Every WordPress blogger out there must have already read about the recent news about WordPress.com’s plan to offer a blog hosting service anytime soon. (It’s all over the WP-Admin Dashboard already.) This is the same service SixApart is offering for corporate clients for TypePad. Mena and Ben will surely be getting some pretty fierce upcoming competition here.
I wasn’t really surprised about this development, considering that TypePad has been running the show for years without any very strong competition. I am sure WordPress.com will carve a big chunk of the pie once it is launched.
Ken Yarmosh of Technosight 8 sums it up pretty simply “a completely managed version of the latest stable version of WordPress, domain parking, and on the fly category creation for starters. Then add on the awesome drag-and-drop administration interface, an advanced WYSIWYG editor, and it seems too good to be true. But it gets even better, it’s free!“
Whoah! Free?! WordPress rocks! I just hope it would be free of ads.
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Considering the things the head dev of WordPress has tried doing in the past to get money to support WordPress *cough*viral marketing*cough*, it most likely won’t be free. Money has to come from somewhere, and it’d be better in the long run to have some kind of honest ad supported blog hosting. Then again, others already provide hosted WordPress blogs for free, and some with no ads whatsoever.
As long as WordPress for us is still free and actively maintained, I’m all for it. Go WordPress!
Matt has been on a hot seat lately and I guess it would be really hard to have WordPress.com on an entirely free service model. I suppose it has some big backers supporting it or maybe yet another advertising model.
Every java error and free service out there must have some kind of “catch”. I’d still go for paid hosting & ofcourse WP! :p
wordpress.com is a pr6
wordpress.org is a pr9
They should sell links on their sites to make up for costs
wordpress really rocks. ;)
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Paul: they did that already.
Technically it should be like this:
try {
// offer free service here
// with hidden exceptions of course
} catch {
// charge some money :-)
}
//Sorry, sorry cant resist not to comment when I saw the //Java analogy :-)
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