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Automattic — the maker of WordPress.com — has purchased Tumblr

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2019

Automattic has purchased Tumblr from Verizon, in a firesale move reported to be for less than $3 million. There is still value in the site, however, for Automattic.

Some prominent sites have moved to…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Some prominent sites have moved to WordPress recently. 🧳 Basecamp's popular blog Signal v Noise switched to WordPress from Medium, noting that "three years ago [Medium] was a wonderful place and community for our kind of writing." David Heinemeier Hansson says…

Tumblr shares some statistics after their…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

Tumblr shares some statistics after their move to PHP 7. Almost immediately they saw their latency drop by half and the CPU load on the servers decrease "at least 50%." I like their very short but true summary at the end…

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.

Envato is introducing a hosted website platform

Brian Krogsgard

November 17, 2015

BusinessDesign

It's easy to see some parallels between ThemeCloud and Envato Sites in terms of goals, but they are vastly different in execution. The basic goals for each is to make making websites easier. Envato has chosen to go with a fully…

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

Brian Krogsgard

August 22, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

Post formats were introduced in WordPress 3.1. They were, and still are, little more than an organizational feature that allows themes to support ten custom content formats such as asides, links, quotes, video, and audio. They are just a taxonomy…

Automattic has raised $160 million for a $1.16 billion company valuation

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has raised $160 million, led by Insight Venture Partners, Kara Swisher and Liz Gannes report in Re/code. A new fundraising deal has been rumored since mid-April, but just confirmed. This latest round puts Automattic at a $1.16 billion valuation. I'm no expert…

Getty Images are now “free” to embed, but they are awful

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

I read an article on The Verge this evening about how Getty Images have made their images freely embeddable. The photo above of Matt Mullenweg is an example. Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection,…

WordPress isn’t falling behind

Brian Krogsgard

November 7, 2013

WordPress News

When Tumblr first appeared, everyone wanted WordPress to begin emulating its features. Then came Medium and the same cry. Then Ghost launched and again the retort sounded that “WordPress is falling behind!” But is WordPress really lagging behind the pack?…