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.