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Automattic and Federated Media Launch WordAds For WordPress.com Blogs
For years Automattic’s WordPress.com has allowed bloggers to make money with ads. The best option thus far has been Google AdSense. Now WordPress is saying “you deserve better than AdSense.” Now Automattic has launched a new service called WordAds. There are over 50,000 WordPress-powered blogs launching every day. These blogs will soon be able to place ads on their websites through Automattic’s partnership with Federated Media. [WordPress Blog]
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Hackers Gained Root-Access To WordPress.com Servers
Hackers have gained root-access to several WordPress.com servers this morning. Some of the VIP customers’ source code was accessible by the hackers. WordPress.com VIP customers were alerted a “code red” and passwords/API keys were changed.
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Over 500,000 Windows Live Spaces Blogs Have Been Successfully Migrated To WordPress.com
This past September Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that Windows Live Spaces would be migrated over to WordPress.com. Today they have announced that over 500,000 Windows Live Spaces blogs have been successfully imgrated over to WordPress.com. As part of Microsoft’s partnership with WordPress.com parent company Automattic, Microsoft Messenger Connect can be used by WordPress.com users to share their blog posts with Messenger. [Windows Team Blog]
How To Update WordPress.com Blog Posts Using SMS
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com has added SMS text messaging support for the blog platform (note: this service is only available to U.S. WordPress.com users as of right now). There are free WordPress.com SMS features and there are paid features.
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Windows Live Spaces Now Powered By WordPress.com
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and WordPress.com has announced that Windows Live Space users will now be using the WordPress.com blogging platform. WordPress.com has made the migration easy using a brand a new import. Windows Live Spaces users will have the option to import all posts, comments, and photos to the WordPress.com platform.
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WordPress.com Adds Reblogging and Like Feature
Wordpress.com has introduced two new features to their blog service: a like button and reflagging. The new features can be accessed through a Like menu item in the admin bar at the top of WordPress.com pages.
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Why WordPress.com Went Down
Blog hosting website WordPress.com went offline for about 110 minutes. This caused 10.2 million blogs to go offline and deprived them of receiving about 5.5 million pageviews. The reason why WordPress.com went offline was because of a core router change by a data center. All of the data is safe, but just could not be served. “The entire team was on pins and needles trying to get your blogs back as soon as possible. I hope it will be much longer than four years before we face a problem like this again,” stated WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg. [WP Company Blog]
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Automattic Rolls Out After The Deadline Plugin For All WordPress.com users
Automattic has acquired After The Deadline, a WordPress plugin startup company. After The Deadline designed a solid grammar and spelling plugin for WordPress. Matt Mullenweg, the chief developer of WordPress called up Raphael Mudge, the only After The Deadline employee to find out what it would take to buy out his entire company.
The deal was made this past July and now After The Deadline was made accessible for all WordPress.com users. Automattic has around $30 million in funding and purchased the blo.gs pinging service from Yahoo! this past April. Automattic also bought out PollDaddy in October and Intense Debate in September.
WordPress.com Now Has Real-Time RSS Integrated Through RSSCloud
Blogs that run on WordPress.com now automatically have the RSSCloud feature integrated into them. WordPress.org users can download a plugin from here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rsscloud/.
RSSCloud is a service that adds a cloud feature to RSS feeds. As soon as an author writes a blog post or news story, an update ping is sent to a cloud server. The cloud will determine whether that post is being subscribed to. If someone is subscribing to them, then the RSS aggregator is updated. This all happens within a second. The RSSCloud protocol was made by Dave Winer, the inventor of the original RSS specification.
Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress wrote about the changes on the company blog. “There’s only one reader so far (River2) that supports RSS cloud, but we expect there to be more in the future. We’re also going to be supporting other ways for people to get push notifications (Jabber, email, Weblogs.com pings, SUP, pubsubhubbub, Twitter… who knows what else) so people will be able to find out about and visit your new blog posts as soon as possible, making blogging a more real-time experience. Since RSS Cloud is so easy to add to RSS, it seemed like a good place to start,” wrote Mullenweg
Categories Automattic, Dave Winer, Matt Mullenweg, RSSCloud, Wordpress, Wordpress.com
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Automattic, Parent Company Of WordPress Blog Platform Raises $29.5 Million
Automattic is the parent company of WordPress.org and WordPress.com. WordPress.org is an open source blogging platform and WordPress.com is the blogging community platform. Automattic has officially received $29.5 million in funding from Polaris Venture Partners, True Ventures, Radar Ventures, and the New York Times [source: NYT].
Some WordPress.org competitors include Blogger and TypePad. WordPress.com competitors include Xanga and LiveJournal.  Automattic raised $1.1 million two years ago as well. Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic stated that the funding would go towards building additional services.
The New York Times Company has been using the WordPress platform for their subsidiaries for quite some time. About.com, a New York Times Company subsidiary is based on the WordPress platform. And NYT has more than 50 blogs that are powered by WordPress as well.
WordPress also recently gave their users on WordPress.com a major step-up in terms of storage capacity. WordPress users only had 50MB up until recently, but now they 3GB each. Matt Mullenwag, founder of WordPress hopes that this increase in capacity will encourage their users to prdouce richer media. Users who have paid for 1GB in the past will get 5GB instead of the free 3GB.
The announcement is also confirmed on Matt Mullenwag’s blog.
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