As per the comments on my last post the WordPress London Meetup will be on Thursday October 4th right after the PHP London meetup. The venue is called The Old Crown and it looks like the perfect spot, it even has wifi. I have to take the DLR from the Docklands into town so I’m planning to be there at 9 PM, which is when the PHP presentations should be finishing up and we can stage a WordPress invasion. If someone could post DLR / Tube instructions to get there from the Excel Center where FOWA is I think a lot of people would appreciate it.
WordCamp Israel
There is a WordCamp Israel being organized. There is an English blog covering the event.
Multipart HTTP
WordPress.com Rising
WordPress.com is now the number #22 site in the US according to Quantcast, just ahead of craigslist.org. Moving up from there is going to be a lot harder as the US uniques get pretty big. Note that the numbers Quantcast uses for its top-list only includes blogs with “wordpress.com” in the URL. To see our aggregate stats which includes blogs with custom domains you have to look at the WordPress network page, which has us at 87 million global uniques in the past 30 days, up from 70 million just over a month ago.
Paris Meetup Today
Sorry for the short notice, but I lost track of time yesterday and we ended staying out pretty late. The Paris meetup today will be small and casual because of the late notice, but I’ll be at Cafe Beaubourg from 6-8pm with Tony Conrad of Sphere. We’ll try to sit in a visible location, I’ll be wearing a dark grey hoodie and jeans, and I’ll probably have my laptop out.
Gallery: 9-30-2007
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Paris and London WordPress Meetups
I’m going to be in Europe next week to speak at the Future of Web Apps in London, and I’ll be spending a few days in Paris beforehand. I’d love to meet up with WordPress-minded folks in both. Let’s do a Paris meetup on Sunday, September 30th and one in London on Tuesday the 2nd or Thursday the 4th. Leave a comment (with your email) if you can make it and we’ll nail down the details in the next day or two.
AirPress
WordPress Plugin Stats
Our official WordPress plugin directory now lists some stats at the top, as of right now there are 1,021 active plugins and they’ve gotten 1,597,994 downloads. Wowza!
Leo Laporte
I missed it at the time, but Leo Laporte has switched to WordPress as his primary blogging platform.
Gallery: 9-26-2007
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San Francisco Upgrade Party
Foundread Public Square
Foundread, a great site for entrepreneurs from the GigaOM crew, has switched to WordPress.com from Public Square. Public Square is a CMS from Cucina Media that most famously powers the information architecture site Boxes and Arrows, which I believe was previously run on Drupal.
Blog Interview
I was interviewed on Blog Interviewer, there’s audio with a transcription.
CNET TV Live
Sorry for the late notice, but I’ll be on CNET TV at 1 PM PST.
Google Gadget Ads
Google introduces Gadget Ads, includes open caching CDN proxy. I wonder how long that’ll last?
Thunderbird is Back
Mozilla’s new focus on Thunderbird, creating a new non-profit organization to develop it and seeding it with 3 million dollars. After the previous uncertainty, this is great news.
Searching for Evil
Did you know Volvo drivers have more wrecks? This great talk by Ross Anderson covers the fascinating intersection between economics and spam. One hour.
Official Kilogram Prototype
Official prototype of kilogram mysteriously losing weight. If I was kept at a chateau in a triple-locked safe I would too.