Category: work
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.blog Domains Are Now Available to Everyone!
Originally posted on WordPress.com News: Today’s the day! Now you can search for the .blog domain of your choice and associate it with your WordPress.com site. As we announced in May, the launch of .blog, a new top-level domain extension, means there are millions of easy-to-remember addresses now available for your website. Pricing for…
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Applications Now Open for Early ‘Landrush’ .blog Domains
Originally posted on WordPress.com News: If you’ve ever had a great idea for a name for your blog or website, now’s your chance to snap it up: today marks the start of the “Landrush” phase for the all-new .blog domain names. That means you can apply now to get early access to a .blog…
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Working Not Working reveals the top 50 companies creatives would kill to work for
Working Not Working reveals the top 50 companies creatives would kill to work for
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Automattic, in 2016, in Whistler
Originally posted on Matt on Not-WordPress, mostly photos: Thanks to Donncha for the photo!
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Jeremey DuVall on “How All Hands Support Works Automattic”
The superb Jeremey DuVall explains how we bring everyone through Support at Automattic. This is timely as I’ve just started buddying my second (!!) initial Support Rotation. He’ll end up in another team doing JavaScript, but right now he is very eager to learn about our Customers and the contact we receive. For the initial three…
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It’s Time: Apply For Early Access to Your Own .blog Domain Name
Originally posted on WordPress.com News: If you’ve been looking for the perfect address for your blog, it’s about to get even easier. Millions of new .blog domain names (like yourname.blog) will be available this November — and starting today, you can apply to secure your own domain name. Just go to get.blog and apply…
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First six weeks at Automattic
So today is pretty cool I've joined @automattic! https://t.co/48a5bCIRR7 — Doug (@dougaitken) June 29, 2016 Six weeks ago today I let the news fly. I’d spent over three hours a few nights before, on Slack with Matt, at the end of which, he offered me a full time position. How is the job? V v cool. Today:Helped…
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Hello world!
I decided to keep this post, and the initial text quoted below, as it is a reminder of how long I’ve been trying to keep up consistently blogging. As this is the original first post, you’ll notice the date at the bottom. Yes, I’ve been trying through various incarnations since even before that to have…
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