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Microsoft: look. We get it. We’re also excited about the Xbox one. We are. We truly are. So please. Stop injecting an Xbox one ads before EVERY SINGLE YOUTUBE VIDEO. You’re creating a health hazard because all we want to do is throw our laptops/tv/smartphones/iPads out a window.

Is this the time Dexter payed for escort services?

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It may seem strange that a site bringing together strangers from points around the globe can create a space for interactions that feel more real than those with people at school and at home, but that’s how it actually is.

Tumblr is so much more than a website at this point. It has grown into such a huge community, one that could be easily destroyed by the sort of reckless marketing that Yahoo must be about to unleash.

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-14-year-old Leah Goodman in “My Fear That Tumblr As We Know It Is Ending” on HuffPost Tech (via huffposttech)

My thoughts on the article, in response to the author:

First of all, it is a bit selfish to have such a gem of a place at one’s disposal and believe that no one else should have the right to enjoy it. Maybe those kids from school you so fear joining tumblr also are in need of a community. After all, you are also one of “those kids from school”. What makes you better than them? Also, if your parents ask you for your URL, you can easily give them a secondary tumblr. 

Second, it’s not like tumblr didn’t need the money. Everyone cries about “how much we love tumblr”—- you do, do you? Are you willing to spit up a quarter for every post? Or pay a monthly subscription? Hey, those servers aren’t being passed around like handouts. And those engineers, “community managers” and other staff aren’t doing this on spare time away from their day jobs. And the bandwidth that keeps your feed scrolling? Not free either. Tumblr’s been doing pretty good up until now, but without a solid source of revenue, there’s only a certain amount of money investors are willingly to blindly pledge to the company. 

So all in all, this was a pretty smart move for Tumblr. They got the cash, brand new infrastructure at their disposal and they keep the creative control of the product. More people are going to join? that was going to happen one way or another. At some point tumblr was going to be so big it just couldn’t be ignored. This fresh stream of people are necessary.

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pleatedjeans: via Yeah that same book also seems to condone incest, but hey! ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL!!

pleatedjeans:

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Yeah that same book also seems to condone incest, but hey! ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL!!

marissamayr: I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!  We promise not to screw it up.  Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going.  We will operate Tumblr independently.  David Karp will remain CEO.  The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve.  Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster. Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs.  With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world.  Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month.  On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day.  Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network.  The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%. In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love.  In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences.  The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience. As I’ve said before, companies are all about people.  Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing.  I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them.  That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met.  He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with.  His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.    Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day. http://yahoo.tumblr.com/

marissamayr:

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! 

We promise not to screw it up.  Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going.  We will operate Tumblr independently.  David Karp will remain CEO.  The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve.  Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs.  With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world.  Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month.  On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day.  Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network.  The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.

In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love.  In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences.  The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.

As I’ve said before, companies are all about people.  Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing.  I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them.  That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met.  He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with.  His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.   

Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/

And so it begins…

an open letter to yahoo

aiclan:

fix the tumblr video player and you can buy any fucking website you like

Karp is still going to be in control of Tumblr… We might just see some more integration between the two sites.

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ilovecharts: Things Yahoo! Has Made Better So I was on a slow Internet connection and was waiting for this image to load. Everything else loaded and this was still blank. After a while I thought there was an issue with the application. It took me a few minutes to realize the joke.

ilovecharts:

Things Yahoo! Has Made Better

So I was on a slow Internet connection and was waiting for this image to load. Everything else loaded and this was still blank. After a while I thought there was an issue with the application. It took me a few minutes to realize the joke.

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Kai ‘The Hatchet Hitchhiker’ Is Accused Of Murder Mark Memmott, npr.org Caleb “Kai” McGill­vary, who became an Inter­net sen­sa­tion in Feb­ru­ary with his col­or­ful account of how he bashed a man with a hatch­et to stop an attack on a util­i­ty work­er in Cal­i­for­nia, has been arrest­ed and charged with mur­der­in… This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we only crown heroes after their deaths. No time to fuck it up afterwards.

Kai ‘The Hatchet Hitchhiker’ Is Accused Of Murder
Mark Memmott, npr.org

Caleb “Kai” McGill­vary, who became an Inter­net sen­sa­tion in Feb­ru­ary with his col­or­ful account of how he bashed a man with a hatch­et to stop an attack on a util­i­ty work­er in Cal­i­for­nia, has been arrest­ed and charged with mur­der­in…

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we only crown heroes after their deaths. No time to fuck it up afterwards.

tastefullyoffensive: [via] aaaaaaaaaaaand texting while driving…

tastefullyoffensive:

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aaaaaaaaaaaand texting while driving…