Tag Archives: Michael Adams

Firefox 3 Saved, Cookies Still Too Tasty By Default

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Lloyd

On Sunday, Mozilla developers reverted a change to cookie handling that was going to make web mashup and widget developers’ lives horrible in Firefox 3 — it would likely have been a disaster for Firefox and Mozilla. Thank you team … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged Asa Dotzler, Dan Witte, Daniel Veditz, Firefox, Firefox 3, Firefox 3b3, Jesse Ruderman, Jo Hermans, Matt Mullenweg, Mike Beltzner, Mozilla, Niall Kennedy, Raanan Bar-Cohen, web privacy, Web Security, WordPress.com | 2 Comments

We Raised $29.5 Million!

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Lloyd

Matt, now Ma.tt, and Toni have respectively written “Act Two” and “Automattic fundraising” about us, Automattic, raising a $29.5 million USD round of financing today. Our friend Om has a head start on journalistic coverage with “WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M“.
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Posted in Automattic | Also tagged 38 Studios, Automattic, Barry Abrahamson, Blog Talk Radio, Bloggers, Blogging, closed funding round, CNN, Curt Schilling, Fox, Gawker Media Gizmodo Live, Giga omni, I Can Has Cheezburger, Matt Mullenweg, NY Times, Om Malik, open source participants, People, Raanan Bar-Cohen, series b, startup funding, Team Automattic, Time, Toni Schneider, WordPress, WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Work | 5 Comments

WordPress Google Summer of Code Students!

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Lloyd

Ten students are being paid $4500 USD each to working on WordPress this summer!

Posted in Open Source, WordPress | Also tagged Andrew Nelson, Andy Skelton, Automattic, Bernardo Santos, Brian Layman, Celeste Lyn Paul, Corey Shaffer, Dio Hulse, Google Summer of Code, Google Summer of Code 2007, gsoc, GSoC2007, Keith Bowes, Leslie Hawthorn, Luc Bizeul, Matthias Bauer, Mike Grouchy, Nikolay Bachiyski, Open Source, Peter Westwood, Robert Deaton, Ronald Heft Jr | 10 Comments