twitblogs.com Fall 2008
AllowsTwitter users to write more than 140 characters, or to embed images into their posts, etc. You can user your Twitter login to get in.
Category Archives: Blogging
Twitblogs – blog to Twitter
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Feedburner – for Blog / Podcast
feedburner.com – Chicago, IL 2004 / 2007 Google acquired
This is a great company that is worth mentioning…
FeedBurner is a feed management service launched in February 2004 by co-founders Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski and Matt Strobe.
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Their Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.
It offers advertising services for blogs and podcasts also.
WordPress
San Francisco, CA, Nov 2005, Matt Mullenweg
WordPress.com
WordPress.com provides free weblog hosting (from company Automattic). It opened to November 21, 2005.
It runs WordPress MU, a version of the original software that allows people to create and manage their own weblogs without requiring the time, money and technical knowledge involved in setting up WordPress on an ordinary hosting account. It is financially supported via the use of Google Adsense banners and paid upgrades.
wordpress.org
WordPress is a self-hosted blog publishing system written in PHP. All data is stored in a MySQL database. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
The latest release of WordPress is version 2.6, released on 15 July 2008. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
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Matt Mullenweg – cofounder of WordPress and Automattic
Information taken from crunchbase.com
Matt is the cofounding developer behind the open source WordPress blogging platform and its founding company AutomatticA Houston native, Matt also serves as an adviser to Sphere and WeGame.
Web 2.0: Who, What, Why, How 