Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg
Matthew Charles "Matt" Mullenwegis an American online social media entrepreneur and web developer living in San Francisco. He is best known for developing the free and open source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 January 1984
CountryUnited States of America
travel
When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
exactly existing fit framework great instead maybe social start terms
I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use.
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
killers different features
You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.
mistake catholic guilty
I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
phones tools digital
WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.
powerful people trying
People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
half traffic search-engine
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.
two wish would-be
If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.
san-francisco work-out factories
130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
past months radical
One of the things I’ve been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface,
internet-access cities ubiquity
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.
team support healthy
The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.
character phones people
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.