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Can Drupal beat Wordpress?

Can Drupal beat Wordpress?No but Movable Type CanI'm running [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/blog/]LITC[/url] with MT 4.2 on openSUSE 11.1 and mySQL, Perl, FastCGI. The key is that MT is pure Perl. Very safe code compared with PHP.Slightly off-topic, Who do you think dances better? [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/10/funny-unbelievable-mccain-vs-obama-dance-off.html]Obama, McCain, or Palin?[/url]Get out and Vote...

Tags: Scripting languages, OPEN SOURCE, Wordpress, Drupal

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

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

Additional Resources

Wordpress BBQ at Conjunctured Ranch

Now this is real Texas BBQ. In San Francisco, shared work spaces are common, but I was surprised to see one in Texas. The locals here do say that this is like the Silicon Valley of the heartland. ...

Tags: Barbecue, Texas, Wordpress, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-15

Wordpress 2.7 released; jazzy like Coltrane

Matt Mullenweg has come a long way since he worked at CNET developing the earliest versions of his open-source blog management system Wordpress. The 24-year-old lives and breathes Wordpress, so it's no surprise that version 2.7 is the best yet. Not only has the dashboard been completely...

Tags: Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-12-11

Enterprise 2.0: Progress is mixed, but experimentation is cheap

The state of enterprise 2.0 reveals spotty progress and a separation between key technologies. For instance, wikis are in, podcasts are out and blogs are somewhere in between within the corporation. In two Forrester reports here and here, the research firm hits on a few key themes:...

Tags: NewsGator, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, Wiki, RSS, Internet, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Yes, vendors are vital to open source

Fellow ZDNet blogger Dana Blankenhorn asks the question, "Are vendors vital to open source?" No, not at all. Unless you want steady improvements to the software, timely security fixes, ISV and hardware support, and distribution methods that allow users to actually download or receive FOSS on physical media. Then they...

Tags: Vendor, F/OSS, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-23

An Event Apart 2008: Day 1

The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...

Tags: Web, Framework, Web Design, Interfaces, Craftsmanship, D, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-18

BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBook

At Today's WordPress Camp in San Francisco - covered in detail by ZD's Andrew Mager here - Founder Matt Mullenweg discussed impressive growth for WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Page views grew from 1.5 billion to 6.5 billion/month with 120-160 million unique visitors, including a third from heavyweight media...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Blog, Blogging, BuddyPress, Facebook, Internet, Marketing, Network, Oliver Marks, Online Communications, Open Source, Social Networking, Wordpress

Blog posts 2008-08-16

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