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Matthew Mullenweg è nato e cresciuto in Houston,Texas. E’ appassionato di fotografia. Scrive codice,prosa e musica.

WordPress

Matt è il founder developer di WordPress,il software per la gestione dei blog, che fa funzionare milioni di blog nel mondo. WordPress è “a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform” ma cosa più importante è parte di ciò che Matt è. Esattamente come non può fare a meno di mangiare,respirare, della musica allao stesso modo non può fare a meno di lavorare su WordPress.Il progetto accomuna diverse persona, cosa che recentemente ha cominciato ad apprezzare. Si considera molto fortunato di poter lavorare su qualcosa che ama così tanto.

Ha anche scritto la prefazione di “WordPress for Dummies”.

Lavoro

Scuola e prime consulenze in Houston РTexas, poi si ̬ trasferito a San Francisco dove ha lavorato presso CNET Networks.

Verso la fine del 2005 si è licenziato per fondare la Automattic che è la società che gestisce wordpress.com,Akismet,Gravatar,BBpress,IntenseDebate,BuddyPress ed altri ancora che verranno.

E’ stato ed è Advisor di Sphere,WeGame,RescueTime e Foodzie.

Rassegna Stampa

• The WordPress Podcast: Matt Mullenweg Interview, Automattic acquires Intense Debate, discussion of WordCamps – 2008-10-17
• Netzpolitik-Podcast 070: Matt Mullenweg über WordPress (German) – 2008-10-09
• The 25 Most Influential People on the Web, The Publisher: Matt Mullenweg – 2008-09-29
• HorsePower #55 – Matt Mullenweg, WordPress (video) – 2008-09-29
• 30 Under 30: America’s Coolest Entrepreneurs – 2008-09-22
• WordPress CMS Founder, Matt Mullenweg Interview – 2008-09-10
• Matt Mullenweg Interviewed!- 2008-09-09
• Interview of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Automattic Fame – 2008-09-09
• Il Giornale.it intervista l’ideatore di WordPress- 2008-09-08
• Social Media Bible Podcast – 2008-08-29
• Matt Mullenweg – WordCamp South Africa 2008 (video) – 2008-08-25
• Matt Mullenweg & Joseph Scott Discuss The WordPress Themes Directory – 2008-08-13
• San Francisco Chronicle, business section cover story – 2008-07-17
• Cover of Linux Journal, available on Amazon – 2008-07-01
• Whuffie Factor interview with Tara Hunt – 2008-06-05
• Matt Mullenweg loves his Kindle, Mashable podcast – 2008-05-29
• WordPress Weekly podcast – 2008-05-27
• 10 questions with Matt Mullenweg – 2008-05-13
• Intruders.tv – Conversation with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress (video) – 2008-05-12
• Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg on Funding and Futures – 2008-02-05
• Prologue theme – 2008-01-28
• Houston Chronicle – For a native of Houston, the big time, comments – 2008-01-28
• Automattic Series B – GigaOM, New York Times, Techcrunch, Wall Street Journal, Venturebeat, Techmeme – 2007-01-22.
• La Nacion – Matt Mullenweg, el chico Web (Spanish) – 2007-12-20
• Blog Talk Radio – 2007-12-05
• Random Bits Podcast – 2007-11-19
• WordPress Stands for Open Source, Morals, Democracy – 2008-11-13
• WebProNews Video Interview at BlogWorld Expo – 2007-11-09
• The Guardian – WordPress makes a stand for open source morality – 2007-10-11
• The Guardian – The office of the future is all around – 2007-10-11
• CNET TV – 2007-09-20
• Blog Interviewer – 2007-09-17
• Interview with Tim Ferriss of the 4-Hour Workweek – 2007-08-21
• Interview with BlogSecurity – 2007-08-14
• Video Wallstrip Chat with Lindsay Campbell – 2007-08-13
• Episode 76 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak – 2007-08-07
• Interview with Adriaan Pienaar – 2007-08-02
• Video interview with Anastasia Tubanos – 2007-07-30
• KRON 4 – Brian Shields video report from WordCamp 2007 – 2007-07-22
• The Guardian – Why Google is the service of choice for sploggers – 2007-07-12
• CNET Webware video interviews with Rafe Needleman part one and part two – 2007-05-15
• Sydney Morning Herald – Building a Better Blogosphere – 2007-03-27
• ???? ?????????: «? ­- ????? ????????? ????? ? ????? (Russian) – 2007-03-20
• Folksonomy interview – 2007-03-19
• LAist SxSW video interview – 2007-03-14
• PC World 50 Most Important People on the Web (#16) – 2007-03-05
• Changing the Web at 21, Digg comments – 2007-03-04
• Nearthwort Podcast – 2007-02-21
• Brian Oberkirch Edgework Podcast – 2007-02-13
• NY Times – Some Bling for Your Blog – 2007-01-18
• Episode 38 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak – 2006-11-29
• El Pais – ENTREVISTA: MATT MULLENWEG, creador de WordPress (Spanish) – 2006-11-17
• Guardian UK – A Bigger Bang – 2006-11-04
• Episode 31 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak – 2006-10-11
• Blogging Pro Interview – 2006-10-30
• Wired Magazine – Spam + Blogs = Trouble – 2006-09-18
• Pro::PHP Webcast – 2006-07-38
• Startup Do’s and Don’ts with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic – 2006-05-24
• About.com Entrepreneurs Podcast – 2006-03-20
• Houstonist Interview – 2006-01-27
• Dorm’d interview (podcast) – 2006-01-24
• Yahoo Exec Exits for Automattic CEO Gig – 2006-01-11
• Mullenweg launches Automattic — to expand WordPress — scores Yahoo too – 2005-12-20
• Podleaders Thought Leader podcast – 2005-12-16
• SiliconValley.com The Googleverse – 2005-12-09
• About.com – An Interview with Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Creator – 2005-12-07
• Geek Entertainment TV videocast – 2005-11-30
• Geekstars – 2005-11-30
• Red Herring – Blog Service Offered for Free – 2005-11-21
• Blogebrity interview – 2005-10-26
• Web 2.0 Show podcast- 2005-08-30
• SFist Bay Blogger Thursday – 2005-08-12
• Infotalk Podcast with John Furrier- 2005-07-26
• Open Media 100 – 2005-06-23
• Corante – Why collaborate with Open Source tools – 2005-06-04
• RSS Updates Moving Beyond Pings – 2005-05-31
• SJ Mercury News: By Google’s ranking, the world’s No. 1 Matt – 2005-03-28
• Digital Web Interview – 2004-11-24
• Houston Press – The Blog Age – 2004-10-18
• The Ubergeeks.net – 2004-06-15

Altre Notizie

Matt è considerato da PCWorld la 16 persona più influente sul web (2007)

A fine 2007 sono stati offeti 200 milioni di USD per comprare Automattic, a precisa domanda Matt ha sempre risposto : “Non commento questa notizia”.

Se volete una foto di Matt per un articolo potete scegliere qui, qui e qui.