Automattic secures $29.5m in funding, WordPress creator happy

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, founded on the success of blogging platform WordPress (which BloggerTalks incidentally uses) by Matt Mullenweg, have raised another $29.5m in funding, with The New York Times opening its wallet. Matt himself have a post up, calling it Act 2 for Automattic, and takes a look in the rear view mirror [...]

Design Vitality awards theme with $1,000 – money well spent?

Money well spent? This is the result of the Design Vitality contest, with the winner raking in a grand, and the runner up getting a Wii or an iPhone. Personally, I think the theme finishing third (getting two year’s of hosting) is the one with the most potential, although the winning theme should be easy [...]

Pownce leaves beta

That’s right, previously invite-only microblogging site Pownce is now available to the public. There are a bunch of new features as well, such as importing friends from other social networks, finding friends of your Pownce friends, and featured powncers. Check it out, an official launch post from the team is still yet to come. You [...]

3 GB upload space on WordPress.com

Good news for WordPress.com bloggers. They’ve upped the upload space from 50 MB to 3 GB, and Matt beats his chest on the official blog, rightly so I guess. No movies for free though, then you need the file upgrade-thingy, which incidentally is boosted to 5 GB.

Best of entrepreneurial interviews

Since I’ve never been afraid to link to other people’s project, no matter how close they are to compete with my own, I point you to entrepreneur interview site HatchThat’s best of 2007 post. Some good reads for sure.