The News Review:
- Automattic Doesn’t Sell ut For $200 Million
- Two More Challenges To Microsoft ffice: Glide And ThinkFree
- Heckman’s adrenaline flows at Zazzle
- Robillo: The new media
Automattic Doesn’t Sell ut For $200 Million
WebProNews – Oct 30, 2007
Automattic may be holding out for more money from other parties or counting on its own technology to make $200 million look like a paltry sum. Fans of Automattic and WordPress feel this was the right decision though. Arrington’s article has 42 comments at the moment and many of them include words like “great” “rocks” and “awesome.
Two More Challenges To Microsoft ffice: Glide And ThinkFree
InformationWeek – Oct 30, 2007
As the names suggest you can use Quick Edit to make minor changes to your document but if you are writing a document from scratch or need access to more advanced formatting and editing functions you need to use Power Edit. ThinkFree designed the QuickEditor with AJAX to make it load faster and be used for smaller editing jobs while the Power Editor is programmed in Java for more advanced functionality but in testing I found it hard to discern between the two. ThinkFree offers a nifty blog posting feature which is designed to work with major blog platforms such as Typepad WordPress and Blogger. You simply enter your user name and password and select how you want to display your ThinkFree content — as embedded text or as an icon the user clicks to open. When I tested this feature with my Typepad blog it worked without a hitch. While ThinkFree needs to upgrade the size of documents you can upload it provides a familiar environment and deals fairly well with legacy documents.
Heckman’s adrenaline flows at Zazzle
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 30, 2007
(And for that matter one that was located far away from his family. )But after analyzing “thousands” of companies at Fox Interactive Media Heckman said the prospects at Zazzle were just too bright. (f all the companies he looked at Zazzle rose to the top though WordPress also was one of his favorites. ) “I couldn’t help myself” said Heckman who has been commuting to the Bay Area each week since he took on the full-time executive position in mid-September. But I think I have one more big push in me. I probably haven’t felt this excited since 1999″ he says.
Robillo: The new media
sunstar.com.ph – Oct 30, 2007
In fact they are a good example why it’s called “new media. ” Up until several years ago having your own website was costly and often required technical skills. Today powerful and user-friendly blogging platforms (such as WordPress. com and Blogger) are freely available to anyone who cares to publish online. Not only has this resulted in an explosion of content (Technorati estimates that there are currently more than 75 million blogs) but also in the perceptible weakening of the reach of traditional media. Blogs and the other manifestations of new media (e.