Yahoo buys Tumblr
Hot off the news today. http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/yahoo-buys-tumblr-blogging-site-for-dollar11b-1 Yahoo buys Tumblr. I'm surprised.
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From latest reports Yahoo couldnt organise a drink-up in a brewery right now. Bye bye tumblr!
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Tumblr is busy panicking over the rumours, but last I looked, it hadn't been confirmed. As Tumblr has a lot of fandom people, the word "geocities" is being thrown around rather bitterly. What a pain....
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What really surprised me was the price tag. From what I know of Yahoo they have had difficulty making a go of quite a few things so why go for such a high price item? I would think buy something a...
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LifeAhead - ah ha ha ha! To be honest, I'm no huge fan of Tumblr to begin with. I find it horribly non-intuitive and hate that unless you have Disqus installed there's no real easy way to have a...
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I saw this on the news this morning when I was working out at the gym on the treadmill ... $1.1 Billion and the guy started the site in his mothers apartment? Boy oh boy, what a payout. Wished I had...
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Ironically, this could lead to a bunch of tumblr employees (unexpectedly) working from home :-)
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I would have never thought that a big brand would buy a porn site. (Porn blogs are Tumblr's number one source of referrals) Anyone remember when Squidoo had an actual porn category?
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Good bye Tumblr! For all its garish looks and over-use of animated gifs, Geocities was a great site to cut your teeth on as an aspiring webmaster. Then of course Yahoo came along, stripped back the...
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jughead wrote:nice one LifeAhead. The name is probably very appropriate now!Very apt!Having experienced the transition when Yahoo took over Associated Content and turned it into YCN - must be close to...
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I can't see Yahoo doing anything but ruin another site. Good piece on this at...
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Interesting article. So basically they reason they have bought Tumblr is to get access to content marketing.... which is basically what affiliate marketers have been doing for years, and pretty much...
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But Yahoo already did that witwhen they bought Associated Content and turned it into Yahoo Voices. I'm not sure what the difference is with Tumblr, except they just spent a fortune on a risky gamble...
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poddys wrote: jughead wrote: nice one LifeAhead. The name is probably very appropriate now!Very apt!Having experienced the transition when Yahoo took over Associated Content and turned it into YCN -...
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poddys wrote:But Yahoo already did that witwhen they bought Associated Content and turned it into Yahoo Voices. I'm not sure what the difference is with Tumblr, except they just spent a fortune on a...
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