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- For a native of Houston the big time
- Reuters penCalais Seeks WordPress Plugin
- pen Source Funding Signals CMS Shakeup
- NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas’ News Source
For a native of Houston the big time
Houston Chronicle – Jan 28, 2008
Indeed Mullenweg says he pinches himself “pretty much every day. ” He can hardly believe his good fortune. He is the creator of the wildly popular WordPress a software platform on which blogs run and which he originally developed while living in Houston. He’s also the founder of Automattic the company that runs among other things a hosted blogging service using WordPress. Last year PC World named him one of the 50 most important people on the Web. After turning down a deal from an unnamed entity to buy Automattic for more than $200 million Mullenweg decided to seek investors to grow his fledgling business. That resulted in the $29… ff to San FranciscoMullenweg left Houston in 2004 to work briefly at CNet in San Francisco where he was hired to bring blogging to that venerable tech news site. But he left a rich legacy behind him here. Many of the earliest users of WordPress in Houston have coalesced into a rich vibrant Web 2. 0 development community. Last week many of them gathered at the Houston Technology Center for a conference called Got Social Media? (.
Reuters penCalais Seeks WordPress Plugin
WebProNews – Jan 28, 2008
Semantic data tagging comes to the webThe project has a $5000 bounty offered for the developer who creates a plugin for tagging posts with semantic infrmation. com>Calais project Reuters offered a reward for the developer who creates a plugin or application for WordPress that accomplishes the following:.
pen Source Funding Signals CMS Shakeup
InformationWeek – Jan 28, 2008
” If you don’t believe Powell you might want to ask SAP Ventures Accel Partners and Mayfield Fund as they just wrote a check for $9 million to help Alfresco battle ECM incumbents like IBM and racle. The other interesting one was. If I’m a betting man much of that $30 million infusion (Series B Round) will go to making the platform more appealing to the corporate set.
NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas’ News Source
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – Jan 28, 2008
” Fat Fu’s anonymous blog (fatfu. com ) has a ruthless deconstruction of recent research like the “fat friends” study as well as one of the most-comprehensive lists of links to the fatosphere including online communities fashions and health sites for fat people. The Big Fat Deal blog (bfdblog. com ) suggests 10 ways to be a “body positivity activist” including “Be yourself” “ Understand that a lot of people are hateful morons” and “Don’t be afraid to order the cheesecake. ” Many of the bloggers are women whose writing has a distinctly feminist flavor but there are male fat-acceptance bloggers like Red No.