Matt, now Ma.tt, and Toni have respectively written “Act Two” and “Automattic fundraising” about us, Automattic, raising a $29.5 million USD round of financing today. Our friend Om has a head start on journalistic coverage with “WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M“.
By “we” in the title, I mean I have absolutely nothing to do with the financial [...]
Category Archives: Automattic
“photomatt: who’s eagleclaw?”
November 8, 2007 – 10:11 am
I had a great big smile yesterday when eagleclaw entered our chat channel. Eagleclaw is Hailin Wu, a new member of the Automattic family.
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WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire
September 21, 2007 – 12:03 pm
Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be vitally important because it’s the person who interacts with our customers most and makes the [...]
A Day Away Is Work That Still Needs Doing
August 8, 2007 – 4:04 pm
When you work for a small company, a day away is work that still needs doing.
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Word
July 17, 2007 – 3:04 pm
Julia and I are in the San Francisco bay area for WordCamp which is WordPress annual (2nd year) real-world main event. I can’t wait!
The speakers are amazing, and the people coming to participate are just as amazing! I have the pleasure of speaking about Getting Involved with WordPress with Mark Jaquith.
This week, will [...]
Petty
June 21, 2007 – 2:47 pm
I have been tripping out lately about the problems of the world, mostly influenced by our American cousins. I am fragile and this “stuff” affects me. I can’t help, but feel that most of what I am most passionate about is petty.
Contributing to free culture and open source takes the edge off, and helps me [...]
Isolate a Problem
May 18, 2007 – 11:14 am
“Person has [environment] A. There is a problem X. Trying to troubleshoot X will be difficult until I can start to change the situation to see what happens to the problem.”
Writes WordPress Support Maven Mark in Please try Firefox . Not only is he the best support person, I have ever worked with, he is [...]
On Open APIs
May 17, 2007 – 9:36 am
“No business development back and forth, no contracts, no friction. They just implemented it and contacted us a couple of days ago to give us a heads up.”
Toni on Lightning. Toni includes a well titled link of self-serve business development to his post “Open Source vs. Open APIs”.
Adam O Caoimh
May 8, 2007 – 2:09 pm
The Automattic family had a recent addition of Donncha’s baby boy Adam O Caoimh.
Julia and I greatly look forward to meeting Adam in person some day.