Guess The Acquisition

[andrea_r]

Well, shoot.

On the up side, we haven't planned out the fall wordcamps we'll be at yet.

[Jeffro]

I have to give Ryan Duff credit.

http://twitter.com/ryancduff/statuses/15726739929

Considering the number of hosted Type services becoming available, and Matts love for typography, it would make perfect sense for Automattic to acquire one of them as they are platform agnostic. Since he has a Typekit sticker, would that be the first guess as to which one to acquire?

[C3MDigital]

I think it would be great if Automatic aquired Typekit. I am sure they could really improve the service. Right now Typekit is the best in terms of the amount of fonts offered but their support is lacking and the font delivery is sketchy sometimes (except for their enterprise customers). See my review of the service.

[Jeffro]

I asked Matt about Type Kit in the where's matt segment which will be airing on episode 101 today. You'll have to tune in to hear what he says.

[hakre]

Hmm those two are more connected since longer period of time via True Ventures (Round B for Automattic, Inc)

Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding
http://blog.typekit.com/2009/06/24/s...pekit-funding/
June 24, 2009

Tony Conrad of True Ventures leads a team of high-profile investors that also includes:

Evan Williams, Twitter CEO and Founder
Caterina Fake, Flickr and Hunch Founder
Matt Mullenweg, WordPress/Automattic Founder
Ron Conway, Angel Investor whose early investments include Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal and Twitter
Chris Sacca, Lowercase Capital
Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, Freestyle Capital

Highlighted by me. So that's no news. The Sticker on the laptop Ryan Duff twittered about is more or less doing marketing for something that's part of Matt's and his friends portfolio already. Maybe Ryan wants to make a wrong lead here? ^^

[D.i M.e]

It's name is: Plinky.

[Jeffro]

Hah, Plinky reminds me of another service where readers could give you topics they wanted to see the blog author write about. Can't remember it off the top of my head though. Interesting that Plinky pretty much went into hibernation mode and now they are back after being purchased. Considering they went into hibernation mode, I bet the purchase price was cheap.

[hakre]

And Plinky was Round A financed by Polaris as well. So this might be considered as already connected earlier as well. Not directly by Automattic but by those who financed Automattic (which looks more important to me in a business sense).