Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless “spiritual successor” to WordPress, available on GitHub
The cost of building software has drastically decreased. We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents.
Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Liz Hoffman / Semafor : America is becoming the world's dumb money Dominic Preston / The Verge : Trump Media is merging with a ...
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Phil Hoad / The Guardian : An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appe...
A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has a $30M ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% revenue cut
Not for the first time, the newsletter platform Substack … Bluesky: Danny Groner / @dannygroner : “The scheme seems to be working: The Media Collective currently supports 20 to 25 independent publishe...
Ghost's CEO details the organization's governance structure and says the open-source CMS generates ~$7.5M in annual revenue and has been profitable for 12 years
Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license. Threads: @prschulz , @dvdwinden , and @quillmatiq . Mastodon: @ben@werd.s...
Austria-based Storyblok, which offers a headless CMS, raised an $80M Series C led by Brighton Park, after a $47M Series B in May 2022, and reports 200K+ users
If content is king, then the focus today is on how the king is expanding the empire: Print and traditional media first got augmented by websites …
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT via Reddit's Data API and to add AI features to Reddit
what this means for ChatGPT Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Reddit Partners with OpenAI to Integrate Content into ChatGPT Financial Times : Reddit shares surge as it strikes content deal with OpenA...
Sources: Vox Media plans to stop using Chorus, its CMS that the company licensed to external publishers from 2018 to 2022, and move its websites to WordPress
Vox Media, the parent company to websites such as New York Magazine, Eater and SB Nation, will no longer use Chorus …
Contentstack, a headless CMS for enterprises, raised an $80M Series C co-led by Georgian and Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $169M
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Fast Company brings its site, Inc, and Mansueto back online after eight days, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and no customer or advertiser info was disclosed
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