WordPress and Other Similar Services

Last Wednesday, Raanan Bar-Cohen of Automattic spoke to our APOC Online Technologies class about all the sites and services Automattic operates. One of these is WordPress, a site that many use for blogging, and even more use as the platform for their website.

You see, now, instead of hiring some random dude across the world who communicates in English through Google Translate to build a website for you from scratch, there is a more universal language. One person can build a site and be done with it, and another person can easily step in and take over from there.

BRILLIANT! WordPress and several other sites like Drupal and Joomla have made this whole "startup" thing even easier.

This is starting to make me more of a believer in the Chris Anderson's basic message of The Long Tail. Because of the new streamline way to make an online business idea a reality, a bunch of smaller businesses will be popping up and combining to have the same share of the market as the big dogs.