> does anyone know why the functionality there requires a wordpress.com account (or rather, are there any efforts towards being able to self-host that part?)?

> does anyone know why the functionality there requires a wordpress.com account (or rather, are there any efforts towards being able to self-host that part?)? The list is long: http://jetpack.me/features/ http://jetpack.me/features/ (probably half of those require the connection) Examples include stats (a pain to scale on shared hosting), related posts (also known to kill database servers), site uptime monitoring, image CDN (including on the fly thumbnailing), and so on. It basically provides the things that you probably don't want to self-host. You get some of the scaling of WordPress.com while being able to do your own thing (plugins, custom theme, etc.).