PICTURES – Touring Automattic’s New Office

I was in San Francisco last week and got a chance to check out Automattic’s brand new office/lounge/HQ at 123 Hawthorne. Needless to say, it’s pretty amazing. I snapped some photos from my iPhone 5 (including some bathroom shots) – take a look at our new digs!

 

WordPress: A Company Collaborating on It's Own Terms

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We believe that organizations have the power to design the type of work structure they want, unbounded by spacial or technological constraints. Our mission is to help teams work better and improve collaboration no matter how they work. In this post, we want to put a spotlight on Automattic Inc., a company that's thriving while employing an unconventional management style.

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Video Shortcodes

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Yesterday, Elizabeth talked about adding videos to your blog. Here let's dive a bit deeper and look at how to use shortcodes to embed videos. On WordPress.com, you can use these handy bits of code to do cool things on your site with little effort, like embed files and create objects.

WordPress.com has a number ofย video shortcodes you can use to embed videos from a variety of sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, and Flickr.

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Need a new online home? It's easy to import into WordPress.com.

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We think it's important that you own the content you create online, which is why we make it simple to import or export all your data -- you wrote it it, it's yours, and you can take it where you'd like. If you want to become a part of the WordPress.com community but have been posting on Tumblr, Blogger, LiveJournal, Posterous, or other services, you can…

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Thank Yous

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Creating this new blog and small business from scratch in one month was not an easy task. Most told us it could only be done in three months. The following people proved that prediction wrong.

Thank you to Tim, Trevor, David, Josh, Kirill and Kyung at Tinypass, who, since the beginning of our partnership, have never ceased to surpass our expectations and make this a success.

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