Automattic, Home of WordPress, Launches
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Matt Mullenweg and Ryan Boren have launched the Automattic site, which organizes their various WordPress and other projects. Matt Marshall at Silicon Beat has the details.
Also, and as predicted by Dave Winer, WordPress.org also announced that they will be integrated into Yahoo hosting in a similar deal as that announced with Six Apart’s Movable Type last week. Jeremy Zawodny has more.
