WordCamp 2007: WordPress the leading innovator in Blogging, Matts’ presentation
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NEWS AND ANALYSIS,
For the Agenda of the Matt Mullenweg’s presentation: http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/state-of-the-word/
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Innovation: Past and Future of WordPress, according to Matt
Mullenweg said flexibility was the most important element in the WordPress platform’s success to date, and the key to it’s hoped-for longevity.
Mullenweg outlined a vision for how WordPress has achieved exponential growth including 1,041,846 new blogs on WordPress in the past year, since the previous WordPress conference. In this time 1,628,046,157 page views of WordPress blogs had also been achieved.
According to Mullenweg, Wordpress is already used by major companies such as the NY Times newspaper and Lockheed-Martin.
Mullenweg attributed the overwhelming success of the platform to the extraordinary efforts of the developer, theme design and support community, who received very strong applause from all attendees.
Matt’s presentation spoke primarily about the future of WordPress has a “vision of being a small, fast, light platform and not bring in the kitchen sink”
Quick Statistics from the presentation
In the last year, since the previous conference according to Matt Mullenweg’s presentation:
- 2,849,349 downloads of the WordPress software plus all the host copy downloads
- 1,041,846 new blogs on WordPress
- 20,212,994 WordPress posts, plus all the categories, pages and multiplying.
The WordCamp 2007 Conference – 21 & 22 July 2007
The WordCamp 2007 Conference had 395 official attendees over 2 days in the Swedish American Hall, in
Another prominent presenter included Matt Cuts from Google (http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/search-engine-optimization/)
2thinknowTM Analysis of WordCamp and WordPress
“WordPress is emerging as the leading personal content system for small numbers of users.” said
Hire went on to say: “Whilst the format of the conference was ostensibly about blogging, blogging is just about delivering content to users.”
“WordPress is at current the emerging front-runner in user-driven participatory content, a big part of what’s called Web 2.0.”
Hire declared, “2thinknowTM proprietary innovation models clearly predict that WordPress will be the leading provider in the personal content space, and will grow exponentially over the next 3 years.”
“An interesting growth aspect and opportunity will be penetration of WordPress into European countries, and distribution in non-English speaking versions.”
Broader Blogging Trends
“Even more exciting upside in the broader blogosphere is that user-generated content will move beyond blog opinion or life journals, and into serious ‘journalistic’ applications covered by declining print media like Business 2.0 and Forbes magazine.”
“The blogging medium will enable vast swathes of new types of content, and there are many other factors 2thinknowTM predict will occur in the media-choice space for media-consumers.”
“Our innovation models predict broad-0based exponential growth in content as content tools like WordPress become less technical to utilize. Meaning Mums and Dads, Grandmas and Grandads can blog.”
For more information, paid advice or materials on 2thinknowTM innovation models or research, contact us here.
Christopher Hire:
Author of the Global Innovation Review, and Chief Editor of this journal. Focussed on innovation, innovation cities and positive social change globally.
Aug 10th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
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