<![CDATA[Valleywag: WordPress.com]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/valleywag.com.png <![CDATA[Valleywag: WordPress.com]]> http://valleywag.com/tag/wordpress.com http://valleywag.com/tag/wordpress.com <![CDATA[ Matt Mullenweg charms pants off Kara Swisher, copies my hairdo ]]>
AllThingsD's Kara Swisher admits her bias in interviewing Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg: Not only does her site use his blogging software, but she admits to having a "personal mancrush" on the programmer. He is perhaps the first straight guy to receive such treatment from Swisher, who is, provably, a mean lesbian. I think it's the hair: Mullenweg stole the retro-fauxhawk look from yours truly, I believe. Swisher does ask Mullenweg, "How do you make money at this?" But she's too crushed out to point out that Mullenweg already has made money, at least for himself, by selling a chunk of his company to investors. A digest of the interview:

  • 0:40: WordPress.com has 140 million unique visitors a month, generating 600 million to 700 million pageviews.
  • 2:30:
    • Mullenweg is bearish on advertising on social networks: "I like our position because it's around content. It's not around photos, or people trying to connect with each other."
  • 3:30: And yet, he hasn't really thought about how his company's going to make money: "Monetization is something we think about, but I don't think we've had any brilliant ideas."
]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:20:00 PDT Owen Thomas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=384104&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ The Pirate Bay's new blog platform inspired by WordPress.com censorship ]]> peter_sunde_brokep.jpgBayWords is the new blog host from those lovable Swedish outlaws at The Pirate Bay. The blogging platform is built atop open-source WordPress code. Which is a little ironic, since TorrentFreak reports that the project was started after a WordPress.com user who linked to copyrighted material lost his account. As for the new site, almost anything goes. "As long as you don't break any Swedish laws in your blog, we will defend it," says The Pirate Bay's Peter "Brokep" Sunde. Looks I'll be spending the weekend reading up on Sweden's legal code.

]]> Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:40:00 PDT Jackson West http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=380494&view=rss&microfeed=true