The good folks over at wordpress.com invited me to their latest WordPress goodness and I must say it rocks! I am not certain for what exactly I am going to use ihad.wordpress.com since I still have WordPress! Bad pun, forgive me.
At a first glance the thing that I am missing most is the ability to add plugins (e.g. wp stats, amazon, flickr, live archives etc.) and the theme editor which means you are stuck with the themes available for now. I am sure there will be lots more in the future and more functionality will be added, too – although maybe that will come with a fee… time will tell.
I had a invite, but I prefer my own domain! Its all mine! I can add plugins too!
Yes, I am with on that. Total control! It’s all mine. And if it breaks it’s all mine to fix, too. That is basically the thing many people do not look forward to or are not able to do and so they are looking for a blogging service. I must say I welcome wp.com in that regard and I hope it can attract enough users. The big blogging services atm are huge magnets and not everybody thinks code is poetry; wp.com must feel a bit like Don Quixote fighting against gigantic windmills.