10 posts and columns on Marco Arment

Apple Flatters Instapaper. Did It Kill It?

“Shit”

Instapaper developer Marco Arment, via Twitter, shortly after Apple announced “Reading List”, a new iOS 5 feature that appears to closely mirror the features in Arment’s popular iOS app. The silver lining, per Arment: “At least they’re hitting a lot of other apps too. Could be worse.” And then this: “Glad I’ve invested in social and editorial features. Not dead yet!”

Yahoo Buying Tumblr? “Categorically Untrue.”

in Media on February 9, 2009 at 3:41 pm PT

And they say bloggers don’t work! I had to get off my sickbed today to call David Karp, the CEO of Tumblr, and ask him if he really was in talks to sell his company to Yahoo, as Gawker/Valleywag reported. For the record, Karp says the report is “categorically untrue.”