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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

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WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet.

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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco

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No doubt you are already tracking the construct many are calling the “Internet of Things” and you may have been pondering what this connected world might look like. To mark this seachange moment, O’Reilly Media introduces Solid Conference , scheduled for May 21-22 at Fort Mason in San Francisco.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2023

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There’s a tool for integrating generative art AI with the Krita open source drawing tool. GPTQ is an open source tool for quantizing models. Hem is an open source model for measuring generative AI hallucinations. All Bluetooth devices since roughly 2014 are vulnerable. Is this their time?

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

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Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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Even well-funded fintech companies are laying off workers

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We’re going on Day 5 with no power, heat or internet. As reported by Reuters , which cited The Financial Times : “ Twitter Inc is working to introduce payments on the social media platform and has begun applying for regulatory licenses. Who would have expected this to happen here? And not just once but twice in two years.

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21-22 May O’Reilly Solid Conference Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds

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Sebastopol, CA, February 26, 2014 —The “punctuated equilibrium” theory asserts that rapid bursts of change upend the leisurely pace of species stasis, creating events that result in new species and leave few fossils behind. Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation.

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

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Lewis and Dr. Rhonda Anderson of the ODNI National Intelligence Council will be moderating a panel of Dr Chris Reed (IARPA), Mr. Mark White (Deloitte) and myself on topics of the Internet of Things and its implication for intelligence. Government Executive Media Group. Director for Analysis, Open Source Center.

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