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Read the Prologue, Looking to Twitter to Continue the Dialogue

March 31, 2008 – 6:04 pm

Everyday it seems I get an email saying that someone is following me on Twitter. I’ve resisted using any of Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, and Facebook status tools… much.
Now, I’m taking another look. Why? Because of the WordPress Prologue Theme.

By Lloyd | Posted in Collaborating | Also tagged Facebook, Jaiku, Joseph Scott, Matt Mullenweg, Matt Thomas, Pownce, Twitter, WordPress Prologue Theme, WordPress Themes | Comments (9)

I’m Biased, But Try Movable Type and Drupal

March 13, 2008 – 9:29 am

Anil Dash has written an article titled “A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide” on the official movabletype.com blog. It is full of misdirection, and, thankfully, overall it hasn’t been well received. What excites me is it has sparked some excellent discussions, and it’s a great launching point for more conversations.
I whole heartily recommend you try [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide, Anil Dash, Bias, Blogging Software, Boris Mann, Byrne Reese, Collaboration, Darren Hoyt, Don Dodge, Expression Engine, Jeff Jones, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Sippey, Movable Type, Open Source, Raincity Studios, Shelley Powers, Six Apart, WordPress, WordPress 2.5 | Comments (9)

WordPress Google Summer of Code 2

March 7, 2008 – 3:29 pm

The Google Summer of Code is here again. I submitted our WordPress application today. Last year was awesome, and I think this year will be even way better!

By Lloyd | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Chris DiBona, Google Summer of Code, gsoc, GSoC2008, Jacob Santos, Leslie Hawthorn, Matt Mullenweg, Mentors, Open Source, Ronald Heft Jr, Students, WordPress, WordPress Partcipants | Comments (3)

Matt Thomas Put Under the Press, WordPress 2.5 That Is

February 28, 2008 – 6:25 pm

Matt Thomas, our brilliant web designer on team Automattic, has been very busy working on WordPress 2.5 .

By Lloyd | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Design, Matt Thomas, Web Design, Web Designer, WordPress 2.5, WordPress.com, WordPress.com Themes, WordPress.org | Comments (4)

Matt Mullenweg Keynoting at Northern Voice!

February 9, 2008 – 11:19 am

My boss, the Ma.tt in Matt is keynoting Northern Voice in Vancouver, Saturday February 23th! The title of his talk is “Blogging & Social Media: Where do we go from here?”

By Lloyd | Posted in Blogging | Also tagged Bloggers, Blogging, Darren Barefoot, Matt Mullenweg, Northern Voice, Northern Voice 2008, Social Media, Tickets, Travis Smith, vancouver, WordPress, WordPress.com | Comments (3)

Dollars, Forex, Stocks, Gambling

January 25, 2008 – 12:26 pm

The US dollar is down again since yesterday relative to the Canadian dollar. I hope this is a temporary pause before it continues its “correction” from the painful-for-me long time lows. I don’t know why I let myself continue to be surprised that investing is just a more sophisticated and dignified form of gambling.

By Lloyd | Posted in Consuming | Also tagged California, Canadian dollar, Carlos Garcia, Daniel Bouton, Flock, Foreign exchange, FOREX, Gambling, Jerome Kerviel, Marc Andreessen, Rogue Trader, SocGen, Societe Generale, Stocks, US dollar | Comments (5)

We Raised $29.5 Million!

January 22, 2008 – 11:02 pm

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 [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in Automattic | Also tagged 38 Studios, Barry Abrahamson, Blog Talk Radio, Bloggers, Blogging, closed funding round, CNN, Curt Schilling, Fox, Gawker Media Gizmodo Live, Giga omni, I Can Has Cheezburger, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Adams, NY Times, Om Malik, open source participants, People, Raanan Bar-Cohen, series b, startup funding, Team Automattic, Time, Toni Schneider, WordPress, WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Work | Comments (5)

WordPress 2.3 Heroes

October 30, 2007 – 2:32 pm

September 24, 2007 we released WordPress 2.3, and a little over a month later, this past Friday, we released WordPress 2.3.1.
Yesterday , we, WordPress won Best Open Source Social Networking CMS.
Who are we?

By Lloyd | Posted in Automattic, WordPress | Also tagged blog engine, blog software, Blogging, Blogging Software, collaborating, Community, Open Source, participating, personal publishing, product development, publishing, Software Development, WordPress, WordPress 2.3, WordPress 2.3.1, Wordpress Release | Comments (5)

Todd Cochrane Doesn’t Like MT4’s Podcasting Support, and What That Really Means For WordPress

October 26, 2007 – 1:52 pm

Todd Cochrane who wrote the book on podcasting, Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide, wrote a harsh post about Movable Type 4 not living up to its announced podcasting support claims. The article begins:
From today forward I will no longer recommend Movable Type as a viable new media blogging / podcasting platform. I will recommend Wordpress [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in WordPress | Also tagged blog engine, blog software, Blogging, collaborating, Community, Movable Type, mt4, Open Source, parcipating, personal publishing, podcast, podcasting, podpress, publishing, Six Apart, Software Development, software support, technical support, WordPress | Comments (1)

WordPress Google Summer of Code Students!

April 13, 2007 – 3:28 pm

Ten students are being paid $4500 USD each to working on WordPress this summer!

By Lloyd | Posted in Open Source, WordPress | Also tagged Andrew Nelson, Andy Skelton, Bernardo Santos, Brian Layman, Celeste Lyn Paul, Corey Shaffer, Dio Hulse, Google Summer of Code, Google Summer of Code 2007, gsoc, GSoC2007, Keith Bowes, Leslie Hawthorn, Luc Bizeul, Matthias Bauer, Michael Adams, Mike Grouchy, Nikolay Bachiyski, Open Source, Peter Westwood, Robert Deaton, Ronald Heft Jr | Comments (10)

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