Increasing competition in blogging services

Toni Schneider quits Yahoo! where he was heading the Yahoo! Developer Network to become the CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com that was formed last fall by Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of WordPress. "Automattic is poised to become a leading provider of blogging services" he writes. I wasn't too far off when I wrote in a few predictions to watch WordPress and others from the Open Source movement jump in the blogging service arena and compete head to head with Six Apart and alike. Another confirmation, and closer from home (Paris!), Olivier Meunier has published the roadmap for DotClear 2 (it's in French, but I will get back to it in the following weeks, as DotClear is really set to become the European challenger in this space).

Leave a comment

Recent Entries

  • Flash and sparkles

    This is exactly the example I give to my clients to teach them why doing their business site in Flash is, in 99.99% of the...

  • Google, buzz off

    I only end up using GMail through the web when I can't use my desktop email client, so I was surprised to be greeted the...

  • WTF?

    Seen in a Safari crash report today: Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 com.apple.WebCore 0x00007fff849031b1 bool WTF::HashTable (*)(WebCore::SharedBuffer*)>, WTF::PairFirstExtractor (*)(WebCore::SharedBuffer*)> >, WebCore::CaseFoldingHash, WTF::PairHashTraits, WTF::HashTraits...

  • The Android Market is a terrible mess

    The Android Market is a terrible mess. Nearly every app I looked at had nothing but spam comments. Literally things like, “Follow me on twitter...

  • Bonne année

    Or Happy New Year as they say out there. :-)...