If you’re running a website using the popular Wordpress blogging platform and you’re a big fan of that little silicon valley company “Google,” there are several plugins you can install on your blog that will allow you do do everything from track your blogs visitors with Google Analytics, to embedding Google... Read More »

WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has called foul today while dodging issues on the ongoing conflict of interest between his involvement at Automattic and WordPress. Several sites, including this one , published stories today suggesting that WordPress.com was moving to Microsoft’s Azure... Read More »

Automattic, the company behind WordPress and self-proclaimed nazis when it comes to enforcing the strictest interpretation of open source on others, have announced that they’re moving WordPress.com to Microsoft’s Azure cloud hosting. At the Microsoft (MSFT) Professional Developers Conference on Tuesday,... Read More »

Since 2003, an open source, Internet-oriented software package has done what is exceedingly rare within that community:  becoming not only immensely popular and wildly loved, but also profitable.  Matt Mullenweg has managed to turn what began as a fork of an aging content management system (CMS) into a... Read More »

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has once again highlighted the gross conflict of interest between his commercial interests and involvement in WordPress.org by wishing that WordPress development team WPMU would go out of business. WPMU, run by Edublogs founder James Farmer, offers a range of free and paid... Read More »