Automattic Goes Shopping Again

By Mark Evans | Published: October 15, 2008

For a long time, I’ve been a huge fan of Poll Daddy because it’s user-friendly yet effective way to do polls and surveys.

And given I’m also a Wordpress disciple, it’s exciting to see Automattic purchase Poll Daddy, which much to my surprise is only a two-man shop.

Given all the hand-wringing these days about business models and generating revenue, it is also refreshing to see that Poll Daddy offers free and premium services.

Wordpress’ acquisition portfolio now includes:

- BuddyPress, which is an initial move into the social networking.

- Intense Debate, which offers blog comment services

- Gravatar, which lets you add an avatar image.

With $29-million of financing, Automattic has more than enough muscle to make other strategic acquisitions at far lower prices than even a month ago.

Just for fun, let’s do a Poll Daddy poll:

For more thoughts on the deal, check out Mashable. Check out the Poll Daddy blog as well.

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  1. By Another Stab at the Freemium Thesis | Mark Evans on October 23, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    [...] I used PollDaddy as an example of how freemium didn’t work only to learn PollDaddy (which was recently acquired by Automattic) is actually an example of company successfully using [...]

  2. By TwtPoll: PollDaddy for Twitter? | Twitterrati on June 30, 2009 at 7:02 am

    [...] the end, PollDaddy was purchased by Automattic, which operates [...]

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