Scobleizer » wordpress http://scobleizer.com Exploring the 2010 Web Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:03:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Happy sixth birthday Wordpress! http://scobleizer.com/2009/01/24/happy-sixth-birthday-wordpress/ http://scobleizer.com/2009/01/24/happy-sixth-birthday-wordpress/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:59:07 +0000 http://scobleizer.com/?p=5355 Six years ago Wordpress was born, according to Matt Mullenweg who founded and runs the company that makes it, Automattic. My blog here is hosted on Wordpress.com and I couldn’t be happier. I can’t wait to see what Matt does in the next six years. He has a few ideas, as he told me recently in an interview I did with him.

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Enough said. If you feel I didn’t quite cover the topic enough, leave a URL here to your post about why it rocks.

]]> http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/12/wordpress-27/feed/ 24 The future of the blog with Matt Mullenweg http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/02/the-future-of-the-blog-with-matt-mullenweg/ http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/02/the-future-of-the-blog-with-matt-mullenweg/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:33:29 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4989 Matt Mullenweg is the guy who runs Automattic, which makes Wordpress and hosts this blog. Since they are about to come out with version 2.7, I wanted to have a conversation with Matt and pick his brain about the future of the blog. It’s long, but this is one of my favorite interviews, hope you enjoy it too.

Part I. 21 minutes.
Part II. 17 minutes.

]]> http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/02/the-future-of-the-blog-with-matt-mullenweg/feed/ 0 Help, I’m clueless about Web Service scalability http://scobleizer.com/2008/10/05/help-im-clueless-about-web-service-scalability/ http://scobleizer.com/2008/10/05/help-im-clueless-about-web-service-scalability/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:42:09 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4748 I’m really freaked out. I have one of the biggest interviews of my life coming up and I’m way under qualified to host it.

It’s on Thursday and it’s about Scalability and Performance of Web Services.

Look at who will be on. Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company behind Wordpress (and behind this blog). Paul Bucheit, one of the founders of FriendFeed and the creator of Gmail (he’s also the guy who gave Google the “don’t be evil” admonishion). Nat Brown, CTO of iLike, which got six million users on Facebook in about 10 days.

All three have faced huge scalability problems head on. All three are developers and architects who actually have built systems that have built great reputations online.

I’m totally out of my league and as I do more and more research on the topic I realize just how out of my league I am.

But, one good thing about doing stuff online is that:

1. I can admit I’m over my head and get help from you.
2. I just need to know enough to be dangerous to get a conversation going between these three guys.
3. I’m not the only interviewer here. You will take over and fill in the pothole in my own knowledge (we’ll get you involved via Skype).

It’s free. It’s open to you.

So, since I’m clueless about the topic, what would you ask these guys about how to build scalable and performant Web services, especially given that tomorrow’s services are probably going to be glued together from a variety of services?

Oh, and thanks to Rackspace for sponsoring this webinar (we’re filming it at the excellent Revision 3 studios in San Francisco).

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