Wordpress.com is currently one of the best free webhosting service on the internet with more than 5 million hosted blogs and thousands of articles published daily. Wordpress is managed by the developers of Wordpress Content Management System (CMS).
Wordpress.com has several add-on openly distributed to the public and developed by different users across the web. Wordpress was launched in 2005 to expose the blogging software that they have developed.
Wordpress.com allows creation of blogs for free with easy installation specialized for those who don't have any technical knowledge in website design. Any users can create blogs in seconds and start publishing articles.
Wordpress started as a blog hosting website during the time when their competitors such as Blogger and Typepad have gained ground in the blogosphere. But due to the experts behind Wordpress who updates the blogging software regularly, Wordpress was able to withstand and gain greater market share in the blogosphere.
Today, wordpress.com is now one of the most trafficked website on the internet. They get their revenue through their wordpress.com premium accounts where users can upgrade their account and gain more features for their wordpress.com blog.
Lorelle.wordpress.com (as far as i have discovered) is one of the most visited blog hosted by wordpress.com. The blog has good contents and links towards high-quality articles.
The popularity of wordpress created new business such as selling of wordpress theme, using wordpress platform for their blogs/website and many more. There were also controversies that around the wordpress community such as the increasing number of splogs and false positive spam blocking.
