We’re ease at The Next Web Conference 2009 here in Amsterdam, and I meet ran into Matt Mullenweg from Automattic / WordPress and directly unfree him, place him against a brick surround right and got him to respond whatever questions most the consort and WordPress.

The takeaways:

- BuddyPress, which is questionable to alter an artefact of WordPress MU into whatever variety of a white-label ethnic networking platform, is feat to be launched ‘relatively shortly’. Mullenweg calls it “Facebook-in-a-box”.

- The stylish edition of WordPress (version 2.7.1) is sight most 27,000 downloads a day (the built-in machine updater helps a lot, apparently).

- WordPress.com saw 175,000+ newborn journal posts from a lowercase low 200,000 bloggers in the terminal 24 hours (translated to most 44.5 meg words) alone. A hurried countenance at the site’s comScore stats pegs monthly uniques to hit reached 24.4 meg U.S. visitors terminal month, compared to 48.3 meg for Blogger and 13.3 meg for Six Apart services. For reference, Facebook’s March reciprocation was at 61.2 meg unequalled visitors.

- Real-time position updating is not threatening lawful blogging, according to Mullenweg. When asked if Twitter is consumption the chronicle discover of blogging, he responded that blogging is not speed down and that the assist is actually quite gratis with WordPress.

- Automattic acquired 3 companies terminal assemblage (IntenseDebate, PollDaddy and BuddyPress) and is definitely considering doing more of that. Mullenweg says “it’s fun” but that he’s not thinking on making some announcements presently because he’s ease inactivity for the prices to go down.

Here’s the flooded interview:

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