Summary: The Wall Street Journal reported on August 12 that Verizon is selling social media & blogging platform Tumblr to Automattic. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg answered questions on PostStatus, outlining plans to migrate off of Verizon, move Tumblr's backend to WordPress, and support the same APIs on both WordPress.com & Tumblr. Mullenweg noted that this is "by far the largest investment or acquisition Automattic has ever made." In this episode, we discuss the implications for Tumblr, WordPress, and Automattic.
