When it comes to balancing creative rights on the internet, companies like Twitter and Pinterest play an important role as middlemen. How are they performing?…
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WordPress shames Janet Jackson for bullying bloggers and issues a new takedown report
Powerful celebrities and companies are bullying some of the millions of bloggers who use the popular WordPress platform with outlandish copyright claims. Wordpress just called attention to some of the worst offenders.…
Read MoreRemember Google’s Wave? Thanks to Sandstorm, it’s easy to start using again
Sandstorm's indie web app platform, which is currently crowdfunding, is picking up ports at an impressive rate. Earlier this week WordPress made an appearance, and now Apache (née Google) Wave has joined the party.…
Read MoreWordPress parent Automattic closes huge funding round that values the company at $1B
Automattic, the parent company of popular blog-hosting and publishing platform WordPress, has raised a funding round of $160 million to help it develop better online and mobile tools for publishing, a round that values the company at over $1 billion…
Read MoreCan a little-known blogger turn his site into a business by selling memberships? Ben Thompson is sure going to try
Technology analyst Ben Thompson has quit his job and is trying to turn his blog into a business by launching a freemium membership model, which gives readers access to extra features and content if they pay a monthly fee…
Read MoreWordPress parent Automattic said to be raising a VC round that values it at $1 billion
Automattic, the San Francisco-based company that is responsible for the WordPress web-publishing and blog-hosting platform — and the associated open-source community —…
Read MoreLongreads content-sharing community acquired by WordPress owner Automattic
Founder Mark Armstrong started Longreads as a Twitter hashtag five years ago and built it into a global community focused on longform writing. The startup said Wednesday that it has been acquired by Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform.…
Read MorePantheon One makes it easier to manage multiple websites
If you have lots of web sites and want to centralized content management, Pantheon One may be worth a look.…
Read MoreWordPress was built to be global scale from the beginning, says Mullenweg
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg says that even when the company was still tiny, it was already thinking about how it could build in the flexibility necessary to function at a global scale.…
Read MoreThe Internet Defense League rallies to Restore the Fourth
Some of the biggest names on the Internet are joining protestors for Restore the Fourth, a protest on Independence Day in response to the PRISM scandal.…
Read MoreAmazon launches “Send to Kindle” button for web publishers and WordPress blogs
Amazon launched a "Send to Kindle" button that publishers can add to their websites. The Washington Post and Time are among the first to sign up. "Send to Kindle" is Amazon's answer to read-it-later services like Pocket and Instapaper.…
Read MoreWhere WordPress is headed: Longform content, curation and maybe even native ads
WordPress is going to curate more content and may focus on longform writing and even native advertising, CEO Matt Mullenweg said in a panel at SXSW Saturday.…
Read MoreTransfluent translates for Unity, WordPress, Zendesk and Weibo
The online translation service is branching out from its traditional social media and apps territory, with major deals bringing it into the gaming, customer services and blogging sectors.…
Read MoreVideo: Matt Mullenweg tells former rival Anil Dash what’s ahead for WordPress
During a Q&A with former rival Anil Dash at paidContent 2012, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg acknowledged the blogging platform's complexities and revealed he has been working on a "radically simplified" WordPress. You can see the full video here.…
Read MoreDo we need WordPress for the enterprise?
The collaboration space is already crowded, but one expert feels there is still a gap in the market for a "WordPress for enterprise," a flexible collaboration platform that allows businesses to tailor their collaboration suite as easily as WordPress allows them to tailor their sites.…
Read MorePublishing is no longer a job or an industry — it’s a button
As author Clay Shirky points out, the simple act of publishing something -- whether it's a book or a news article -- doesn't require an industry any more, just a button. So what do the traditional content-publishing industries do now to justify their continued existence?…
Read MoreGnip and WordPress deepen ties, expand data partnership
Exclusive. Gnip is making it very clear it's not just about Twitter anymore. The company, which provides aggregated API access to a variety of social media streams, has significantly expanded its partnership with Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com.…
Read MoreYou are what you curate: why Pinterest is hawt
Pinterest is one of the hottest startups around these days and represents the latest buzzword in the Valley: curation. Here are some of my thoughts on why Pinterest and other such companies are getting attention and gaining traction with younger Internet users.…
Read MoreMy tech 2012 wishlist for Twitter, Amazon & Instagram
As I look ahead, I hope that over the next few months, some of the technology products that I use the most will make incremental changes that could make life better for the people who use their products - including me.…
Read More12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012
How are people like Sun co-founder Scott McNealy, Paypal co-founder Max Levchin, Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley approaching 2012? We asked 12 of the best-known tech industry leaders to share their New Year's resolutions with us.…
Read MoreWhat’s the right social cocktail for you?
The largest companies in the world are in process of figuring out how they can incorporate public social conversations into their daily business operations. Chris Moody from social media data company Gnip explains why social media for your company is not a one-size-fits-all.…
Read MoreMy 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too
It was ten years ago I started blogging in earnest. In the years since, what started as a e-blotter turned into a startup. What was a one-man operation is now a collective effort of many talented people. Here are some reflections, lessons learned and stats too.…
Read MoreWordPress founder Matt Mullenweg to speak at RoadMap
Matt Mullenweg, who created the Wordpress blogging platform and co-founded a spinoff called Automattic, says he is committed to supporting the open-source movement because he and Wordpress have benefited from it so much. Matt will be speaking about this and other topics at GigaOM's RoadMap conference.…
Read MoreThe competitive prospects of Google+
GigaOM conducted a survey over the Fourth of July weekend of GigaOM readers regarding Google+’s chances for success, its competitive weapons and its likely impact on the competitive social media environment. Here's a snippet of what we discovered about the prospects for Google's latest social venture.…
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