Throwing a Brick

9 Years Ago Today – WordPress 0.70 Released

Roy Scribner — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:14:47 +0000

Hat tip to WordPress co-founder Mike Little, WordPress was released to the world on May 17, 2003.

Automattic Social Strategy for WordPress

Roy Scribner — Sat, 26 May 2012 20:44:03 +0000

I was updating last year’s WordPress in 2015 and last month’s Social Strategy Coming to WordPress posts with some new insights from Matt Mullenweg, when it struck me that I could use a timeline of Automattic’s major social initiatives over the past few years.

April 26, 2012 More Likes in More Places

January 20, 2012 Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place

November 29, 2011 Introducing WordAds

November 7, 2011 Notifications, the Pulse of Your Blog

September 21, 2011 More traffic for your blog with the follow button

July 14, 2011 WordPress.com oEmbed Provider API Now Available

March 9, 2011 Boost your self-hosted WordPress with Jetpack

September 10, 2010 Introducing Subscriptions

August 3, 2010 Like a Post? Well Then, “Like” It!

June 1, 2010 We All Like to Reblog

February 4, 2010 WordPress for BlackBerry 1.0 Released

February 2, 2010 WordPress for Android 1.0 Release

July 22, 2008 WordPress for iPhone Available Now

There has also been a misfire or two along the way, like when Automattic decided to start defaulting to notifying about comment updates, but for the most part these initiatives have been well thought out and progressively timed.

Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress Roadmap

Roy Scribner — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:23:15 +0000

Ironically, I am posting this from my phone while tooling down the HOV lane on Highway 101 (I’m in the passenger seat).

WordPress was first for pure blogging, then became embraced as a CMS (though some people still deny this), is seeing growth and innovation in being used as an application platform (I think we’re about a third of the way through that), and just now starting to embrace social and mobile — the fourth phase of our evolution.

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