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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 -- 2 comments

March 3rd, 2008

Canadian companies in the Webware 100

Checking out the list of the Webware 100 Finalist list I noticed several familiar names…
ConceptShareProductivity
CoverItLivePublishing & Photography
Dabble DBProductivity
FlickrPublishing & Photography
FlockBrowsing
MobivoxCommunication
StumbleUponSocial
WordPressPublishing & Photography
Source: All the Webware 100 finalists in one place | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

Okay I know that Flickr, Flock, StumbleUpon, and WordPress aren’t Canadian per se, but Flickr and SU were […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

January 28th, 2008

WordPress Prologue Theme could brings what’s missing to Twitter-Groups

Marshall Kirkpatrick and I were chatting tonight and he mentioned the new WP theme called “Prologue” that has some very Twitter-like features.  We were also both musing how we were sitting chatting at DEMO while other folks were blogging it.  Of course if you can’t be first–be smarter (I think Marshall might beat me in […]

By Tris Hussey -- 4 comments

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 […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

January 21st, 2008

Defensio supports OpenID, upgrades the plugin, and keeps helping us keep our blogs spam free

I got the tip on Friday that my favourite anti-spam plugin for WP was getting a major update… they announced it yesterday/today (Heri got the jump on me)
Big day for Defensio! Why? Because we’re rolling out a boatload of new functionality: Source: Defensio, the blog » Blog Archive » Defensio Does OpenID
The big news is […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

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