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- Prologue = Twitter meets Basecamp
- Automattic, the company behind Wordpress.com, have released a pretty interesting new product called Prologue. Essentially a re-skinning of Wordpress (the open-source blog software), Prologue is Twitter-esque in its micro-blogging interface and functionality, but also brings to the surface the collaborative potential of such a platform by taking advantage of Wordpress...
- Tags: Wordpress, Twitter, Automattic, Prologue, RSS, Smb/Sme, Blogging, Internet, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
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- Automattic does Twitter for business
- Late this afternoon, Automattic, the folk behind Wordpress released a new theme called Prologue under the GPL that replicates Twitter's look and feel with much of what Twitter already does but with threading via comments. Why it hasn't been done before is a mystery to me...
- Tags: Wordpress, Twitter, RSS, Content Management, Firewalls, Manufacturing, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Open source business model reaching tipping point
- Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity, becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors. Everyone could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as the poster child for open source but few other "pure" open source...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., F/OSS, Open Source, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- The Crunchies: And the winners are...
- Last night the San Francisco Web 2.0 crowd filled the high society Herbst Theatre for the Crunchies, a people's choice award program hosted by my friends from TechCrunch, GigaOm, Venture Beat and ReadWriteWeb. You can watch a replay of the event here, courtesy of Mogulus. The...
- Tags: Start-up, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- Commercial the dominant word in open source
- According to Bill Snyder at Infoworld, the word commercial is an epithet in open source. (From Discovery.com via Matt Asay. In fact nearly all open source development has a commercial aim to it: You can sell support for your software, as Red Hat does....
- Tags: Open Source, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-01
- Wordpress all grown up, wins best CMS
- Wordpress, which I had previously considered "just" a blogging engine, has been named the best open source Content Management System for social networking, beating Drupal and Elgg. (Picture from PhotoMatt.) The Judges commented on "WordPress's ease of configuration, professional approach, usability and enthusiastic community," awarding the project...
- Tags: Drupal, Wordpress, Content Management System, Content Management, Blogging, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Software, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- What's a Pligg worth?
- Pligg, an open source Digg clone, has put itself on the market.For a minimum bid of $25,000 on Sedo.Com, you and your friends or business partners can get the domain name, the Web site, and admin access to the Sourceforge address where the software is located.Pligg is an open source CMS...
- Tags: Open Source, Content Management System, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Spam and Matt Mullenweg's mother
- WordPress wizard explains AkismetNearly everything about WordPress and its related apps is open source. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg explains to Webware Editor Rafe Needleman why his anti-spam app is not open source. Mullenweg also shares thoughts about making money in the blogosphere.
- Tags: Spam, Matt Mullenweg
- Videos 2007-05-15
- WordPress wizard meets the press
- CNET interviews Matt Mullenweg, blogosphere enablerCNET's Webware editor Rafe Needleman interviewed Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and co-creator of WordPress. WordPress software is widely used by bloggers from corporate giants to individuals across the globe. In this conversation, Mullenweg talked about the future of WordPress, the global growth of blogging...
- Tags: Blogging, Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg
- Videos 2007-05-15
- WordPress is the clear leader in blog platforms
- WordPress is the clear leader in blog platformsNo doubt about itMarc -To be sure, the ballot box may be a bit stuffed, but the fact that WordPress leads the way is no surprise.As with most successful applications, WP has a very loyal/productive core developer community. It's also amazingly easy...
- Tags: Blogging, leader, Wordpress, blog
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Sun's startup program has a false start
- I went to a press event this week where Sun executives talked about making a frontal assault on Red Hats with Solaris 10. Sun is spinning up new services for life cycle management for its operating system in the Web tier, as well as OS migration programs and new...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Sun, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- BloggerCon: Bloggers and money
- John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at the Harvard Law School led a discussion about how to making money through blogging. Here is his lead in to the topic:If you are a blogger, how do you go about making some money from your work? One obvious answer is the classic...
- Tags: blogger, blogging, blog
- Blog posts 2006-06-24
- Sphere prepping to sort out the blogosphere
- With more than 35 million blogs and over 50,000 posts per hour, the need for really good blogosphere search tools is even more critical. Technorati, IceRocket, Google and Yahoo, among others, are plowing the blog search ground. They are now trying to bring more intelligent filtering to the blogosphere, allowing...
- Tags: Sphere
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Running a business on Web-based software
- One premise of Enterprise Web 2.0 is that Web-based software is beginning to credibly encroach on many solution areas that traditional software previously addressed. According to proponents, this maturing method of online software delivery provides more usability, convenience, and value. The flexibility, mobility, and...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-04-14
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