Originally posted on When I Have Time by Sara Rosso:
I’ve been lucky to have great girlfriends in my life, many of whom have been in relationships now for a decade or more, or several relationships across?several decades. They’re married, single, divorced, single mothers, married with children, married never wanting children, living with their partners,…
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Celebrating 10 Years of WordPress.com & Automattic
Originally posted on The WordPress.com Blog:
This year marks the 10th birthday of WordPress.com and our parent company, Automattic. We are proud to have served this community of millions: from writers, photographers, artists, and small and large publishers, to business owners and entrepreneurs. A quick bit of history: WordPress itself started as an open…
Freedom of Speech at WordPress.com
The folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) publish reports evaluating the privacy practices of various internet companies. WordPress.com received a perfect 5 on 5 score in their annual Who Has Your Back report as well as a perfect 5 on 5 score on the Intellectual Property Who Has Your Back report. We also note that some services have gone above and beyond the evaluation […]
Designing for Conversion: Pocket Guide out for sale today
Almost two years ago Five Simple Steps signed me up to write a pocket guide about conversion rate optimisation. Today it went out on sale at the Five Simple Steps book store as an e-book. It’s a short read (like most FSS Pocket Guides) and I’d love to hear what you think if you buy a copy.
Nice article about Jetpack and how the team works.
WP Tavern interviewed some of my colleagues while we were in London last month.
Turning experts into beginners
That’s what happens when a redesign of something is done for the sake of a redesign without real user value being created or user problems being solved. That seems to be what has happened at Optimizely today with the launch of their new “Homepage” – i.e. the page that lists all your running or paused experiments. […]
Freedom is dead. Long live freedom.
Seth Godin today writes about Black Friday and freedom of choice. I’ve always hated this “holiday”. Coming as it does a day after Thanksgiving it seems to me to embody everything that is diametrically opposed to the spirit of Thanksgiving: greed, wastefulness, and unthinking herd-like behavior.
Love blogging? Look behind the curtain.
Originally posted on NaptimeWriting:
I attended and spoke at WordCamp San Francisco this year, and the experience, community, content, and implications blew my mind. Holy moly, did I ever. I attended the technical sessions and understood, genuinely, 20% of what I heard in the weekend’s presentations. Okay, maybe 15%. I don’t know the acronyms, I…
Jetpack 3.2: Speed Improvements and a Centralized Posting Experience
Jetpack 3.2: Speed Improvements and a Centralized Posting Experience.
Red Gate refines its focus
I was glad to read yesterday that Red Gate has announced a full focus on “Database Lifecycle Management.” Before I joined Automattic, I worked at Red Gate for a good few years and in the last couple of years I was there the company experimented a lot with different business models and products in the face […]
