Monthly Archives: November 2005

WordPress.com Now Open

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I see that Matt has opened up WordPress.com for signups without invites. So you no longer need an invite or a copy of Flock to signup for a WordPress.com blog

The ser­vice has been scal­ing very well since we got the prob­lems from the move worked out.

This is very excit­ing news. I think there will be some great things to come out of this pro­ject. Espe­cially the com­munity aspects.

I also noticed that Google’s Gmail has removed the “invit­a­tion” block from the logged in screens. Though there isn’t a gen­eral “sign up here” notice on their home page. How­ever like using Flock to get into WordPress.com, there has been a non-invitation route in to gmail for a while; you can sign up to Gmail via SMS.

Mike Little Joins The Apress Blog

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I have joined the Apress blog. In case you didn’t know, Apress are a book pub­lisher. They pub­lish “Books for pro­fes­sion­als by pro­fes­sion­als”. As one of the authors of the forth­com­ing book “Build­ing Online Com­munit­ies with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress”, I received an invit­a­tion to join today.
Just in case you didn’t get that, it does mean that there is indeed a WordPress book com­ing! We are hop­ing the book will be out before the end of the year.

Update: Links fixed!