Sources: Matt Mullenweg offered another buyout offer to Automattic staff; Mullenweg appears to have redirected staff's Blind sign-up emails to himself
🍿🍿 🍿 🍿 — https://www.404media.co/... @noellemitchell@mstdn.social : “Instead of Blind, employees have been posting on Anonymattic, an anonymous message board set up on WordPress's own systems that a...
A look back at PLATO, an educational computer system released in 1960 that some consider a precursor to graphics, touchscreens, messaging apps, games, and more
Forums, instant messaging, and multiplayer video games all started here. — Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer … LinkedIn: Ray Ozzie . Mastodon: @davidgerard@circumstances.run . Twe...
Clubhouse lacks opportunities for virality and monetization that Twitch, Snapchat, and Discord have, and its product is one feature that has been copied easily
Clubhouse, an app which allows you to join audio conversations with other people (a function unavailable in any other app or device), is now worth $4 billion. Tweets: @edzitron , @jeffnolan , @davidge...
Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230
For a Price Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot : Trump-Twitter drama causes Cameron Winklevoss to get relentlessly owned Facebook: John McCarthy : President Donald J. Trump is ramping up his attacks agains...
A close reading of the S-1 of the soap opera that is The We Company, a “tech company” whose mission “is to elevate the world's consciousness”
Fruit Water and Financial Arbitrage Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn Byrne Hobart / Medium : What is We!? Understanding the WeWork IPO Gabriela Barkho / Observe...
UK's Financial Conduct Authority proposes a ban on the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives like futures, options, and ETFs to consumers from next year
Financial Times : Tweets: @katie_martin_fx and @davidgerard Tweets: Katie Martin / @katie_martin_fx : ICYMI crypto (the ‘asset’, not the faeces-born bacteria) is a very sensible store of value: https...
NY State AG sues Bitfinex for allegedly using Tether reserve funds to cover withdrawals, after the loss or theft of ~$851M from Bitfinex's payments processor
if they service a substantial # of US customers they don't immunize themselves from US regulations and laws by locating offshore http://www.wsj.com/... Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts : You go to pris...