Thord D. Hedengren

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Tag: Automattic

  • Longreads is thriving

    Longreads is thriving under Automattic. It’ll be interesting to see where this ends. They’re using a member funded model to pay for original stories, with a bonus attached:

    Longreads has raised about $250,000 from “thousands of members” since it added memberships in 2012. The suggested monthly amount is now $5 a month or $50 a year, though readers can choose to donate any amount, and Armstrong said that the company’s gotten some thousand-dollar donations. All of that money now goes to pay authors, and WordPress.com matches every $1 from a reader with an additional $3, which clearly makes it a lot easier for Longreads to do what it wants to do.

  • Matt on Automattic turning ten

    WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg reminiscence about Automattic turning ten:

    We just want to make the web a better place. We’re proud to contribute to what I consider the best open source project in the world, WordPress. We bring it to as wide an audience as possible through hosting it on WordPress.com, and providing services for the ones we don’t host with tools like Jetpack. Through it all, we have fun and experiment with side projects that have become crucial to the ways we work — P2, Cloudup, Simplenote, and dozens more that we tried, failed, learned something from, and tried again.

    A job well done, Matt!

  • Automattic's 16 acquisitions

    Matt Mullenweg’s Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has made 16 acquisitions since 2007, as listed by WP Tavern. While it’s hard to know what those acquisitions actually meant for the company, it looks like a lot of services and talent has disappeared within the larger company. Personally, I miss the Poster app, which could’ve been so great, but there are other opportunities on that list that seem lost. Or not, because obviously I know nothing of the innards of Automattic.

  • The Automattic hack

    A recent hack at Automattic at root level is scary for any dedicated users of their hosted services. Matt writes about it on the wp.com blog. Scary stuff, I’m sure they’re doing their best to secure everything even further.

  • Automattic öppnar WordPress-butik

    Automattic har öppnat WordPress Swag Store, en webbutik där du kan köpa saker med WordPress-loggan, typ. Jag gillar Moleskine-boken mest, föga förvånanade!

  • WordPress 3.1-betan redan ute på wp.com #wpse

    Sin vana trogen har Automattic rullat ut en bleeding edge-version av WordPress på wordpress.com. Är du nyfiken på hur WordPress 3.1 är men vill inte testköra själv så är det bara att köra loss där.

  • WordPress.com eats Windows Live Spaces for breakfast

    I did not see this one coming, but congratulations to the WordPress.com team, and to Spaces users who can finally migrate to a decent platform. Wow, this is huge.

  • Hjälp till att bygga ett bättre P2-tema

    Automattic har släppt ett skönt Twitter-inspirerat tema vid namn P2 (testa gärna). Jag gillar det, men det är inte perfekt, så jag tänkte lösa det problemet framöver. Vad vill du ändra med P2?

  • What would you change in P2?

    Automattic’s collaboration focused theme P2 is great and all, but it’s not perfect. For one the localization is poor, and I’d like it to support decent top navigations, as well as use all these new fancy features we got in WordPress 3.0.

    So here’s the plan. I’ll either build a new theme inspired by P2, or fork the current one to add this functionality. Whichever I feel like, basically – that’s the beauty of open source after all. However, this is your chance to shine.

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  • WordPress trademark is now where it should be

    I’m happy to see that the WordPress trademark now resides with the WordPress Foundation rather than with Automattic. Makes sense, good call Matt & Co.!

  • Hosted blog comments and why I went with Disqus

    I decided to not roll my own comments here on tdh.me, using an outside service rather than the built-in WordPress functionality. This is generally not something I advice since the more outside services you’re relying on, the slower your site will be, not to mention vulnerable to a third party’s uptime and security measures.

    That being said, I’m rolling Disqus on this site, the first public one for me actually.

    I went with a hosted comment solution for 5 main reasons. (more…)