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When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
Matt Mullenweg
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.
From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.
With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.
The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.
People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.
Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.
The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.
I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
I really enjoy computer networking.
With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?
Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.
The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable.
When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.
You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.
You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.
The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.
I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use.
If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.
If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.
I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.
It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.
If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.
Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.
I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.
The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.