Matt Mullenweg, Automattic head honcho and creator of WordPress, mentioned a new forum software in an article over at the Houston Chronicle TechBlog (via Blogging Pro). The new piece of software is called TalkPress (for now at least, see this bbPress forum thread), and will co-exist with bbPress.
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, founded on the success of blogging platform WordPress (which BloggerTalks incidentally uses) by Matt Mullenweg, have raised another $29.5m in funding, with The New York Times opening its wallet. Matt himself have a post up, calling it Act 2 for Automattic, and takes a look in the rear view mirror [...]
Good news for WordPress.com bloggers. They’ve upped the upload space from 50 MB to 3 GB, and Matt beats his chest on the official blog, rightly so I guess. No movies for free though, then you need the file upgrade-thingy, which incidentally is boosted to 5 GB.
