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New WordPress feature, Possibly Related Posts

By Michelle V. Rafter on May 14, 2008 | Leave a response

If you have a blog on WordPress.com, you may have noticed a new feature called Possibly Related that links posts from other blogs in the Comments section of posts on your blog. The crew at Automattic introduced the feature in late April to add an element of social networking to blogging. At least that’s what [...]

Posted in Blogs, Social Networks, Web 2.0 | Tagged Automattic, blog tools, Matt Mullenweg, Possibly Related, WordPress.com | Leave a response

Go Web, Young Man

By Michelle V. Rafter on January 25, 2008 | 1 Response

Newspapers see the future, and it’s digital. The latest evidence: earlier this week the New York Times Co. and three other investors sank $29.5 million into Automattic, the company that makes WordPress blogging software runs the WordPress.com free blogging Website. (Disclaimer: I use WordPress.com to create and host this blog.) According to a news report, [...]

Posted in Blogs, Freelancing, Media Business, Newspapers, Technology, Web 2.0, Writing | Tagged About.com, Akismet, Automattic, Blogger, Blogging, Blogs, E.W. Scripps, Google, Los Angeles Times, Movable Type, New York Times, newspaper business sections, Newspapers, Orange County Register, Publishing, Publishing 2.0, Russ Stanton, Six Apart, TypePad, Wall Street Journal, WordPress, WordPress.com, World Economic Forum | 1 Response

Go Web, Young Man

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