Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress “on hold”, fediverse, content moderation, and more
In honor of Automattic's 20th anniversary, and also since it's been a few years … Bluesky: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Lots and lots from Matt Mullenweg on Decoder, including some deep discussion of the...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells a reporter, who is looking into his Hawaii land acquisition, that he knows where she is staying and her personal details
Oglala Lakota and of Irish descent| IndigeQueer. Shannon Thaler / New York Post : Salesforce's billionaire CEO Marc Benioff is quietly buying up vast tracts of real estate in Hawaii Bluesky: @scotian...
In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr's future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more
It's also worth sharing this note from a former Tumblr employee who hoped to work on the project: https://mastodon.social/... @jtr@fosstodon.org : Matt on Tumblr — “There have been a few staff chang...
Memo: Tumblr is downscaling its ambitions after failing to reach its goals for a new audience and plans to focus on the website's “core functionality” in 2024
Tumblr is downscaling its ambitions after failing to reach goals for a new audience, aiming to move some staff members …
Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI's future, and more
The former Yahoo chief says she wishes she had acquired Hulu instead of Tumblr. — After a decades-long career …
Q&A with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on closing the Tumblr deal, profitability, content moderation, Apple's rules, Twitter, lessons for Elon Musk, and more
What can Elon learn from Tumblr? — We have to talk about Twitter, right? Elon Musk bought it. Tweets: @decoderpod , @yoda , @harrymccracken , and @zeldman See also Mediagazer Tweets: @decoderpod : ...
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick / iMore : Is Twitter ...
Interview with Automattic CEO on the company's growth, the future of open-source WordPress, Tumblr and Apple's App Store rules, Web3, Bitcoin, Ethereum, more
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As Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio quietly departs and the company merges with Automattic, a look at its future plans and enormous impact on the modern social web
The CEO of Tumblr—a social platform that was once worth more than $1 billion, and in its time was among the internet's most popular …
Indie.vc, a six-year-old effort by O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures to invest small amounts in bootstrapped businesses, shuts down after results left LPs unimpressed
6 years ago, a mysterious Tumblr site appeared on the internet. Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : The idea was to back the next GitHub, which became profitable early on and didn't take any VC money fo...