Author Archives: Frederick Townes

About Frederick Townes

Frederick Townes is the Chief Technical Officer of Mashable.com, one of the top 3 blogs worldwide. As designer, search / social media marketer and WordPress consultant Frederick’s projects are typically based on WordPress. One of his largest contributions to the WordPress community was his performance plugin W3 Total Cache.

Since 2003 his agency W3 EDGE has assisted startups and brands like: Smashing Magzine, CVS Pharmacy, Hyatt, Kodak, Microsoft, Sanyo, Sherwin Williams, Southwest Airlines, Staples, Sony, R.E.I., Weight Watchers, Yahoo and others.

A serial web entrepreneur, one of Frederick’s latest projects was W3 MARKUP. Quickly rising to the #2 web site production outsourcing services in 2008, W3 MARKUP was so disruptive it was acquired by the market leader after 11 short months.

First One Blog, Next an Empire

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 3 Comments »

Collis Ta’eed is a veteran blogger and co-founded the Envato network of educational sites and marketplaces covering niches like freelancing and web app’s and much much more. Collis’ network of sites reaches hundreds of thousands of readers monthly, his marketplaces … Continue reading →

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Google + WordPress, The Matt Cutts Point of View

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 63 Comments »

Matt Cutts is a Software Engineer who heads the web spam team at Google. Matt has been using WordPress for years and feels WordPress makes search engine optimization easier and easier with each update. On today’s show he highlights the … Continue reading →

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Adii Pienaar: Solving Problems the WooThemes Way

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 1 Comment »

Adii Pienaar is a co-founder of WooThemes, a leading WordPress theme provider. WooThemes endeavors to maintain a tight connection with their users, an integral element of their success. Adii discusses what WooThemes is up to, what they’ve contributed to the … Continue reading →

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The Secret Sauce, Pete Cashmore Explains How to be Mashable

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 11 Comments »

Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of one of the world’s most popular blogs – Mashable.com, which happens to be powered by WordPress! Since 2005 Mashable has been a leader in social media and technology news coverage in addition to … Continue reading →

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His Name is King for a Reason

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 3 Comments »

Alex King is among the original contributors to the WordPress project (which has almost reached version 3.0) and a prolific plugin developer. As you might expect, over the years he and his team at Crowd Favorite have created numerous freely … Continue reading →

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