Posts Tagged “Automattic”

Automattic Funding and Future

by Kevin on January 23, 2008

News has spread that Automattic, the provider behind the WordPress.org and WordPress.com as well as the Akismet anti-spam plugin has raised approximately $29.5 million dollars in a series B round of financing led by the New York Times, and the (…)

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WordPress Upgrades Storage – The Clear Alternative to Blogger

by Kevin on January 21, 2008

In an attempt to compete directly with Blogger and other free/paid blog services, WordPress.com has upgraded their storage space to 3GB from the previous 50MB (a 60x increase). Matt Mullenweg also notes that it would cost more than $300 to (…)

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Akismet Plugin Downloads – Statistics

by Kevin on December 17, 2007

Most likely if you use the Akismet spam prevention plugin, you upgraded yesterday, as 2,970 downloads were reportedly uploaded to WordPress blogs yesterday. This set the record for the most downloads in the history of Akismet, and it is also (…)

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Akismet Releases New Version

by Kevin on December 17, 2007

    Akismet (Automattic Kismet), the most popular spam prevention plugin for WordPress and more than 20 other systems and platforms, has released a new version today, 2.1.2. Once installed, the new version allows users to filter spam by comment (…)

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