Tumblr’s Storyboard was a daily read for many Mashable editors, so we’re offering to publish some of its planned stories in the wake of its shut-down.+1 for Mashable.
Pure class right there.
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A second source close to Mashable confirms that executives have been working on a deal with CNN. This source speculates that the deal is 80% likely to close.
We don’t know if the deal has closed yet, nor do we know price. Obviously, it may fall apart. This report, for example, won’t help negotiations. We only know that Mashable executives are preparing for a sale.
This has actually been rumored for a while — Reuters’ Felix Salmon suggested this was going to happen back in March, though there’s no word if the $200 million acquisition price he suggested will actually pan out. Word is that some of the site’s sections would merge into CNN proper.
CNN rumored to be acquiring Mashable: Could two media organizations be more made for one another? Possibly not, says the man in the teal shirt — and the buyout could reach $200 million, which is smaller (but nearing the scale) of last year’s AOL/HuffPo merger. Brian Stelter did a piece on this story, too, which CNN is currently denying.
I think that the backlash against their support was a lot more swift and severe than they’d anticipated. Their initially glib ‘lol, whatever’ response was replaced by ‘oh god, please stop punching us in the quarterly financial report!’ real fast.Mashable chief architect Chris Heald • Discussing how he received a call from GoDaddy regarding his decision to move 50+ domains to a different service in a boycott of their now-reversed stance on SOPA. Apparently he wasn’t alone. So the real question, then, is whether it’s too late for GoDaddy to get all those customers back. Based on the fact that Heald isn’t budging, and the fact that they called two days before Christmas, signs aren’t looking good for the company. source (via • follow)
Ben Parr was offered an enormous cash payout as long as he stays until 2012. One source said Parr was offered a compensation package, on top of salary, worth more than $100,000 and less than $300,000.
Clearly, something changed. Parr originally planned to stay on until July of next year, according to Business Insider’s take on his firing. “One source told us that the fact we knew about Parr’s payout was a breach of contract,” that article says. “So there’s a chance the agreement was shot down or Parr and Mashable couldn’t reach a new agreement.” Read the linked article above — it notes how Mashable is gunning for a HuffPo-style sale, and how, beyond Parr, turnover has been super-high in recent months.
Holy crap. An update to our last post on Ben Parr. He got FIRED from Mashable. Wow. That’s gonna be a good bit of drama this week. Hope all sides are holding up well. (thanks Matt for pointing it out)
Ben Parr is a technology journalist, web entrepreneur and aspiring world changer. He is best-known as the former editor-at-large of Mashable where he focused on technology trends, the companies behind them, and the intersection of technology, media and society. Ben’s 3+ year career with Mashable began when he joined as a writer in August 2008. Ben is currently working on a yet-to-be-announced project.The bio of Mashable editor-at-large Ben Parr, who All Things Digital confirmed this evening is leaving the site. He’s one of the site’s most-well-known personalities, so this is big in the blogging world.
So, we kept a little mum on yesterday’s big changes with Facebook, in part because our day was extra-packed, but we gotta say … wow, that seems to have lived up to the hype. (We were skeptical the night before, esp. after Ben Parr’s fawning article on Mashable) The new Timeline feature will take some getting used to, but the big difference this time is that Facebook isn’t just pushing pixels around (which seemed like the modus operandi for most of their redesigns) but actually reinventing things. And, as a Washington Post Company employee when not blogging here, I just gotta say … wow. The Social Reader, built from Trove’s humble beginnings, is easily the best piece of software the Post has ever created. Seriously, you should check it out. — Ernie @ SFB
But seriously … I am not kidding.
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Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]
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» Has the iPhone 5 been compromised? Last spring, an Apple employee lost the iPhone 4 prototype at a bar, and it seems they’re at it again. The yet-to-be-released iPhone 5 was reportedly lost at a bar in San Francisco this July. Because Apple contacted local police, we suspect that the lost phone is important, but there is no proof yet. Yet. Meanwhile, we’re typing away on our 3G-enabled MacBook Pro prototype.
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