The intent of attain WordPress into the hub of your online state is not newborn — Chris Messina and the rest of the DiSo project hit been employed toward just that for whatever time. But today it seems that Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, has something kindred in mind.

Mullenweg’s consort Automattic fresh snatched up Andy Peatling, creator of BuddyPress a assemblage of WordPress plugins that invoke the code into a category of status ethnic network. In announcing the hiring, Mullenweg writes:

It’s country that the forthcoming is social. Connections are key. WordPress MU is a papers which has shown itself to be healthy to control at Internet-scale and with BuddyPress we crapper attain it friendlier. Someday, perhaps, the concern module hit a genuinely Free and Open Source deciding to the walled gardens and open-only-in-API platforms that currently lie our ethnic landscape.

What relic blurred is just what variety of ethnic connections Mullenweg has in mind.

On digit assistance this could be an try to heat a ethnic meshwork into WordPress. Or, on the another hand, it could be something more same DiSo, which is most managing your online cosmos finished the WordPress interface.

Given the nature of the BuddyPress plugin, it would seem that the past is more likely, which is black since the after would probable be more useful.

Luckily the DiSo folks are ease hornlike at impact in the wink cave, and we wait enthusiastic things to rise eventually.

[via GigaOm]