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Description

I interview Matt Mullenweg on the recent announcement that Automattic has purchased WooCommerce.

Summary

This here is the third episode of the Webmonkey podcast, and we’re WIRED devs Jake Spurlock and Ben Chirlin. This week, we sit down with Matt Mullenweg and chat about the recent announcement that Automattic has purchased WooCommerce, plus the potential to add eCommerce abilities to blogs on WordPress.com. Ben also gives us the skinny on Cyphon, his project to bring 20+ years of WIRED.com archives into WordPress with a custom node.js app. Lastly, we look at regular expressions, and their place in computer science. Friday Faves Star Wars Armada Psyco-Pass Google Cardboard Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (Jake Spurlock is @whyisjake and Ben Chirlin is @benchirlin) or to the main hotline at @Webmonkey.

Subtitle
I interview Matt Mullenweg on the recent announcement that Automattic has purchased WooCommerce.
Duration
52:20
Publishing date
2015-05-29 20:23
Link
https://www.wired.com/2015/05/webmonkey-podcast-e-commerce-coming-wordpress-com/
Contributors
  Jake Spurlock
author  
Enclosures
https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/https://www.wired.com/podcast-download/1788237/webmonkey-podcast-e-commerce-coming-wordpress-com.mp3
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Shownotes

This here is the third episode of the Webmonkey podcast, and we’re WIRED devs Jake Spurlock and Ben Chirlin. This week, we sit down with Matt Mullenweg and chat about the recent announcement that Automattic has purchased WooCommerce, plus the potential to add eCommerce abilities to blogs on WordPress.com. Ben also gives us the skinny on Cyphon, his project to bring 20+ years of WIRED.com archives into WordPress with a custom node.js app. Lastly, we look at regular expressions, and their place in computer science.

Friday Faves

Send the hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds (Jake Spurlock is @whyisjake and Ben Chirlin is @benchirlin) or to the main hotline at @Webmonkey.