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Wordpress: Going after Ning.com?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I’m still technically on vacation in Florida as I type this, but it’s raining outside and I can’t help but post something on the news that Automattic — the parent company of Wordpress — has acquired Buddypress, as Wordpress founder Matt ... Continue reading »

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  • Matt

    1 year ago

    We're not going to start a social network to compete with Facebook any more than I would start a blog network to compete with Om. We're a technology company, we make platforms. That does put us tangentially in the same space as Ning, but I think our markets are different and I love the stuff that the Ning guys are doing, and have been for years.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the comment, Matt. Maybe I didn't phrase it properly -- I
    didn't mean that Wordpress was going to build something like Facebook
    or even something like Ning, but that Wordpress MU with enhancements
    could become a platform for others to do pretty much the same kinds of
    things that they can do with Facebook and Ning. Would you agree with
    that?


    On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Disqus
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  • rod / techwatching.com

    1 year ago

    Its funny: Ning always lacked the spark that would light a fire in my mind - it never seemed to have a focus that would provide a call to action to drive usage. Of course, its an infrastructure provider, but to me anyway, the concept of social network infrastructure is a little to "big" for mainstream adoption.

    Wordpress, however, provides a simple-to-understand focal point (blogging) around which the social networking component can revolve. Wordpress blogs provide a gateway into the wider social networking offering - just the kind of conceptual bridge to enable it to take off. So -- good luck to them!
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  • Internet Marketing Blog

    10 months ago

    Awesome, its great seeing the transition that Wordpress has gone through. Thanks for this info.
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