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kentauros

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14. Here's the wiki on it:

Reply to SoapBox (Reply #13)

Mon May 20, 2013, 07:51 AM

May 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr

I've never liked Tumblr anyway. It's yet another image-intensive blogging/social-networking site. I'll be sticking with WordPress. Their software is easier to use and most of their blogs are about the blogging part (i.e., the written word) versus a never-ending stream of images.

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Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion [View all] DonViejo May 2013 OP

Poor, doomed tumblr. (nt) Posteritatis May 2013 #1

Why the gloom & doom? Look what Yahoo did with Flickr and del.icio.us DotGone May 2013 #2

The question is whether Mayer is smarter than her predecessors. Xithras May 2013 #20

"Tumblr would continue to operate largely as an independent business, the people said." Lordquinton May 2013 #3

That "largely" provides a whole lot of wiggle room. (nt) Posteritatis May 2013 #4

i love tumblr blueknight May 2013 #5

Seems like a windfall for sombody. AAO May 2013 #6

Good. Yahoo is a firewall against Google's domination of our Internet lives. onehandle May 2013 #7

Wow, haven't seen an explicit defense of oligopoly in awhile. (nt) Posteritatis May 2013 #8

How does this lead to higher prices for a free service? onehandle May 2013 #9

You do know there are outcomes other than "Yahoo buys Tumblr" and "feed Google," right? Posteritatis May 2013 #12

No one entity has ever dominated technology forever Yavin4 May 2013 #15

Google is the first of those companies to have access to the entirety of world communications. onehandle May 2013 #17

IBM had that same access. Yavin4 May 2013 #18

Err... Xithras May 2013 #19

ONE BILLION! DontTreadOnMe May 2013 #10

Yep. All it takes is for someone to come with a different technology. Yavin4 May 2013 #16

That is alot to spend for moody emo kid pictures Sen. Walter Sobchak May 2013 #11

and? SoapBox May 2013 #13

Here's the wiki on it: kentauros May 2013 #14