Matthew Mullenweg is like the Bill Gates of Internet software. But then again, maybe he’s not. All of Matt’s software is Open Source (free to use, free to modify). Oh, and his software works. Did I mention he listens to his users? Or how about the fact that he answers every single one of his email messages? So I take that back…he’s not like Gates at all. He’s more better!

• Matt is one of the most popular bloggers in the entire universe at Photo Matt.
• He’s the lead developer for WordPress, the best blogging software available.
• Dougal Campbell teammed up with Matt to launch Ping-o-Matic, your one stop for letting sites around the web know that you’ve updated your blog.
• Over the holidays and out of the blue, he started a new piece of forum software from scratch, bbPress.
• Just today I came across automattic.com, another domain registered to Matt. Not quite sure what he has in store here, but I now know that “Some things are automattic, some things aren’t.”