As you might have noticed this blog is powered by WordPress. As too are many other tech blogs, namely, Techcrunch, Mashable and Smashing Magazine. In fact, it is estimated that WordPress powers 8% of the worlds websites including many Fortune 500 companies such as Honda, Ford, WSJ, Nokia, and Samsung.
So just what is WordPress anyway? Wordpress is essentially web software that you can use to create a website or a blog using PHP & MySQL without actually knowing any PHP or MySQL! It is both simple to use and free, or open source. Crucially, it is built and developed by hundreds of volunteers. These factors combined have seen WordPress become the most popular hosted blogging and CMS platform in the world, a position which was cemented in 2010 when Microsoft began to switch it’s 30m Windows Live blogs over to WordPress. All pretty impressive you might say, so how did WordPress come to be such a powerhouse. Predictably, it was founded by a guy called Matt Mullenweg back in 2003, at the tender age of just 19. Since then, Mullenweg has been named as the 16th most important person on the web, led several rounds of VC funding, and now presides over Automattic, the premium hosting arm of WordPress.com, a profitable company of some 40 people. I won’t go into too much detail on his bio, I’ll leave that to the ever capable Wikipedia. Continue reading →
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