How to Buy a Social Network Without Screwing It Up
Flickr was an epic fail, but people still love Instagram—some pointers for Yahoo's CEO as she tries to not screw up Tumblr.
Flickr was an epic fail, but people still love Instagram—some pointers for Yahoo's CEO as she tries to not screw up Tumblr.
That's how much Yahoo! paid for Tumblr. But what's it really worth?
The White House just got itself a tumblr page, and it's accepting GIF submissions now. Here are a few suggestions for the inaugural entry.
Mark Zuckerberg may be King off Social Media, but Karp and company may now be the Prince.
If nothing else, we expect politicians to be smooth talkers, but apparently they can’t speak without the comfort of absurd props.
Oh my, have you seen MySpace's fresh promo video? I think the veteran social network is finally sick of 187th place on the Internet. Now, the site is offering something I don't think many other networks have planned or thought of. Myspace is placing
"I got a couple of New Year's Eve photos that were way off the charts. They'd probably give PETA a heart attack," Will Zweigart recalls. "Literally just like, huge lines of coke and the cat's near them with bottles of champagne in the background
Not far from the paper's shiny headquarters, the Times still keeps its morgue, the clippings archive that in the olden days was Google before Google, and where now newspaper clippings and photos - actual, physical things - go to die. Or to get resurr…
One of the supposed way cool things about social media is the newfound ability of very large entities in the world -- from pop stars to multinational corporations -- to interact with every average goofball with internet access on a supposed one-to-on…
A journey through Tumblr’s plentiful population of self-harm blogs is morbidly transfixing. You can, and I did, get lost in a sea of ima…
Maybe you recall hearing about the PROTECT-IP Act, the $200 million Hollywood-funded Senate bill that aims to stop online piracy by doing things like giving copyright owners and the government the ability to hijack websites and censor search engine r…
Vice's 2009 interview with David Karp. "We checked the domain name for 'Tumbler.com' and it was this mom and pop store for tumbler glasses. We thought it'd be pretty fun one day, when we got enough money, to acquire their whole business."