170 – Other Awesome Services by Automattic

• WordPress.com
  • Hosted solution for blogging
  • Premium Upgrades are available
• Jetpack
  • Jetpack supercharges your self‑hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.
  • Back in the day, there were great features available to WordPress.com users that were not available on self-hosted WordPress installs. Jetpack is a plugin that connects to WordPress.com and enables awesome features, powered by our cloud infrastructure.
  • Here’s just a few of the modules included in Jetpack:
    • Comments: Give your readers the ability to comment using their WordPress.com, Twitter, or Facebook accounts.
    • Contact Form: Insert a contact form anywhere on your site.
    • Custom CSS: Customize your site’s look without modifying your theme.
    • Gravatar Hovercards: Show a pop-up business card of your users’ Gravatar profiles in comments.
    • Infinite Scroll: Learn how to add infinite scroll support to your theme.
    • Likes: Likes are a way for people to show their appreciation for content you have written. It’s also a way for you to show the world how popular your content has become.
    • Markdown: Gives you the option of writing posts or pages in plain-text Markdown syntax.
    • Mobile Push Notifications: Get notified of new comments on your Apple device.
    • Mobile Theme: Optimize your site for mobile devices.
    • Monitor: Jetpack will notify you if your site goes offline and when it is accessible again.
    • Publicize: Publicize makes it easy to share your site’s posts on several social media networks automatically when you publish a new post.
    • Social Links: this module is a canonical source, based on Publicize, that themes can use to let users specify where social icons should link to.
    • Sharing: Share your content on Facebook, Twitter, and more with a few simple clicks.
    • Shortcode Embeds: Embed content from YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare, and more into your site, no coding necessary.
    • WP.me Shortlinks: Enable WP.me-powered shortlinks for all of your Posts and Pages for easier sharing.
    • Spelling and Grammar: Improve your spelling, style, and grammar with the After the Deadline proofreading service.
    • WordPress.com Stats: Monitor your stats with clear, concise reports and no additional load on your server.
    • Subscriptions: Allow users to subscribe to your posts and comments to receive notifications via email.
• Simplenote
  • The simplest way to keep notes. It’s light, clean and free. Available for iOS, Android, Mac and the web
  • Your notes stay updated across all your devices. No buttons to press. It just works.
  • Find notes quickly with instant searching and simple tags.
  • Share a list, post some instructions, or publish your thoughts.
  • Your notes are backed up when you change them. Just drag the version slider to go back in time.
  • Type what you’re looking for, and your list updates instantly. You’ll never misplace an important thought again.
  • Backups, syncing and sharing, it’s all free!
• VaultPress
  • Backup and security for your WordPress site (self-hosted)
  • VaultPress makes it easy to keep an up-to-date backup of your site with both daily and realtime syncing of all your WordPress content. To ensure your site stays safe, VaultPress performs security scans daily and makes it easy to review and fix threats.
  • The VaultPress plugin connects your site to the VaultPress servers. Backups and security scans take advantage ofWordPress hooks, and are optimized for WordPress-powered sites. Provide FTP or SSH information, and VaultPress can automatically restore a backup to your site.
  • Lite: $5/month or $55/year
  • Basic $15/month or $165/year
  • Premium $40/month or $440/year
• Akismet
  • Possibly the best way in the world to protect you from web spam
  • Akismet filters out your comment and trackback spam for you, so you can focus on real comments.
  • Akismet is a hosted web service that saves you time by automatically detecting comment and trackback spam. It’s hosted on our servers, but we give you access to it through plugins and our API.
  • How does it work? Each time a new comment, trackback, or pingback is added to your site it’s submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down. As a result, you don’t have to waste your time sorting through and deleting spammy comments from your blog.
  • Personal: $0-$120/year, choose your price
  • Professional: $5/month or $59/year
  • Enterprise: $50/month or $550/year
• Polldaddy
  • Create surveys and polls that match your brand, budget and vision
  • Surveys, Polls, Quizzes and Ratings
  • Unlimited surveys, unlimited response.
  • College your responses via website, email or on your iPad or iPhone
  • Powerful Reporting and Filtering
  • Customize your looks with CSS
  • Free
  • Pro: $200/yr
  • Corporate $899/yr
• Gravatar
  • Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?
• VideoPress
  • Quite possibly the easiest way to upload beautiful videos to your blog
  • It’s inexpensive, ad-free and works with WordPress.
  • Flat rate of $60 a year
  • Strict Privacy Control
  • Keeps all of your visitors on your site
  • No max time duration
  • Ad-free playback
• IntenseDebate
  • Comment Threading
  • Reply by Email
  • Email notifications
  • Reputation Points
  • Connect with Twitter / Facebook
• Simperium
  • Simperium is a service for developers to move data everywhere it’s needed, instantly and automatically.
  • User data change are transferred when connect to a network
  • Free for less than 2500 users
  • Up to $1499/mo for 75,000 users
• Code Poet
  • Articles, books, interviews, resources all about WordPress
• Cloudup
  • WordPress.com VIP
    • The world’s best WordPress solution for enterprises
    • VIP Cloud Hosting and VIP Support
    • Some clients
      • NBC Sports
      • TED
      • TechCrunch
      • CNN
      • Time
      • UPS
    • Starts at $5000/month

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