WordPress Parent Buys Polling Site PollDaddy
PaidContent Oct 15 08
No, PollDaddy was never related to GoDaddy, but now it is part of the WordPress family: Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress platform, has acuired the online polls service PollDaddy, likely in a small cash an equity deal. The official terms of the deal were not disclosed.
PollDaddy offers free polls, used by alot of bloggers, but also offers advanced services for a fee. Its services will now be natively embedded with the WordPress editor and as a plugin, but will also continue as separate services, integrated within other social media sites such as MySpace, Ning, Blogger, Typepad, Hi5, Orkut, Piczo and others. Full story...
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