Comments on: Friendster Switches

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:10:00 +0000

Friendster….friendster…oh yeah! They were the ones before MySpace which was the one beofre Facebook right?!

By: rizal

rizal — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:32:43 +0000

yeah , it because WP is the best ! rock on !

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:50:33 +0000

Missing a few things there, need to update it!

By: aman

aman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:44:18 +0000

[off-topic] Matt, why the BuddyPress isn’t listed under your project listing or under the Automattic web?

By: Kirb

Kirb — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:35:33 +0000

did you see searchengineland.com migrated to wordpress as well? I’m not sure what they were using before.

“……..the huge task of first migrating to WordPress and then getting an entire new design established on top of it”

http://searchengineland.com/search-engine-lands-new-look-15930

By: Andrew Anker

Andrew Anker — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:56:22 +0000

> What are the best examples of licensed Typepad these days?

@matt There are plenty. I’ll let you build your future prospect list on your own.

Happy holidays!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:36:31 +0000

Cool good to know. I also know Le Monde was on licensed-Typepad as well, and one of the biggies in Japan. What are the best examples of licensed Typepad these days?

By: ipung

ipung — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:10:47 +0000

I believe Friendster already switched to WordPress MU since august..

When I saw this postlink in my WordPress dashboard, I thought Friendster is going to switch into another platform again.. Thank God they didn’t

By: Andrew Anker

Andrew Anker — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:12:06 +0000

@matt Yes, MLB used to be on TypePad and switched to MT, Friendster switched to WP. And we have plenty of others that are still on TypePad in a licensed format. Two data points doesn’t not make an abandonment.

As you well know, sometimes companies start simple by letting us (or you) host their blog and then with success need more control and thus a self-hosting situation. That was the case with both Friendster and MLB. In once case they wanted to move to MT, in another WP. But for folks starting out and needing an easy solution, we onboard them with TypePad all the time.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:43:39 +0000

I’m either there same-day or months later.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:42:31 +0000

Oh of course Typepad still an active platform with many people on it. But didn’t the codebase used to be licensed out to third-party hosts who ran their own Typepad, so to speak? I recall MLB had an instance as well that they switched to MT.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:53:17 +0000

Good thing. WordPress is the best thing that happened to blogging.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:55:06 +0000

That’s good news! WordPress indeed is the best blogging platform out there right now.

By: Wardell

Wardell — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:19:15 +0000

Good News for WordPress eh?

By: Andrew Anker

Andrew Anker — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:04:31 +0000

Matt… we haven’t abandoned anything and continue to support plenty of “third party” bloggers around the world on TypePad. This was simply a business relationship that no longer made sense for either party and Friendster’s internal development efforts leaned towards PHP.

With love in the holiday season.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:50:59 +0000

Quite a nice xmas gift

By: BoltClock

BoltClock — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:34:24 +0000

Double post, but, Automattic only noticed now? They’ve been migrating blogs to WordPress for months now.

By: BoltClock

BoltClock — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:28:27 +0000

Too bad I don’t use Friendster anymore.

By: Eric Brown

Eric Brown — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:15:27 +0000

Great news…wonder if they’ll be adding buddy press in the near future?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:12:42 +0000

Isn’t that obvious? Well, wordpress for teh win~