Comments on: Google Blog Platform

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:45:26 +0000

Wasn't WordPress.com. Guaranteed.

By: Lindsey M

Lindsey M — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:15:01 +0000

i used javascript code on my wordpress.com blog and it seems like it worked?or could have been firefox extention parsing it…

By: Blog Bloke

Blog Bloke — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:49:19 +0000

After being a Blogger user for many years I can honestly say that I get more traffic on WordPress now, probably thanks to SEO plugins. But I found WordPress very SEO friendly right out of the box. I also get much more spam on WordPress than I ever did on Blogger. No contest.Google buy out WordPress? God forbid! That would be a big mistake.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:11:38 +0000

P2: The business aspect is Automattic's business of running WP.com, not the business side of blogging. Cause if you're a business, you either go with the Pro Services, or you use WP.org.P4: Irrelevant. Google can pay the commercial license and run with it. Also, I believe the Akismet PLUGIN is OS, while the service (obviously) is not.C: Why not use Blogger? Cause the code's legacy code, they could port all blogger blogs in a weekend, and have a new hosted version of Blogger up in months, with every feature every Blogger user has ever wanted.I'm not saying I buy the argument, but claiming Aaron's logic is flawed, while having flawed logic yourself is pretty ironical (and, yes, before you anally correct me using a not-real word, the use of ironical instead of ironic was irony in and of itself).

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:12:23 +0000

I'll see if I can thread it in Disqus. You should get a Disqus account, btw.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:08:16 +0000

This comment was in response to “Jeremy”s.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:55:09 +0000

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:14:55 +0000

Your logic is wrong.P1: WP is OSP2: Business in BloggingP3: WXR is easyP4: Akismet is OSP5: A large community for WPC: port blogger to WP_MU... P1 is true and valid. P2 can be true but not in this context. Wordpress.com does NOT allow users to place ads on their blogs. So is the business in blogging in WP the OS platform in P1 or Wordpress.com the closed source hosted version?P3: True, but still not a standard and little/no documentation.P4: False, Akismet is not open source. P5: True for WP but not WP.com has limitations and you cannot have your own plugins, themes, etc. Now your conclusion is cool, like edublogs.com took WP_Mu and made a hosting service but would it not be easier for Google to just listen to their customers and the market and make changes to their system?!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:06:10 +0000

No, I'm not getting my products mixed up. I'm quite familiar with WordPress.Open source does not mean free.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:31:38 +0000

I think you are getting your products confused throughout your post. WordPress is free and open-source, WordPress.com is “free” closed source and cost money to do small changes. Automattic really should support Atompub to transfer data around because it is a/the standard not WXR, the undocumented wordpress unstandard. Lastly Akismet is far from open source and it cost hundreds of dollars if you site is popular. You may be thinking of Typepad Antispam from 6A which is completely free and open source.

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:13:41 +0000

Jaiku is just as screwy an example. It just emerged from under the Google rock this past weekend.