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Filed under: Asides | Tags: WordPress (106), award (2), drupal, elgg, packt, press (48) | October 29th, 2007
Best Open Source Social Networking CMS
WordPress Wins Best Open Source Social Networking CMS. “Packt is pleased to reveal that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close category, WordPress came out in front of Elgg and Drupal, who finished joint second.” Yay! ¶
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Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
efrain | October 29th, 2007 @ 6:47 pm |
woohoo! felicidades a Wordpress!
:: efrain
Cody | October 29th, 2007 @ 7:06 pm |
Nice! As a user for more than a year, I have to agree that it’s definitely the best CMS all-around, open source or otherwise.
walker | October 29th, 2007 @ 7:16 pm |
Congratulation!
Being opensource and extensible is really attractive!
Kara | October 29th, 2007 @ 7:47 pm |
Congratulations!
hso | October 29th, 2007 @ 8:07 pm |
The best indeed, there’s no doubt about it. Way to go!!!
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Cyndy | October 29th, 2007 @ 8:37 pm |
Woot! That is very awesome indeed!
Milorad | October 29th, 2007 @ 9:41 pm |
I find the “social networking” part fascinating.
How many CMS’ are designed with social networking in mind, in the first place?
Basically, wordpress’ ping feature was awarded.
Macrike | October 29th, 2007 @ 9:49 pm |
Wow, that’s good news to read. I’m glad I’m using WordPress as my CMS. Let’s just hope it keeps evolving into a better and more powerfull CMS. ^_^
BoltClock | October 29th, 2007 @ 10:09 pm |
Congratulations!
Damien | October 29th, 2007 @ 10:17 pm |
Justice is served.
yosafat | October 29th, 2007 @ 10:38 pm |
congratz matt…
n-blue | October 29th, 2007 @ 10:43 pm |
Cong! at least my favorited and trusted platform.
vangardx | October 29th, 2007 @ 10:49 pm |
hello matt, congrats..another great achievement from the wordpress..
Chuckie | October 29th, 2007 @ 11:42 pm |
Hey! Congratulations, Matt!
More power to Wordpress and to all you guys! Regards to Maya!
Sending you the T-Shirt very very soon by the way. Before Christmas definitely!
Cheers!
GaMerZ | October 30th, 2007 @ 12:07 am |
congrats to WordPress!
chaoskaizer | October 30th, 2007 @ 1:55 am |
woot. Good to hear that, congrats.
Eats Wombats | October 30th, 2007 @ 2:02 am |
Congratulations! What will you do with all that money?
bakkouz | October 30th, 2007 @ 2:10 am |
That is Sweet
marco | October 30th, 2007 @ 2:23 am |
congrats!
David Tan | October 30th, 2007 @ 2:41 am |
congrats! Wordpress deserves every piece of it
Christoph Voigt | October 30th, 2007 @ 2:42 am |
Congratulations!
MegaMuts | October 30th, 2007 @ 2:48 am |
GRATZZZ!
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Pillscape | October 30th, 2007 @ 3:42 am |
Im the user of wordpress.com and blogs on my own domains and im 100% agre with this award!
paolo/pixline | October 30th, 2007 @ 4:29 am |
Yeah! That’s really really good! Now let’s face another round, and make WordPress the Best Open Source All-Rounder CMS
Ben Werdmuller | October 30th, 2007 @ 4:39 am |
Congratulations! We were very pleased to be finalists, and were in very fine company. WordPress is a very accomplished piece of software, and deserves to be recognised.
Vamsi | October 30th, 2007 @ 7:12 am |
Thats very good news for all WordPress Contributers and the community.
Congratulations to all Developers and Contributers.
Daniel | October 30th, 2007 @ 8:55 am |
Congratulations!
pundit | October 30th, 2007 @ 10:37 am |
Could someone provide an example of a Social Networking Site using WordPress as its CMS?
gidibao | October 30th, 2007 @ 10:53 am |
Congrats!!!
MyGoodFinds | October 30th, 2007 @ 11:03 am |
That’s awesome! That’s why I use WordPress! Without Wordpress, I would not have been inspired to blog or make a website at all.
Amit | October 30th, 2007 @ 12:11 pm |
Matt, that was obvious since wordpress is used and promoted by millions of web users and its the lowest buggy script ever made.
Congrats to the wordpress team
Amit
motherduce | October 30th, 2007 @ 1:29 pm |
Congratulations, Matt – that’s great news. Wordpress rocks!
Justin | October 30th, 2007 @ 1:54 pm |
Well done to the wordpress team…the best blogging platform there is!!!!!
Rowan | October 30th, 2007 @ 2:53 pm |
> Could someone provide an example of a Social Networking Site using WordPress as its CMS?
As far as I know there aren’t any.
No disrespect to Wordpress, but “Social Networking CMS” is not a category Wordpress belongs to. I haven’t seen a single social network site built on Wordpress, let alone a successful one.
Eric Marden | October 30th, 2007 @ 2:56 pm |
Could it get any better?
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Pasquale | October 30th, 2007 @ 3:38 pm |
Wordpress 4ever!!!!!!!
Bye (ã'ã'£ã‚ª)
Jeremy Clarke | October 30th, 2007 @ 3:45 pm |
I’m with Pundit, this really does seem pretty suspect. Wordpress.org doesn’t even support avatars without a complicated plugin, and the default “author pages” just show that author’s pages inside the normal loop, they dont’ even clearly label the page as a user’s work. Also, comments aren’t tracked at all in terms of user’s who posted them, and the comment link goes to the user’s website, not their profile page.
It seems like the voting was almost definitely skewed by the fact that Wordpress.COM is a great social networking site, because of the user integration and portal views you’ve added to it. But even WPMU doesn’t have any of that, it just treats everyone as a blog.
I think the award goes to Wordpress.com as a social networking site, but isn’t deserved because the award is for an open source CMS, and wordpress.com isn’t a CMS, it’s a site. If “wordpress” can win this award then why not Facebook, since it’s just as open source (runs on php and Linux), and just as much not a CMS (you can’t download it and take advantage of it’s social networking properties).
Maybe, just maybe, Milorad was right and WP got it for having good Trackback functionality, but that seems so farfetched that I can’t take it seriously. Trackbacks are complicated and most people don’t understand them unless they are pros, so even positing that they are good for ’social networking’ in general is pretty heavy-handed, let alone that WPs implementation is outstanding enough to win an award.
Sue @ TameBay | October 30th, 2007 @ 3:46 pm |
Congratulations Wordpress! It’s very well-deserved.
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Tal Galili | October 30th, 2007 @ 4:48 pm |
Congratulations
modemlooper | October 30th, 2007 @ 5:37 pm |
Social network? thats a stretch for something that can’t even do simple line breaks. a good blogging tool at best. Movable Type rocks them all
John | October 30th, 2007 @ 10:41 pm |
Yawn…
mBu | October 31st, 2007 @ 1:06 am |
Congratz!
Leonid Mamchenkov | October 31st, 2007 @ 1:13 am |
Congratulations! Well deserved.
Sean | October 31st, 2007 @ 1:55 am |
Congratulations Matt and WordPress!
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Jagnnath | October 31st, 2007 @ 10:16 am |
Congrats !!!
long user of wordpress.com moved to wordpress.org
Adam Hevenor | October 31st, 2007 @ 3:06 pm |
Kick ass! How well does Wordpress scale? Anyone out there using this on a very high traffic site?
Dave | October 31st, 2007 @ 6:24 pm |
Since this was a CMS award I can see how the results might have been close (not purely a blogging award). Goes to show what you can do with Wordpress.
Hone | October 31st, 2007 @ 7:49 pm |
Matt are you going to get gravatars into that Opensocial from Google some how?
Gravatars would be a cool place to have a centralized profile. And what would be cool is if you could be like an OpenID where you sign in with Gravatars to all kinds of blog platforms.
Evert Jan | October 31st, 2007 @ 11:56 pm |
Good job guys!
Congrats and keep up the good work!
Shinobi | November 1st, 2007 @ 5:46 am |
Thats very good news for all WordPress Contributers and the community.
Congratulations to all Developers and Contributers.
George Manlangit | November 1st, 2007 @ 11:16 pm |
Wordpress has been by far the easiest content management platform to use. It’s success, I believe, is based on the ease of use, not to mention tons of themes that are available. One should also note that the open source allows for developers to customize the ‘blog’ allowing widgets to be included in Wordpress.
Congratulations.
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Amit Bhatia | November 3rd, 2007 @ 5:45 pm |
Well Deserved! Seeing the future ahead, we need to make it even better more evolutionary to make wordpress a sustainable product for next 5 years. How about adapting to OpenSocial standards?
neekey | November 3rd, 2007 @ 8:24 pm |
Congratulations!
Do the best!
Ross Calloway | November 4th, 2007 @ 7:53 pm |
Must be nice to see your baby grow up to be #1. You and the rest of the team should be proud. A job well done.
Joln | March 12th, 2008 @ 1:24 pm |
SN http://chickspeak.com/
read http://blazenewmedia.com/articles/chickspeak-a-wordpress-mu-based-social-network/