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• WordPress and Comment Spam

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Akismet, Automattic, Comment Spam, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Plagiarism, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogs, Wordpress

  know of, Akismet, is made by Automattic, the operators of WordPress.com. It is a generous gift to the community and it comes at what must be great expense to Automattic since it works by letting their servers filter the millions of comments that get submitted. However, it is not perfect, by Automattic’s own admission, and it does not stop

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• How Grey Is Your Valley: Making Money From Open Source

  Published: August 22, 2007, 8:16 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Automattic, Wordpress

  Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg has spoken out against a number of open source projects for profiteering from their code. The two examples Mullenweg cite are the open source forum platform Vanilla, who recently started including links in their code as a means to cover server and administration costs, and Pligg, who is currently on the market.

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• Announcements: Apple Event: Yay, We Didn't Crash

  Published: September 5, 2007, 7:39 pm

  Tags: Announcements, Automattic

  We got help from friends at Automattic, and despite all the clicking you refresh-happy readers did, the liveblog stayed up and fast the whole show. Pretty cool. Thanks for reading, even though we crashed in the past, and I can assure you, things are only going to get better going forward. And now, the adrenaline has worn off, and it's time to

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• Automattic Acquires Gravatar

  Published: October 17, 2007, 10:22 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Automattic

  Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet, has acquired blog avatar provider Gravatar. Gravatar offers a “globally recognized avatar,” a 80 80 pixel avatar image that follows users from weblog to weblog, appearing beside their name when they comment on gravatar enabled sites. Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg wrote on

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• Automattic Has Bought Gravatar

  Published: October 17, 2007, 10:06 pm

  Tags: Cool, Info, Gravatar, Automattic, Bought, Acquires, Features, Benefits, Bring, Profile

  that Gravatar is sold and Automattic acquires Gravatar.I do not know how much Automattic bought is but the most important thing is now Gravatar is under Automattic.There is features after this and this will be more benefits to their user. They are transferred the Rails application and most of the avatar serving to WordPress.com infrastructure

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• Is Matt Mullenweg getting Harde? [Geek Love]

  Published: October 26, 2007, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Automattic, Conferences, Geek Love, Heather Harde, Matt Mullenweg, Techcrunch, The Lobby, Top, Wordpress

  When David Hornik pitched VCs and entrepreneurs on his tropical funconference, The Lobby, part of the sell was that the whole affair was to be off the record. Ha! Good one, David. Turns out what happens in Hawaii only stays there long enough to launch itself toward our inbox. Take for example, what struck some attendees as a budding romance

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• Google Phone Details, OpenSocial Launches, No $200 Million Wordpress Deal, Zillow Launches Direct Ads & PlentyofFish.com $1 Billion?

  Published: November 4, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Aol, Api, Business, Eric Olson, Google, Iphone, Opensocial, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Washington Dc, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Weekly Tidbits, Automattic, Phone, Plentyoffish Com, Reelproperties, Wordpress, Zillow

  Valley to be successful. Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition OfferAutomattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, has rejected a $200 million acquisition offer, say multiple sources. Plentyoffish: 1-Man Company May Be Worth $1BillionMarkus Frind is the

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• Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table

  Published: November 13, 2007, 7:57 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Automattic, Wordpress

  of sense when we heard that Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, turned down a $200 million buyout offer. But apparently the investors weren’t ready to cash in their chips yet, and made CEO Toni Schneider and founder Matt Mullenweg a counter offer they

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• Donncha's Wednesday Links

  Published: November 22, 2007, 7:02 pm

  Tags: Lorelle, Donncha S Links, Donncha S, Lorelle, Holidays, Star Wars, Irishblogs, Thanksgiving, Wordpress, Thanks, Thanksgiving, Thank You, Automattic, Irishblogs, Links

  and GPLed projects Automattic has worked on. I’ll be looking at the secure admin plugin later. Should be useful for WordPress MU installs. Lorelle reports on a new form of spamming and copyright theft called spinning. There are pay-for online services out there that generate nonsense content that search engines think is English,

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• Gravatars- Gimmick Or Gimmie Gimmie ?

  Published: November 23, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Internet, Avatar, Blog, Gravatar, Identity, Openid, Privacy, Wordpress, Confirmable, Centralized, Treatise, Internet, Read, Akismet, Automattic, Plugins

  now; this is a service of Automattic, the people who bring us Wordpress and Akismet spam protection. The basic idea is that you go to their site, register, upload an image, and then any Gravatar enabled website will allow you to comment without registering. They give you an identity (and avatar image) that easily follows you wherever you go,

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• Movable Type Finally Goes Open-Source

  Published: December 12, 2007, 11:03 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Automattic, Six Apart

  Six Apart’s Typepad or Automattic’s hosted version of Wordpress or Google’s Blogger). Six Apart’s Anil Dash, who notes the company’s commitment to openness in general, gives the low-down on how Movable Type took the open-source route. Movable Type Open Source (MTOS) is based on Movable Type 4.0. Dash notes:

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• 100,000 Strong And Growing

  Published: December 18, 2007, 12:02 pm

  Tags: Internet, Security, Akismet, Automattic, Comment, Referral, Spam, Splog, Trackback, 000, 100, Attracted, Admin, Panel, Grabbed

  like the good folks at Automattic (they make Akismet) who allow us all to continue to function in its gnarly face.

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• BEYOND SYBIL: Portable Identity in ....2009?

  Published: January 29, 2008, 9:24 pm

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory And Conversational Content, Innovation, Akismet, Automattic, Bbpress, Clickability, Facebook, Gmail, Gravatar, Jonathan Abrams, Linked In, Micropersuasion, Myspace, New York Times, Pluck, Second Life, Socializr, Steve Rubel, Topix

  announcement that Automattic has gotten a $29.5 million funding bump from the New York Times and others.  Around that announcement Automattic talked about where it might go -- extending its #1 personal blogging Wordpress platform farther out into the social world. That would build on anti-spam (Akismet), forums (BBPress) and

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• Going Directly At Your Competitor

  Published: March 11, 2008, 4:51 pm

  Tags: Marketing, Anil Dash, Automattic, Matt Mullenweg, Six Apart, Wordpress

  Both Six Apart and Automattic have been pretty civil towards one another and while everyone knows they are competitors you would be hard pressed to determine that from their marketing activities, in other words they tend to ignore one another. In re-reading Dash’s post it is clear that there is no bloody knife on the floor, in

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• Time for New Blood in Newspaper Boardrooms: A Slate

  Published: April 14, 2008, 12:27 am

  Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, New York Times, Tribune, Candy Girl, Alberto Ibarguen, Arianna Huffington, Automattic, Caroline Little, Clear Channel Execs, Craig Newmark, Craigslist, Diablo Cody, Eliot Spitzer, Gordon Crovitz, Huffington Post, Ira Glass, Jeff Skol

  Matt Mullenweg: Founder of Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, and someone who understands Pro/Am journalism from the Am side. Stephen Colbert: His brilliant send-up is based on a keen understanding of the foibles of modern news media. A board seat would be highly entertaining for all -- and challenge him to help journalists get it right

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