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Monday, 21 November 2005

WordPress.com Now Open

by mike @ 13:17. Filed under

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.

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7 Responses to “WordPress.com Now Open”

Murray @ PlanetThoughtful Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 13:58
Hmmm. I still have the “Invite a friend” functionality available when I log in to my Gmail account.

Just thought it was worth mentioning.

Much warmth,

Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
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November 21st, 2005 at 16:12
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Karan Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 21:58
that’s weird - I’ve still got the invites box. Maybe it’s because I’ve set the language to English (UK)…
mdawaffe Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 23:57
I still have an “Invite a friend” section in Gmail. Is this another US/UK english difference?
John Doe Says:
November 22nd, 2005 at 17:06
G Mail. wuz t’at? sounds cool dude.
mike Says:
November 22nd, 2005 at 22:26
John Doe, see gmail.com.
mike Says:
November 23rd, 2005 at 00:42
Karan, I have tried both US and UK settings and I get no invitations!
Interestingly, the wording on the Gmail help pages about invitations still reads like they are scarce.

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