Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• December 28th, 2007

  Netscape is dead; long live Mozilla.

  Tom just posted the official announcement: As of February 1, 2008, Netscape will no longer exist as a product-producing entity. “AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given [...]

• October 25th, 2007

  Facebook is not worth 15 billion dollars

  ($240,000,000 / (0.016 + x)) != $15,000,000,000 Attention world: Microsoft did not pay $240 million simply for a 1.6% stake in Facebook. They paid $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook and the privilege of being Facebook’s only ad supplier for visitors from outside the United States. So unless you’re valuing that privilege at [...]