ByBrian Krogsgard
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Automattic has been awarded just over $25,000 in damages in a case against a DMCA takedown abuser, to cover legal fees and company costs from the case.
As the TorrentFreak article notes, while this is largely a symbolic win, it’s important because it’s “a clear signal to other copyright holders that false DMCA takedown requests are not always left unpunished.”
Twitter has acquired Revue, a small company whose service lets you build newsletters from your social media, RSS feeds, and other sources. Matt Mullenweg noted that Automattic was the largest investor in Revue. 🗞️
The release of the WordPress.com Desktop app (codenamed Calypso) is now on Windows and Linux in addition to Mac. You can now use the app anywhere, and they’ve open sourced the desktop app itself. The internals of the app were already open source, but this is the actual desktop wrapper code, that uses Electron. Enter…
I had the privilege to attend and be the media partner at A Day of REST, the world’s first conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Here’s my initial review, and some pictures, from the event.
Angela Jin is our guest on the latest episode of Post Status Draft. Join us as we ask what the future holds for the conferences, meetups, and other social gatherings we’ve enjoyed in the past.
Corey Maass and Cory Miller share the messiness of building a WordPress product live. They reveal the initial version of Crop.Express, a plugin designed to crop a featured image within the WordPress workflow and discuss their progress and ongoing development.
WooCommerce has officially switched over to require WordPress.com account credentials. The announcement was made by Todd Wilkens, the new lead of WooCommerce within Automattic. Todd was formerly the head of mobile and chat products at Atlassian (HipChat, etc). This change is “just” for a login, but considering WooCommerce probably has a couple hundred thousand users,…
