Being WordPress – And Not So Fresh Updates From Wordcamp 08

At WordCamp, a User and Developer 1-day conference for the WordPress blogging platform, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures and reaffirmed Automattic’s focus on fixing some of WordPress’s biggest weaknesses. The theme for the “State of the Word”, Mullenweg’s yearly keynote, was “Strong,” and growth from both WordPress.com and WordPress.org (their hosted and self-hosted platforms, respectively) sure show it. Here are the stats for WordPress.com over the last year:

• Page views grew from 1.5 billion to 6.5 billion/month
• 1/3 of the page views come from VIPs like CNN and LOLCats
• 120-160 million unique visitors
• Two million new blogs created
• 35 million new blog posts (up from 20 million)

This growth is also seems significant versus WordPress.com’s main competitor, Typepad. Comscore numbers put US numbers at 20.9M uniques for WordPress.com against 7.2M on Typepad.com, and internationally 97.8M vs. 16.8M.

Wordcamp 2008 – Presentations

• The Future of Education and WordPress
• SEO Mistakes Most Bloggers Make – Stephan Spencer
• Open Source Business Models – Stephen O’Grady
• Andy Skelton – A musical performance
• LOLcats and the Secret of Virality
• WordPress & Microformats
• Switching to WordPress Painlessly – Lloyd Budd
• 450 WordPress Power User Tips – Lorelle VanFossen
• Hassle-free Upgrades – Sam Bauers
• State of the Word – Matt Mullenweg
• Get Friendly with BuddyPress – Andy Peatling
• Democratizing the Web through Global Voices – Jeremy Clarke
• An interview with Om Malik
• Riding the Crazyhorse – Liz Danzico and Jane Wells
• A musical performance by Chuck Lewis aka SEO Rapper
• Kicking Ass and Creating Passionate Users – Kathy Sierra

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