Archive for November, 2006

We made a baby

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

We made a baby

Well not me but you can bet my boy firend is going to freak out when he reads this post. Congrats to Heather for bringing this bundle of joy into this world.Take a look by clicking on the link.

MU 1.0 and bbPress

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

MU 1.0 and bbPress

The WordPress family has been really starting to grow lately. I wanted to let you guys know about two big releases: WordPress Multi-user 1.0 and bbPress 0.72.

WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. It’s the software that powers WordPress.com, for example. MU has been in heavy development for about a year now, and we’ve finally polished it up to a place where we feel like it’s ready for public consumption. Since setup is a bit more complex than the 5-minute install of regular WordPress, MU is best suited for a more server-savvy audience. You can download it on the WordPress MU site.

Second I wanted to introduce an old friend you are all probably familiar with from our support forums, bbPress. bbPress is forum software with the WordPress touch, and developed by the same folks. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, Akismet spam protection, AJAX interaction, but the team focused the most on creating something fast and light. bbPress can power a forum with hundreds of thousands of posts with just a fraction of the load as WordPress. (If we could re-write WP from scratch, it would be a lot like bbPress.) What is probably most compelling for WordPress users, though, is that bbPress supports complete user and login integration with WP.

bbPress is not quite 1.0 yet, some of you may recognize the 0.72 version number from the early days of WordPress, but if you’re searching for a little something fresh in forum software, try downloading bbPress and giving it a go.

Vox and Joi

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Vox and Joi

Joi Ito writes in his blog

“As many of you already know, Six Apart, which I my company Neoteny is an investor in has been working for awhile to develop Vox. (I’m the Chairman of Six Apart Japan as well.) Vox is still in preview mode, but we’re welcoming and asking friends to sign up and give it a try. It’s free. I’m actually enjoying it a great deal and have been posting most of my stuff on my Vox site these days”

I was wondering what else what in Mr. Itos protfolio, these companies alone will make millions for investors over time, mini Googles I like to call them.