Automattic.com is no longer a placeholder, it now has a bit more info about the team behind WordPress.com and Akismet. This is what I’ve been working on since I left CNET. The site is still just a shell though, a lot more tidying up to do there. Your mileage may vary. (Should we call it Beta?) This week is pretty jam-packed with announcements, so stay tuned. 🙂
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*Gazes into crystal ball*
I predict good things for this bunch!
Resist the beta tag; please!
Lookin’ good 🙂
Hmm… I like the overall design, but I think you should pick a different background image for each of the “About”, “Services” and “Projects” blocks when you hover…
World domination seems a likely possibility for you young Mr Mullenweg.
I really like the domain name (after I figured it out). The style is clean yet funky.
Here’s hoping you start making barrel-loads of money and become a bitchy snob like Mena (cos I wanna see you swear and pout on a podium).
Start? I thought that’s why he quit CNET… 🙂
[…] WordPress guru Matt Mullenweg has announced the launch of new company Automattic, the holding company for projects such as WordPress.com, bbPress and Askimet (the payware WP blog spam plugin). […]
[…] El incansable fundador de WordPress, Ping-o-Matic, Akismet y WordPress.com entre otros, ha aprovechado el tiempo libre que le dejó su salida de CNET para realizar una versión beta de la página web de Automattic. […]
[…] Matt Mullenweg anunció hace unas horas la creación de Automattic una empresa que actuará como “paraguas” para proyectos como WordPress, WordPress.com, Akismet y bbPress; en paralelo también se anuncia un acuerdo con Yahoo! los cuales darán soporte e instalación automatizada de WordPress en su servicio de hosting para empresas pequeñas y medianas [Six Apart anunció algo muy similar la semana pasada]. […]
[…] Photo Matt » Automattic Beta For some reason this reminds me of Microserfs. Good luck Matt! by Black Rim Glasses | posted in running Trackback URL | Comment RSS Feed Tag at del.icio.us | Incoming links […]
[…] Matt Mullenweg anunció hace unas horas la creación de Automattic una empresa que actuará como “paraguas” para proyectos como WordPress, WordPress.com, Akismet y bbPress; en paralelo también se anuncia un acuerdo con Yahoo! los cuales darán soporte e instalación automatizada de WordPress en su servicio de hosting para empresas pequeñas y medianas [Six Apart anunció algo muy similar la semana pasada]. […]
Does this mean that WordPress MU will become for-profit software?
MU is still open source.
Swell 😀
[…] Yesterday WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg announced the launch of Automattic, an umbrella company for all of the various WordPress projects, including: the WordPress open source blog tool, the hosted version of WordPress: wordpress.com, the comment spam plug-in Akismet and the forum script bbPress. WordPress developers Ryan Boren, Donncha O Caoimh and Andy Skelton will be working with Matt at Automattic. Matt had recently left his job at CNET to work on WordPress full-time. Automattic Inc. is a bootstrapped startup from a handful of people passionate about making the web a better place. So far we’re best known for our work on WordPress and other projects but we have a lot of other interesting things in the pipeline as well. We are strong believers in Open Source and the vast majority of our work is available under licenses like the GPL. We are not seeking funding. tags: wordpress, opensource, automattic – posted by Scott Beale on Wednesday, December 21st, 2005 Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL […]
The site looks weird on Opera 8.5.
[…] Matt is going on full Automattic December 31, 2005 I got hints of this a while ago, about the time Six Apart made it’s deal with Yahoo, so I knew that WP would be the next big announcement (Jeremy Z confirms this) for Yahoo. Hand in hand with this is the announcement of Automattic . As described below: It is now official. Today, he has launched a new company, called Automattic, a bootsrapped operation (no, the company is not looking for venture capital) founded by a handful of folks (with a heavy Texas contingent) to manage WordPress, WordPress.com and Akismet (a service to help block blog spam). For now, Matt is working out of his San Francisco apartment. SiliconBeat This is excellent. I think this kind of business model is a truly good thing. We have a great, open-source, community-drive piece of software (WP), which has spawned several ventures that will bring in revenue. I certainly wish Matt the best. Technorati Tags : WordPress, Automattic […]
[…] Big week for my good buddy Matty Mullenweg:Automattic, Matt’s WordPress startup, has launchedNew stats system for WordPress.com is comingYahoo will be bundling WordPress with Yahoo Hosting WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate available […]
[…] Inc., founded by Matt Mullenweg, is the driving force behind WordPress.com and Akismet (the spam enforcer sitting at the club doors […]