Andy Peatling, who developed a WordPress MU-based social network and then released the code as BuddyPress has just joined Automattic, where they seem to have big plans for it. I’d been predicting something like this since Automattic acquired Gravatar:
It’s clear that the future is social. Connections are key. WordPress MU is a platform which has [...]

Posted March 5, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: acquisition, automattic, BuddyPress, innovative uses of WordPress, open source, powered by WordPress, social networks, wordpress. 2 Comments.

Matt pointed out that Automattic has purchased Gravatar, the globally recognizable avatar service. Om speaks of the economics and Matt’s cagy, but it’s hard not to see the possibility of creating a larger identity solution around this. WordPress’ market penetration is huge, a service that connects those nearly two million blogs could offer real value, [...]

Posted October 19, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: acquisition, automattic, blog aggregation, gravitar, identity, identity management. 3 Comments.

Nial Kennedy threw down some of the first coverage of Yahoo!’s acquisition of del.icio.us last week.
Del.icio.us will most likely be integrated with existing Yahoo! Search property My Web. My Web allows Yahoo! members to tag search results for discovery through a defined social network (Y!360) or all Yahoo! users. Yahoo! will use del.icio.us bookmarks to [...]

Posted December 13, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: acquisition, buy, buyout, delicious, purchase, yahoo. 14 Comments.