Posted by Om Malik on GigaOm.com
A few months ago, Anne Zelenka wrote about how WordPress could be an underpinning of a social network, an idea first postulated by Chris Messina. Of course, when Automattic, the startup behind WordPress.com?s hosted service, raised a whopping $29.5 million in VC funding recently, I speculated that they might be adding social networking features to their service. Now it is almost certain. (Continue reading at Gigaom.com.)