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
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The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
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WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.
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Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.
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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
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The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.
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I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.
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I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.
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I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
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The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
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Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
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The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
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Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
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Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.
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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.