
Did that gif remind anyone else of myspace?
Yahoo! has "promised not to screw it up" after agreeing to acquire cat'n'porn blogging site Tumblr for about $1.1bn. The Purple Palace is sticking to a hands-off approach to try to keep its square taint off the cool vibe of GIF-heavy Tumblr and stop users abandoning it in droves. Yahoo! said the blogging site would continue …
"1 billion was hard to come by and was actually real money. You could buy nuclear submarines with that etc."
Isn't if funny how all other tech gets better and cheaper in real terms (cf pooters, tellies, phones, cars), but military kit gets more and more expensive in real terms, and at such a rate that any performance improvement is overshadowed by the cost saving measures ("Let's leave out guns an bombs, they'll be using ray guns by the time this thing reaches service") or the fact that we can't even afford one of the new shiney toys (like aircraft carriers).
I dunno but have a blast from back when Acorns existed:
Twitbook is stupid. But at least for their owners there is the Knowledge BBC and other broadcasters promote it almost every radio program, also many big companies.
Tumblr should be called "Tumbleweed". They have flushed $1B down the drain. Probably even if they got both parts of Twitbook $1B is throwing money away.
They could have done something with Geocities, they owned it and it was reasonably popular. Not sure how they could have made money out of it without annoying the users, but then that's true for Twitbook, Flickr, Tumblr reddit, etc