The Internet Defense League rallies to Restore the Fourth
While some may be celebrating on Independence Day with sparklers, hotdogs and pool parties, some of the biggest names on the internet will join thousands of protesters across 100 cities to Restore the...
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Blog-publishing platform WordPress (see disclosure) has become a major player on the internet over the past few years — it powers almost 20 percent of the world’s websites, and according to Quantcast...
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Pantheon One makes it easier to manage multiple websites
Pantheon, which offers SaaS-based content management systems based on open-source Drupal, now aims to make it easier for customers to manage multiple sites from one place, said company founder and CEO...
View ArticleLongreads content-sharing community acquired by WordPress owner Automattic
Longreads, which started with a Twitter hashtag and gradually evolved into a community of readers sharing longform fiction and journalism, said on Wednesday that it has been acquired by Automattic (see...
View ArticleWordPress parent Automattic said to be raising a VC round that values it at...
Automattic, the San Francisco-based company that is responsible for the WordPress web-publishing and blog-hosting platform — and the associated open-source community — is raising a round of venture...
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Can a little-known blogger turn his site into a business by selling...
If the launches of various new-media entities over the past year — from Beacon’s crowdfunding efforts and Syria Deeply’s topic-focused site to Ezra Klein’s Vox project and Jessica Lessin’s The...
View ArticleWordPress parent Automattic closes huge funding round that values the company...
There have been rumors for some time now that Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform and open-source community, was looking to close a large round of funding that might value...
View ArticleRemember Google’s Wave? Thanks to Sandstorm, it’s easy to start using again
Four years ago, Google axed a year-old collaborative messaging platform called Wave, as part of its drive to clear out relatively low-adoption standalone products ahead of its big...
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WordPress shames Janet Jackson for bullying bloggers and issues a new...
The blogging platform WordPress (see disclosure) is getting bolder in defense of its publishing partners. Last week, it introduced a “Hall of Shame” to highlight people and companies who abuse...
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Twitter and Etsy get high marks in report card on copyright and free speech
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has expanded its “Who Has Your Back” report, which tracks tech companies’ performance on civil liberties issues, to include a new category: how companies respond to...
View ArticleSocial fourth-quarter analysis and outlook
The last quarter of 2013 had a true millennial feel, the sense that we were in a liminal moment bridging two eras of work practices and technologies, and where nearly everything of interest represented...
View ArticleThe Internet Defense League rallies to Restore the Fourth
While some may be celebrating on Independence Day with sparklers, hotdogs and pool parties, some of the biggest names on the internet will join thousands of protesters across 100 cities to Restore the...
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