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[dalliance]

In the same spirit as the crassly overpriced acquisition of Instagram by Facebook comes Yahoo's $1.1billion purchase of Tumblr - an organisation that took in $15m in advertising revenue last year.

So a valuation coming in at roughly 80 years worth of turnover. I'll give Melissa Meyer 12 months tops.

[ursus arctos]

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The guy who started Tumblr dropped out of ursus minor's high school.

[Femme Folle]

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I don't believe the assurances by Yahoo that they won't change anything. I'll give it 6 months until the first ads appear.

[Incandenza]

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Yahoo has also completely changed the look of Flickr, to much dismay.

[Gerontophile]

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ursus arctos wrote: The guy who started Tumblr dropped out of ursus minor's high school.

With or without a parachute?

(What is Tumblr, and why can't they spell?)

[Femme Folle]

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Gerontophile wrote:

The guy who started Tumblr dropped out of ursus minor's high school.

With or without a parachute?

Obviously with.

[G-Man]

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Gerontophile wrote:

The guy who started Tumblr dropped out of ursus minor's high school.

(What is Tumblr, and why can't they spell?)

Isn't the answer obvious?

[NHH]

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Yahoo recently bought Astrid, a 4m user task management / to-do app, and promptly closed it. Why the fuck would you do that?

[ursus arctos]

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Perhaps because you only bought it for IP that you want to incorporate into one or more of your other offerings.

[Furtho]

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Does anyone with a Tumblr know why the browser widgets for queuing new content seem to have stopped working?

[OnceGaza]

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Why not?
Capitalism will always do this.

[Furtho]

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Fair point.

[beak]

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Someone ought to do something about this "capitalism" lark.

[Furtho]

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Agreed. But in the meantime... Tumblr widget...?

[OnceGaza]

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Please.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Gerontophile wrote: (What is Tumblr, and why can't they spell?)

It's a blogging platform — it's halfway between Twitter and WordPress.

Presumably tumbler.com was already taken.