Today's main event: The Rumblr on Tumblr

There’s a rumblr on Tumblr..the new billion dollar man is coming to us from the tech world. Yahoo! is shelling out over $1 bil for the blogging service Tumblr.

Some users are concerned.. After all, it seems anything corporate Yahoo! gets its hands on fails or gets forgotten..

Also interesting, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr who dropped out of high school and made the blog service in his mom’s New York City apartment, said he wouldn’t sell as recent as a month ago. But money talked. Apparently talked very loud..

Get out while the gettin’s good, perhaps?

Either way, Karp is about to become the tycoon of the age.

The first of only a few since last century. Oh, and by the way, it was last century that Yahoo! bought another blogging service: Geocities. That failed too. And about two years ago, Yahoo! completely deleted all Geocities sites from its archives and database… leaving users to frantically try to save years of infancy of the internet.

So if Tumblr users think Yahoo! will care about providing a platform for independent thought to flourish and creative activity to occur, doubt that one..Big time.

Wow…
The day David Karp made Drudge…

David Karp’s Dilemma

Interesting article..
Will you leave Tumblr?

David Karp’s Dilemma

The billion dollar man,David Karp

But will this ensure Tumblr is the Geocities of the 21st century?

Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling

Anyone else a little uneasy about this? It’s like your parents planning to give you up for adoption.

In Obama style, maybe David Karp will announce that he found out about this in the newspapers when we did.

Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling

I don't know what i think of this.. Google and Facebook are competing for a slot on Obama's cabinet..

…why are they leaving David Karp out of it??

I don't know what i think of this.. Google and Facebook are competing for a slot on Obama's cabinet..

Mr Karp, are you willing to answer a few things? 1) what do you think of SOPA and other related attempts to censor? 2) what do you think of Google’s new policy to censor their blogger accounts? 3) will Tumblr ever be censored? and 4) do bloggers own their own content on Tumblr?

Something I asked David Karp tonight on Tumblr. Hoping for a response…..

*As long as there is no censorship, I could care less about downtime…………

Tumblr is allowing people to pay to promote posts.

Which is interesting and perhaps good marketing.. though I am not sure how many teenage girls will want to promote their odd cat animated gifs. Nonetheless.. Tumblr is trying it out. 

So while Google and Twitter plan to censor posts, I have only to wonder if David Karp will eventually travel down the same 21st century path of censorship too.. and if he does will he allow the pay-per-posts to remain unscathed? And……… if I pay for a post I expect it to be found in a workable search and… more importantly, I don’t expect Tumblr to crash.

Are we paying to own the post? …or is it owned by Tumblr and we just pay them to not give it back?

Inquiring and somewhat broke minds want to know.

Oh...that Tumblr taste of victory.. when

…a porn-bot ‘reblogs’ your post just to direct visitors to their site. I’d compile a list of ‘don’t go tos’ but there would be just to many judging from how many people I blocked.

TUMBLR NOW VALUED AT $800 MIL

All the bots are raising their glasses

TUMBLR NOW VALUED AT $800 MIL

Anyone else being 'liked' by a ton of fake Tumblr accounts *(some that actually look real until you compare them with a ton more than look the 'same' real as those?)

A NOTE TO DAVID KARP: Please let us be able to start to reply to our replies on blogs hosted here.

It would help. I think most people would enjoy it. Though if you tried it Tumblr would be down for 78 hours…

I suppose David Karp can be proud: Tumblr must be doing something right

Sure, it suffers more down hours than Blogger.. But then why, I ask, is Blogger copying Tumblr’s successful points?

MORE: How To Make Your Blogger Look More Like Tumblr

David Karp

zainyk said:

Stop posing for magazine covers, stop taking pictures of your dinner and your moped, stop telling us inane anecdotes about what your girlfriend found funny about a sock or some such shit, AND FIX YOUR FUCKING WEBSITE.

 I have to say: Agreed. The basic database structure of Tumblr seems quite awry.. Even tonight on here, and I am sure lots of other Tumblr based sites, posts are appearing without reason and vanishing without warning. Sure, Tumblr tweeted that the fix is occurring.. But how many more problems before the massive increase in traffic the site has been enjoying leaves for the next thing—that works?

A reason for few posts this weekend: I was a little concerned about the Tumblr security breach

But Tumblr responded to the worrying security issue:

We’re triple checking everything and bringing in outside auditors to confirm, but we have no reason to believe that anything was compromised. We’re certain that none of your personal information (passwords, etc.) was exposed, and your blog is backed up and safe as always. This was an embarrassing error, but something we were prepared for.

The fact that this occurred at all is still unacceptable, and we’ll be seriously evaluating and adjusting our processes to ensure an error like this can never happen again.

I like how Tumblr responded.. Every time something occurs, they lose in a point in my book. But something like this occurs and they gain them all back. I liked their humility. 

I’m also happy they say the blogs are backed up.

I’d still like to see Mr. Karp come up with a Windows version for us NON MAC users for a backup, of course.. Unless maybe it’s just a sign I should  buy a MAC.

A reason for few posts this weekend: I was a little concerned about the Tumblr security breach

That just sort of turns my stomach, the thought of ever having any brand linking on the dashboard taking people out of Tumblr. Anyone with a blog on Tumblr can promote content in their posts, can put any ads they want on the blog. The idea of ever forcing them to put something on their blog — the spirit of Tumblr is that you are totally in control down to every line of code. The idea of changing that really turns our stomach

David Karp, on forced advertising on Tumblr during an interview. Thank you David Karp. Tumblr users appreciate it.

If Tumblr is free, how does it make money?

That question, along with many others, answered by David Karp ..

The answer on Tumblr profits, if you’re interested, David Karp said:

There are a couple things we are excited about: promoting content and marketplaces.

The marketplaces are awesome to us because they allow us to cut big checks to our guest developers. People who are creating original themes for our community can sell them to users. The community is thrilled because they are exclusive, unique, customizable and beautiful. They were hustling to try and sell them on their own. Designers are now selling them on Tumblr, and these brilliantly talented designers are quitting their gigs at design firms to design themes for Tumblr.

Users are also paying for promotion in our directories

While I may not truly understand it, the Coal Speaker is on Tumblr. So I have always wondered how Tumblr is making money from this whole thing..

And it also makes me want Tumblr to finally come up with a backup ability for non-Mac users!

If Tumblr is free, how does it make money?