Teenagers really are over Facebook. In a deep report published on Tuesday, Pew Research explains that teenagers departing the social network's blue confines are looking for something more... authentic. Which, ironically, was the initial draw of Facebook, and has become something of a calling card for Tumblr and Twitter. Somewhere, Marissa Mayer is smiling.
Every single one of Tumblr's 178 employees will get money from the $1.1 billion Yahoo deal, which means that if the site hadn't let go of its three editorial team members last month, they too would have received $371,000 — each.
Kids, listen up: don't start dropping out of high school just because the Tumblr CEO David Karp, who just sold his Internet company to Yahoo for $1.1 billion, had neither a high school nor a college degree.
All this crying over how much this Yahoo acquisition will ruin Tumblr is a predictable part of the cycle of tech company acquisitions these days — no matter how smart or dumb the buy — and says nothing about how the impending marriage will do.
Yahoo! and Tumblr just officially announced their engagement to the world and they're already playing damage control. They're doing their best to calm your fears of Yahoo! digging its long, purple claws into Tumblr and ruining it forever.
Now that Tumblr is a Yahoo! property, just like the beleaguered Flickr, some are predicting the service's death already and the deal hasn't even been officially announced yet. Those people are dramatic teens who use Tumblr but that's still a pretty big deal.
That rumored $1 billion offer from Yahoo! to buy Tumblr? It's looking like a forgone conclusion at this point. But things are messy and speculative and there are already doomsayers predicting this is a bad idea for everyone involved. But mostly they're predicting it's bad for Yahoo!
There's another $1 billion acquisition rumor floating around. Yahoo, reportedly, is interested in coming to some sort of deal to acquire Tumblr.
Is a Tumblr that collects instances of groups curiously lacking women the best way to change a deeply rooted problem or is it just making the case for tokenism?
Slaughterhouse 90210 is that Tumblr you may have heard of, created and run by Maris Kreizman, who, four years ago, came up with the high-low brilliance of offering daily screengrabs from popular TV shows paired with literary quotes.
Because they can't broadcast the actual games, ESPN struggles every year to find new and exciting ways to cover March Madness. This year they started a Tumblr and it is a sad, corporate attempt to beg for attention — and some LOLs.
The term "blog" may be outdated, at least according to this Google Trends chart being passed around today.
Tumblr founder David Karp lives a "spartan" life with his $1.6 million 1,600 square-foot Williamsburg loft outfitted a restaurant-grade kitchen, explains Forbes's Jeff Bercovici in this month's cover story. Wait, what?
The new site is fetch like totally a regulation hottie and soon to be Spring Fling Queen in the tumblr world. And we, like, talked to the girl that invented it, you know what we mean?
For readers who don't obsessively comb through dozens of music blogs every day, we put together a guide to this year's musical micro trends. None were nominated for Grammys.
Is this wacky picture and the borderline offensive message accompanying it (left) showing up on your Tumblr? Then, yes, you've been hacked.
Following New York City's experience with a devastating, city-changing hurricane, many have drawn some parallels between New Orleans after Katrina and post-Sandy New York this week. Perhaps nothing drives that point home better than the moving Tumblr Nola to New York.
Inspired by Edwards' popular Tumblr, Fake Science, his recent book Fake Science 101 follows in the ever-growing trend of parodies and blogs-to-books. "Science is the beginning of a conversation," he writes. We talked to him to find out what the fake stuff can teach us about the real—in science, of course, but also in the broader book world.
Twitter's been kind of distant lately, what with all their new rules and everything, and now they're sort-of breaking up with Tumblr. But Tumblr doesn't want them to break up because they've been together for so long, and this was so out of the blue, and it's all very complicated right now.
Until yesterday, "thinspo," the cutesy term for images of too-thin people and mantras that glorify eating disorders, was something to be erased from the Internet. Now, new research indicates otherwise. But talking to experts on the subject, it's hard to know the best way to tackle it.
The site, if you haven't seen it, offers feminist statements over pictures of Gosling looking hot and bothered. But the goal, at least initially, was just to make a silly study guide.
Now this is a Tumblr we want to see carry on for a while, though it looks like a lot of work: A companion volume to the enigmatic and wildly popular @Horse_ebooks Twitter account, explaining the origin of the non-sequitur comments we love.
Sometimes when people do very impressive things during their Internet leisure time it gets them real, paid jobs.
While the Internet has had a good time making fun of these rich kid Instagram photos, haters should be careful. These postings are emblematic of the entire medium we all use.
Obviously, you like to look at pictures of cats (otherwise you wouldn't be on the Internet), but if you need your cat pictures to fit a very specific niche, try out this Tumblr devoted only to old time photos of the Siamese variety.
A week after its fifth birthday, Tumblr got hit with a grownup copyright infringement lawsuit—and a gnarly one at that.
Today in publishing and literature: The release date of Joe Posnanski's authorized Joe Paterno biography gets moved up, a book based on a Tumblr that's actually worth buying, and Uggie the dog continues to extend his 15 minutes of canine fame.
Starting on May 2, advertisers will be able to buy the privilege of slapping their logo on the Tumblr dashboard.
If you look closely, among the shopping and fashion pins, Pinterest has lots and lots of porn -- it is an Internet site, after all.
After hearing all that talk about Pinterest as the social network for ladies, we wondered what kind of stuff men did on the Internet, especially since we found out there's a whole male sharing culture happening on here.
The Tumblrization of Pinterest is now complete, with "thinspo" bloggers setting up camp on the site, as we suspected they might after Tumblr announced its crackdown on these sorts of self-harm blogs.
Beyond "girly" pinboards showcasing the latest fashion trends, there's a silly side to Pinterest, which has taken a few notes from the Internet's silliest platform, Tumblr.
Today Tumblr announced a new policy against "self-harm" blogs, leading us to a dark side of Tumblr we never wanted to know existed.
Also: Paul Auster is fighting with the prime minister of Turkey, a comprehensive guide to the best literary Tumblrs, and Billy Ray Cyrus is the latest celebrity to benefit from Amazon Publishing's largesse.
As Pinterest positions itself to be the new Tumblr -- or better yet, Facebook -- it's about time we figured out what exactly this new-ish social network does.
Now that our hip President has joined Instagram, we have some guesses for the next up-and-coming social media frontiers that the Obama 2012 campaign will try out to spread the Obama word.
A delightful new Tumblr has paired real-life libertarian Ron Paul with fictional libertarian Ron Swanson from NBC's Parks and Recreation
Tumblr -- the land of teenage girls photographing their outfits in a mirror, the home of the instant meme and the world of very very pretty photographs of all things loved by hipsters -- is a pretty fun place.
As hot as Ryan Gosling is, his bubble, like all fragile soapy wonders, must pop -- that's just how bubbles work.
With recent investments in Tumblr and Square, serial entrepreneur and fun-to-watch billionaire Sir Richard Branson is galloping into the American startup world.
A new tumblr getting attention today asks the question on every Brooklyn-goer's mind: Halloween or Williamsburg?
While the Republicans are playing social media catch-up on Twitter and Facebook, Obama is capitalizing on a trendier Internet medium: Tumblr.
A slew of investors are backing the blogging service
Writer Marco Arment airs his grievances with the site
Geeks are apparently fashionable now
Some etiquette for journalists on how to act on the Internet
The new Tumblr turned some heads today. Kind of like Hilary does when she whispers
With the help of an app, a blog, lots of media coverage, a man recovers his stolen laptop
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