Wordpress.com reboots from scratch to take on Medium [TNW News]

See this Matt Mullenweg post for more details. Maybe these market dynamics will also lead Google to invest a bit more in Blogger...

"Calypso looks like a huge leap forward for a project that seemed to stagnate for many years, no doubt spurred on by recent efforts made by Medium.

A spokesperson from Automattic told The Next Web that these new tools are also available to sites that use the open source Wordpress.org platform, but you’ll need to install the company’s Jetpack plugin in order for Calypso to work."

Wordpress.com reboots from scratch to take on Medium