We would like to look at [Tumblr’s current advertising] and understand how we could introduce ads, in a very light ad load, where the impact is really created, because the ads really fit the users’ expectations and follow the form and function of the dashboard.
Source: Fast Company
Web pioneer reveals details of acquisition of blogging platform, as site’s 26-year-old founder tells staff: ‘Fuck yeah’. By Charles Arthur and Josh HallidayLatest story on Guardian just up
OY. So if Yahoo does mess up Tumblr (which I fully expect BTW given Flickr), what then? Do y’all have any ideas? Where do we go then with our gifs and links and such?
Google Fiber is coming to Austin, Texas
It’s official: Austin will be getting Google Fiber. There’s no word on how the service will be rolled out, or how long it will take, but we do know that some Austinites will be getting the gigabit internet, television, and telephone service in the future. So far Google has limited Fiber to Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KA, but no longer.
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Source: theverge.com
A handy six-step guide guide brought to you by Channing Kennedy, Colorlines.com’s self-appointed white male correspondent. (Seriously though, it’s brilliant. Read it.)
The man who got fired said something in a professional setting and Richards put a face and name to his statements. For some reason, a certain type of Internet folk think that the right to free speech includes the privilege of other people not saying mean things about you. The way this works in practice is that people on Reddit and 4Chan and Twitter will say terrible, harassing, and hateful things about Richards (and anyone who stands up for her) because they think she shouldn’t have said something.
the thing about this particular brand of low-key wealth is that it can lead to a false sense of self, on both a micro and a macro level. Consumption is still consumption even if it’s less conspicuous. Class may be harder to see here, but that doesn’t make it any less real. Mark Zuckerberg’s still a billionaire, even if he’s wearing a hoodie and jeans. And if you don’t feel or look rich, you don’t necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation — to culture, to the future, to each other — begins to disappear, too.
Like the environment at South by Southwest Interactive, where so many buzzed-about startups seem as if they could survive outside the festival bubble (but eventually don’t), the expensive, well-lit showroom space at CES can fool you into thinking you’re seeing spectacular technology that’ll soon arrive in your home.
This excellent comic by Sydney Padua, is about the life of Ada Lovelace, widely considered to be the world’s first computer programmer. Be sure to read the whole comic over at The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.
Pandora Asks Listeners to Share Their E-mails With Romney
[Crystal] Harris took a screenshot of the request and tweeted it with a one-word comment: #fail.
gross.
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Pandora Asks Listeners to Share Their E-mails With Romney
[Crystal] Harris took a screenshot of the request and tweeted it with a one-word comment: #fail.
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