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April 2nd, 2008

New BuddyPress site launched as part of Automattic

A month ago BuddyPress was acquired by Automattic and today the new BuddyPress website was launched:

Right now BuddyPress is still in development,  but you can download the latest BuddyPress builds through SVN if you’re game.
Is this a game changer for social networks?
If BuddyPress becomes a popular add on for WordPress Multiuser, then I think, as […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

March 4th, 2008

BuddyPress to help Automattic and WordPress go social

WordPress is the bloggers platform of choice and with its array of plugins it can do nearly anything.  The WordPress Multiuser plugin BuddyPress let you turn a standard WPMU install into a powerful roll-your-own social network, now this plugin has been pulled into Automattic.
What I didn’t realize (doh!) was that BuddyPress was developed by […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

January 23rd, 2008

Automattic Nails $29 million in funding! The open-source model has legs

Great, great news this morning that Automattic received an investment, and the Gray Lady herself is one of the investors, of $29.5 million to build their business even more.  I like to see these reasonable amounts of funding.  Sure it’s a lot of money, but it also costs a lot to build a business as […]

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January 20th, 2008

Congrats to all the Crunchies winners, but especially Techmeme, StumbleUpon, Automattic, & Toni Schneider

The Crunchies were given out on Friday and the complete winners list was put up on Saturday.  Congrats, of course, go out to all of the winners, but there are a few winners who I want to give special attention to:
Best bootstrapped startup: Techmeme.Founded and developed solely by Gabe Rivera, Techmeme serves as the front […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments