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    kenyatta

    With all of the Yahoo-Tumblr reporting still going on right now it surprises me how many writers still mistake Tumblr for a “blogging platform.”

    Anyone who has spent significant time on Tumblr knows that this whole “blog” thing is a front.

    Literally.

    70% of a given blog’s post traffic actually happens in the Dashboard. For some blogs, that percentage is even higher.

    This makes things like ranking a Tumblr blog’s popularity through site traffic fairly dubious.

    It also means that the value of Tumblr isn’t just in the original posts but the amplification of ideas through reblogs and the like.

    This becomes apparent when you dive into Union Metrics for Tumblr and break down any given post’s reblog tree:

    There’s probably an iceberg.gif of some sort that would work really well here.

    (btw, the numbers in that image are from an “official” blog that I run, not my personal blog.)

    #tumblr #blogging platform #media #tumblr analytics #union metrics #social media #tumblr metrics
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    1. 117
      parislemon

      Tumblr: still shipping through the madness. Fuck yeah.

      #tumblr #tech #ios #yahoo #startups #acquisition #crunchfund
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        parislemon reblogged staff
        “As always, everything that Tumblr is, we owe to this unbelievable community. We won’t let you down. Fuck yeah, David”
        — Tumblr Staff: News! 
        #tech #tumblr #yahoo #startups #acquisition #crunchfund
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          yahoo
          Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!

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          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 the fastest-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.

          — Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!

          * The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and is expected to close in the second half of the year. More information about the news can be found in the press release we issued today.

          #News
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          1. 21
            marksbirch

            “The Facebook IPO, One Year Later” via The Wall Street Journal

            Crazy to imagine that it has been one year since one of the most anticipated IPO’s in recent memory.  Turned out to be a better story than an investment.

            The Wall Street Journal #Tech #Facebook #IPO #investment #stock price #equity markets
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            1. 152
              rickwebb
              “Here’s a current example of the challenge we face,” he writes in the book’s prelude: “At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 14,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people. Where did all those jobs disappear? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?”
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              Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class - Salon.com

              I like Jaron Lanier a lot, but this illustration as some sort of evidence of the internet hollowing out the middle class is, forgive me for saying so, idiotic. A child could figure out where those jobs went. 

              1) Instagram SHOWS the photos. We have to include all of the people who work on the cloud that supports that. 

              2) Kodak made cameras and film. Cameras are still being made - even moreso. At the very least, we should include the current #1 camera maker’s employees. At this point, that’s apple. Fifty thousand employees. Pro rate it to only the apple devices that have cameras, ignoring their mac business. 30,000 employees. 

              3) The film business still exists. It was just lost to Fujichrome, who still makes film and has over 30,000 employees. This has nothing to do with the web, but rather something called “Globalization.” 

              The internet didn’t kill a single job in photography. There are more cameras now than ever. There are still tens of thousands of people making film. 

              Take the market cap of JUST these three companies - facebook, apple, fujifilm, and we’re looking at $500 billion market cap, and nearly 90,000 employees. 

              Think that’s unfair? Canon has nearly 200,000 employees. Nikon has 24,000. 10,000 more than Kodak. Shit, ZEISS has 24,000 employees. 

              Never mind every single camera in an android phone. 

              Those jobs went overseas, and they went to computer companies, Mr. Lanier. They still exist. The internet didn’t kill a single one of them. 
              Source: salon.com
              #Tech
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              1. 62
                marksbirch
                What Startups Are Like

                Here is a collection of uplifting and heartwarming words of encouragement from the most sage voices in the tech startup world as you begin your own entrepreneurial journey.

                • Throwing yourself off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. - Reif Hoffman
                • Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. - Elon Musk
                • Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood. - Sean Parker
                • Startups are hell. - Penelope Trunk
                • It’s like we’re married, but we’re not fucking. - Y Combinator founder via Paul Graham
                • I kept busy by thinking about how running that marathon was much like doing a startup. - Dan Martell
                • People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It’s actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you’re going to Toledo but you’re actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren’t driving well. - Ben Silbermann via Jason Shen
                • This is what running a startup is like…every day (cue video). - Jason Calacanis
                • Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly. - Paul Graham
                • In my tiredness, my scars, and my strength I have noticed that launching and running a start-up is a lot like war. - Ryan Wood
                • Running a startup is like having all the bad guys from Die Hard attack you, but you’re way more scrawny than Bruce Willis. - Aaron Levie
                #Tech #startups #entrepreneurship #founders #humor #LOL
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                  colinster reblogged caro
                  “As it keeps happening, however, I find it difficult to feel close to all my new friends. In the Midwest, you work to earn someone’s trust and keep it; here people trust you from the outset. It’s easy to get invited out in San Francisco, but it’s difficult to maintain meaningful relationships. However, friendships here are terrifically buoyant, with very little maintenance required. I will go weeks or months without seeing friends, yet I always get treated as a pal when we cross paths again. It reminds me that not feeling close is not the same as not being close. It was unsettling at first, but it’s a difference I now greatly appreciate.”
                  —

                  The Bold Italic - San Francisco

                  This is very true in both SF and NYC.

                  (via caro)
                  Source: thebolditalic.com
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                  1. 3
                    samir

                    These two tweets about the same post, a list of books you must read in your 20s got a surprisingly disproportionate amount of favs over retweets, which lead me to wonder - why?

                    Initially I was thinking that book readers are just afraid to retweet (I noticed this same phenomenon once in regards to a tweet about tattoos), then it occurred to me that they are probably just bookmarking this via the fav button to read later. I believe the average twitter user actually uses the fav this way, not like a so-called power user does which can have multiple meanings.

                    That is it for this post.

                    #Twitter #Favs #Favorites #Tweets #Retweets #Social Media #Hi
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                    1. 2,499
                      richkidsofinstagram

                      No man gets left behind. #californiabound by samanthaturple #petsandprivatejets

                      #dogs #pets #private jet
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