Bluesky announces $100M raise... from a year ago!
Great Scott! Bluesky raised $100M Series B from Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation and True Ventures. Why they waited a year to tell anyone about it is anyone's guess. 👸🏻
Windsurf drops credit-based pricing for "industry standard" quotas; users revolt
Pricing token consumption is hard. People hate change. Replacing an intuitive pricing model with a less precise one makes people mad. But that's what Windsurf has done: What's changing: No more credits. Your Free, Pro, or Teams plan includes a usage allowance that refreshes automatically on a daily and weekly basis. For the majority of users, this quota will be enough to fully cover all agent...
Cove is joining Microsoft
Cove has announced that they've been acquihired by Microsoft: If you were a Cove user: What this means for Cove As part of this transition, the entire Cove team has accepted offers to join Microsoft, and the Cove product will be wound down on April 1. Existing users can continue using Cove until then, but we are no longer accepting new sign-ups. We've built a data export feature so you can take...
Digg shuts down again — succumb to bots!
Well, that was fast. Digg only just relaunched — but now will be shutting down because they couldn't fend off the SEO bots: When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by...
To hard paywall or not — that is the question!
According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, "hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance." Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days? Quoting the report: Median D35 conversion sits at 10.7% for hard paywalls. Freemium is 2.1%. That gap alone should make...
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down
Bluesky CEO @arcalinea has announced she is stepping down, transitioning to Chief Innovation Officer. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as the board seeks a permanent replacement, staying active in his role as partner at True Ventures.
