizing things, I did listen in on various discussions and took away the…

  • WordPress user conference

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    Matt announced that we’re going to host a WordPress user conference on Aug 5th. Here’s the site for it. The whole Automattic team will be together in person for the first time during the week leading up to and at the conference. Come join us, should be a lot of fun!