Marco Arment
Marco Arment (born June 11, 1982 ) is an American iOS developer and web designer as well as a magazine author and editor. He lives in Westchester, New York , is the founder of Instapaper and co-founder of Tumblr .
Career
Arment attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania . Since it was founded in February 2007, he has been the chief developer of the Tumblr blogging platform . In September 2010 he left Tumblr to focus entirely on Instapaper, a bookmarking and reading service. Arment announced on April 25, 2013 that it had sold Instapaper to Betaworks.
Between November 2010 and December 2012 Arment produced the “Build and Analyze” podcast together with Dan Benjamin on the 5by5 Studios network.
In October 2012 Arment published The Magazine , which is an approximately weekly magazine developed exclusively for iOS.
In January 2013, his blog, which started in December 2006, reached 600,000 page views per month.
Web links
- Marco.org (English)
- An interview with Marco Arment on Planet Money (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Akhtar, Iyaz: 5 Questions with Tumblr's Marco Arment . Retrieved July 6, 2010.
- ↑ Nick Bilton : Leaving Tumblr for Instapaper . In: The New York Times . September 23, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
- ^ The next generation of Instapaper . In: marco.org . April 25, 2013. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
- ↑ About Marco.org . Archived from the original on October 12, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Arment, Marco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American web designer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1982 |