11 posts and columns on Stewart Butterfield

Twitter Acquires Social Summary Tool Summify

in Social on January 19 at 9:33 am PT

Twitter has acquired Summify, a small start-up that smartly aggregates links shared by users’ friends on social networks.
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Bloom.io Raises Funding for Playful Data Visualization

in Social on April 11, 2011 at 2:44 pm PT

Bloom.io today announced it has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Betaworks, SV Angel and Stewart Butterfield. The company plans apps that aspire to display “new ways of seeing what’s important.”

What's Next From Kevin Rose? A Social and Location-Aware Mobile App From His New Incubator, Milk

in Social on April 4, 2011 at 10:45 am PT

What exactly Kevin Rose is working on is still murky. In fact, it’s milky: His grand new start-up, Milk, is actually an incubator for mobile apps. But the boy geek says he’s ready to grow up and be CEO of something.

Pig-Nibbling Inside 11 Giant Imaginations: The Latest Glimpse of Glitch

in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:44 am PT

Here is some video of Glitch–the new game that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is in the midst of creating from the Vancouver HQ of his Tiny Speck start-up. Butterfield showed me the latest iteration of the game, which takes place inside the minds of 11 giants. Including, oddly enough, a pig that will give up some meat if you nibble it, but walks merrily away after.

Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game Start-Up, Glitch

in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:40 am PT

Last Friday, BoomTown dropped in on Stewart Butterfield–now ensconced in Vancouver, Canada–to see what the Flickr co-founder has been up to since decamping from Yahoo a while back. Yahoo bought the innovative British Columbia-based photo-sharing service in 2005 for upward of $25 million. Now it seems Butterfield is back where he started, since Flickr was actually initially part of an original gaming project called Game Neverending. Apparently, it never did end, and now there is Glitch. Almost, that is.

Weekend Update 5.03.09–Special Musical Chairs Edition

in News on May 2, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

If there was an over-arching theme for this last week on All Things D, it would have to be musical chairs. Brand new MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta started things off Monday with his first day on the job. He was joined by new COO and former AOL exec Mike Jones and new chief product officer and former Sling Media exec Jason Hirschhorn.
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Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield and Chief Architect Henderson Working on Stealth Start-Up

in News on April 30, 2009 at 2:48 am PT

Yesterday, several Flickr engineers posted news of their layoffs from the Yahoo photo-sharing unit on Twitter, which caused GigaOm’s Om Malik to notice that Flickr architect Cal Henderson was also no longer on its About page. According to several sources I spoke to, Henderson was actually not laid off at Yahoo, but is leaving to start a new company–in the social-gaming arena, I am told–with Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield. He and several other of the original core development team for Flickr transitioned out or have been transitioning out for quite some time, sources said.
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iPhone Mania

in News on July 15, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Who's Next to Go at Yahoo as Reorg Looms?

in News on June 19, 2008 at 2:52 am PT

My special BoomTown Yahoo tip inbox is filling up fast this week from Yahoo employees–who, by the way, seem to like to use Gmail as their secret one–all buzzing about the next shoe to drop. That clodhopper would be, of course, which major exec will leave the troubled Internet company, all due to a major reorg that is about the hit the company within the next weeks. After the recent departure of Network division EVP Jeff Weiner and Chief Data Officer Usama Fayyad–along with the flashier exit of Flickr’s Co-Founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake–several sources tell BoomTown that Search and Advertising Technology group EVP Qi Lu is the next on his way out too.