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Filed under: Asides | Tags: Six Apart (35), friendster (4) | December 20th, 2008
Friendster Switches
Friendster Relaunches Blogs, Switches to WordPress MU. Basically Friendster has switched millions of blogs from Typepad to WordPress, presumably at least partly because Six Apart abandoned their Typepad platform for third parties starting in late 2006 with Le Monde. ¶
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anonymous | December 20th, 2008 @ 8:12 pm |
Isn’t that obvious? Well, wordpress for teh win~
Eric Brown | December 20th, 2008 @ 8:15 pm |
Great news…wonder if they’ll be adding buddy press in the near future?
BoltClock | December 21st, 2008 @ 3:28 am |
Too bad I don’t use Friendster anymore.
BoltClock | December 21st, 2008 @ 3:34 am |
Double post, but, Automattic only noticed now? They’ve been migrating blogs to WordPress for months now.
Matt | December 21st, 2008 @ 11:43 pm |
I’m either there same-day or months later.
Jeremy | December 21st, 2008 @ 5:50 am |
Quite a nice xmas gift
Andrew Anker | December 21st, 2008 @ 8:04 am |
Matt… we haven’t abandoned anything and continue to support plenty of “third party” bloggers around the world on TypePad. This was simply a business relationship that no longer made sense for either party and Friendster’s internal development efforts leaned towards PHP.
With love in the holiday season.
Matt | December 21st, 2008 @ 11:42 pm |
Oh of course Typepad still an active platform with many people on it. But didn’t the codebase used to be licensed out to third-party hosts who ran their own Typepad, so to speak? I recall MLB had an instance as well that they switched to MT.
Wardell | December 21st, 2008 @ 9:19 am |
Good News for Wordpress eh?
Tommy | December 21st, 2008 @ 6:55 pm |
That’s good news! Wordpress indeed is the best blogging platform out there right now.
Nathan | December 21st, 2008 @ 9:53 pm |
Good thing. WordPress is the best thing that happened to blogging.
Andrew Anker | December 22nd, 2008 @ 10:12 am |
@matt Yes, MLB used to be on TypePad and switched to MT, Friendster switched to WP. And we have plenty of others that are still on TypePad in a licensed format. Two data points doesn’t not make an abandonment.
As you well know, sometimes companies start simple by letting us (or you) host their blog and then with success need more control and thus a self-hosting situation. That was the case with both Friendster and MLB. In once case they wanted to move to MT, in another WP. But for folks starting out and needing an easy solution, we onboard them with TypePad all the time.
Matt | December 22nd, 2008 @ 1:36 pm |
Cool good to know. I also know Le Monde was on licensed-Typepad as well, and one of the biggies in Japan. What are the best examples of licensed Typepad these days?
ipung | December 22nd, 2008 @ 11:10 am |
I believe Friendster already switched to Wordpress MU since august..
When I saw this postlink in my Wordpress dashboard, I thought Friendster is going to switch into another platform again.. Thank God they didn’t
Andrew Anker | December 22nd, 2008 @ 2:56 pm |
> What are the best examples of licensed Typepad these days?
@matt There are plenty. I’ll let you build your future prospect list on your own.
Happy holidays!
Kirb | December 22nd, 2008 @ 8:35 pm |
did you see searchengineland.com migrated to wordpress as well? I’m not sure what they were using before.
“……..the huge task of first migrating to WordPress and then getting an entire new design established on top of it”
http://searchengineland.com/search-engine-lands-new-look-15930
aman | December 22nd, 2008 @ 9:44 pm |
[off-topic] Matt, why the BuddyPress isn’t listed under your project listing or under the Automattic web?
Matt | December 22nd, 2008 @ 11:50 pm |
Missing a few things there, need to update it!
rizal | December 23rd, 2008 @ 6:32 am |
yeah , it because WP is the best ! rock on !
Grant | December 23rd, 2008 @ 9:10 am |
Friendster….friendster…oh yeah! They were the ones before MySpace which was the one beofre Facebook right?!