Displaying 1 To 7 Of 7 Comments WPDesigner Breathes And Then Dies alexa toolbar says it´s still somewhere around rank 210k … » Posted By tekzt On February 28, 2009 @ 4:47 AM Six Ways In Which WordPress Could Die @Angsuman Chakraborty – There is no need for WordPress to cooperate with commercial WP Developers. The developer would be the one who benefits through it, not wordpress or the wordpress community. They have their own developers who not only develop wordpress but also some of the plugins, which are considered “third party”, cause they are released by the persons and not through automattic. If they had money issues they would cut the wordpress.com-stats plugin for .org users which runs on wordpress.com and would remove pingomatic as a default service (or strip pingomatic itself down to a lesser server load). that would cut some major costs. Automattic doesn´t keep you from developing for wordpress. It´s very accessable for any developer. They just don´t want to host stuff of you if you´re an commercial developer and have link to your commercial site in the foorer. That´s perfectly ok with me, because even if the plugin on their site is free, it´s advertising. Just because its not on the wordpress site doesnt mean you can´t get word about your plugins out there. @jeremyclarke – That´s true, sometimes they forget to listen *coughtinymcecough* » Posted By tekzt On February 13, 2009 @ 12:28 PM bar buzz sounds good to me » Posted By tekzt On February 10, 2009 @ 3:40 PM @ryan: i think pingomatics url is just a redirection and runs on the same servers as wordpress.com.. how come? blog.pingomatic.com actually is a wordpress.com blog. i know, that doesn´t mean anything and could just be for that subdomain, but like i said “i think”, that doesn´t mean i know anything at all lol. Like Jeff already quoted in the post, it shares some folks with automattic and probably they just do not label it as official automattic project because they didn´t want to make it seem like this is to push wordpress, which was probably the intention of this project – to make wordpress blogs more visible to the public – which of course for us is a good thing. I don´t know much about automattic, but i know about marketing. Whatever it is, i believe they just do not want to work with other companies officialy, so they started a new company for that. i think pingomatic is also a big part why wordpress pages already get good SEO rankings and are indexed very fast without doing much about it. Many people use it without even noticing it. just had another idea: could the antitrust agency be an issue when automattic teams up with let´s say technorati? i know it could be in europe, but don´t know about the US. » Posted By tekzt On February 8, 2009 @ 8:30 PM i don´t think matt forgot about it, but it´s just a project that probably doesn´t need that much attention. he mentioned in the blog posts that he worked together with the services like technorati and bloglines and probably he talked to the other guys as well, so the only part on the development side of pingomatic probably is implementing stuff that the services send to him when they´re changing their process. probably that stuff comes already coded from the services, so it could be that “development” is just a copy+paste job on matt´s part. Of course i could be completly wrong with that, but that´s how i would do it hehe. So yeah, the blog made sense when pingomatic was developed and when it still was having troubles, but right now there´s probably no need for it. i also don´t believe that there are actually many people who really visit the site since it´s the standard service already built in in wordpress. i can´t remember how it was in 2006. Was pingomatic also already built in or did you have to go to the site to get your pings out? i didn´t start to use any pinging service until 2007. Today i use pingomatic by default, i´m a lazy guy and if there´s a service that helps me saving time, i´m very thankful for it… even if their blog is updated less frequently than my own :D » Posted By tekzt On February 8, 2009 @ 8:26 AM Anyone Ever Hear Of A Server Drive? very good idea + very good quote » Posted By tekzt On February 8, 2009 @ 8:30 AM Core Plugins? Never Gonna Happen! I´m actually against core plugins. keep the extra functionality to the community. If it´s really a good plugin that is needed badly, someone will pick it up and continue to develop it even if the original author stops development. It already happened many times. WordPress IS an end user orientated platform and you should never underestimate the unknowingness of the end user. Some people just don´t know things that are basics for people taking part in those discussions. If it doesn´t work out of the box like intended, they will stop using it. » Posted By tekzt On February 8, 2009 @ 3:32 PMComments Posted By tekzt
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