WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg, was in Seattle today and decided to call a snap meetup of Seattle area WordPress users. All it took was a single blog post on Matt’s blog for over a dozen people to show up. And here I thought I was the only one with that kind of pull. The short notice meetup was held at Pike Pub & Brewery near the Pike Place Public Market. The last time I was in the Pike Pub was in 2007 for the World Cyber Game media party.
Matt Mullenweg is a great guy to hang out with. In addition to creating the best blogging software in the world, Matt is also on PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s Top 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. In addition to WordPress, his company also owns Akismet, Gravatar, VaultPress, IntenseDebate, Polldaddy, and more. Matt’s sites reach over half a billion people every month.
It was nice to network with other WordPress users and talk to Matt about the future of blogging and WordPress. I even got a scoop from him: VaultPress is now open to everyone. Go sign up!
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I am sure it was a great opportunity for you John as wordpress is the #1 blogging platform now days.
Really nice videos to watch.
Thanks.
Yeah!! It was really a nice video and Matt seems to be a nice guy.
No doubt video is awesome and this is my great pleasure to be a part..
Yeah he is a nice guy who needs hair cut ….
I wouldn*t worry about details like a hair cut. Besides he probably likes scruffy hair.
What is under the hair is way more important.
Looks like you guys had plenty of beer to drink.
The pitcher seems to indicate that but if there were a lot of people it could be that each person only had a glass. Only John can illuminate us on what it was really like.
Wow you got to meet the Wordpress founder! He must have been a tech genius then right John? I know he sure makes my life easier with my blogs.
Wordpress is amazing and free! Matt has done us all such a favor by inventing this software!
Because of free and easy to use this is so much popular.
Nice to see that he did not stop after inventing, he and his team is keep trying to improve it more and more.
He seems like the anti-Zuckerberg. Or, an under-the-radar version of Zuckerberg: We know he’s there by seeing his work everywhere, but he’s not constantly showing up on our screens.
matt is a smart guy, would like to interview him.
wordpress rocks!
You should just ask him but also make sure there’s something in it for Matt, per John’s recent advise on how to get stuff for free.
I hope i can meet Matt as well. I’m sure it’s going to be a great experience. WordPress is the best.
Pretty good crowd there.
You r lucky man
Wow thanks for sharing the video John i really enjoyed it.
The video was good but too short. I would have enjoyed even a tripple length video.
Really Great Interview with the Great guy! …but short enough
Good to know what’s coming ahead in Wordpress
Nice video, John.
It seems like he never stops with Wordpress, always lots of features coming.
Yes Regular updates and coming up with great ideas.
They are always on their toe to perform deliver quality service.
What a nice guy, AND one of the “25 Most Influential People on the Web”.
loving wordpress
I didn’t know that the founder of WordPress is so young!
Interesting stuff coming on wordpress. Full screen, yahoooooooooo!
Awesome stuff, John! What a great get-together. By the way, great to hear VaultPress is open to everyone now.
Matt Mullenweg is really a great man. He is the man of code…
It must be great to meet him, nice video John!
Very inspirational John. Just to know that a young guys like Matt and you are in the fore front is exciting.
hey distraction free screen from Wordpress, now that is something that I could do with!
Nice vid John, he seems like a nice guy
I couldn’t hear the first thing he said, which is “coming soon”, before he mentioned the distraction free writing. Did anyone catch what it is?
Looks old man on the video!!if i am wrong then correct me..?
WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It’s often customized into a Content Management System (CMS).[5] It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites.
Well, you had a great time there=)
He’s old !
Boy his group of websites are simply awesome … All are successful.
Matt name is quite popular in internet world. Matt Cutts and Matt Mulenweg …
It’s really superb part in it
It seems you had a nice time with Matt Mullenweg. He is really an inspiration and I am sure every wordpress blogger is really grateful to that guy.
I love Wordpress and i have 4 wordpess blog but not like you John, I’m a newbie but will be a pro one day.
I love wordpress and wordpress is something different.
i love wordpress and would like to be part always
Have fund reading this article.
And I love Wordpress.
Wow you got to meet the Wordpress founder! He must have been a tech genius then right John? I know he sure makes my life easier with my blogs.