MSN Spaces Closing, Becomes WordPress.com
Matt Mullenweg:
As just announced on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Windows Live (formerly MSN) Spaces is shutting down and migrating their 30m+ users to WordPress.com. Four years ago I was fairly worried as every internet giant (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google) had a hosted blogging service. Now only Blogger remains, and is firmly in our sights.
Blogger, no doubt, has the lion’s share of everyday bloggers. But if I were Matt, I might be more concerned about Tumblr as the most credible (and future) threat to WordPress.com.
Yes, Cameron is right. The threat to Wordpress is not Blogger, Six Apart (who was purchased by VideoEgg last week), or other old school blogging tools. The competitive challenge will come from Tumblr and other more social stream media. Of course, Wordpress could adopt an open follower model for users to internally follow blogs, a la Tumblr, like Typepad did last year with the Micro release.
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Tumblr is a WordPress killer.
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Wow. It’s quite a site to see Microsoft conceding its customers to someone else. Events like this typically happen
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my two cents Yes, Cameron is right. The threat to Wordpress is not Blogger, Six Apart (who was purchased by VideoEgg...
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