Tumblr is "The Easiest Platform To Share Yourself"

http://www.centernetworks.com/tumblr-howard-lindzon-interview

by transburgh • 19 years ago

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Tichy• 19 years ago

Can somebody give a short summary of what Tumblr is? The video is unwatchable for me - they should have used YouTube...

tumblr is like blogger, with less features. it helps people setup even more inane things called tumblelogs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblelog

MuddyMo• 19 years ago

It hosts tumbleblogs for free. What is a tumbleblog? At http://www.tumblr.com/faqs they say: "If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks [or] slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create.

A different take at this YC.news item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72996

bootload2• 19 years ago

"... It hosts tumbleblogs for free. ..."

In exchange for inferring anything they want enticing you with a low cost. In this case free. Owning and controlling your own data is going to be a big theme as the markets mature. Taking control of your own data makes it possible to control who can infer, how you license it.

Sure it's not free, it is inconvenient. But it means you have the ultimate say on who gets access. Your friends? acquaintances? even anonymous cowards? Probably the biggest advantage is the grubby marketers who ultimately sell by inference from your data can be held at bay.

rms• 19 years ago

Are you saying that tumbleblogs takes copyright over the content that people publish there? I thought that all the hosted blogging platforms let people own their own data.

zandorg• 19 years ago

I want to see a Web 2.0 startup called UrGrammr.com - just for the irony.

Tumblr is "The Easiest Platform To Share Yourself"

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