Saw two great Tumblr related quotes on David’s tumblelog today: “Tumblr has reinvigorated my love for having my own website. And having my own website is like being a homeowner. If your website is a MyFace profile, it’s like you live in a housing project” — jakoblodwick “i just subscribed to a shit load of […]
Continue reading "Thoughts about Tumblr"David and Marco flipped the switch and launched Tumblr 3.0 today. It’s a beautiful upgrade and the amount of new capabilities is truly stunning. (Yes, yes. I’m biased. I’m a user and an investor.) For a complete overview of Tumblr 3.0 check out David’s post here. My favorite things in v3.0 include: amazing new UI […]
Continue reading "Tumblr 3.0 is alive"One of the things I really like about Tumblr is the vibrant community. For example, Tumblepedia was created by Cameron Hunt. Cameron doesn’t work for Tumblr but he’s a big part of the community. Tumblepedia is a very helpful site with and also has some very cool Tumblr themes. I’m finding more and more tumblelog’s […]
Continue reading "The Tumblr community"I met David Karp last year. He was helping out a number of folks create, design and develop their web properties. We started spending more time earlier this year when we made our investment in Next New Networks. David had been helping Fred Seibert (cofounder of NNN) for years At that time David also showed […]
Continue reading "I’m now Tumbling"There are many reasons why some mobile apps take off and others do not. The team, user experience, timing, luck, network effects, speed and a lot more. This post isn’t meant to be an exhaustive analysis of what makes a great mobile app. But there are two things in particular that I’m fond of discussing […]
Continue reading "Does your app make us proud and/or smile ?"Last year, I wrote about the contrast I noticed in hiring practices in startups vs larger organizations. Specifically, some of the best startups in our portfolio hire straight out of their community and user base. Twitter, Tumblr, Stack Exchange and others do this often. (In the early days it was basically the unwritten rule at […]
Continue reading "Why don’t Microsoft alumni use their own products?"My new Tumblr shirt
Continue readingI don’t know that any other city could’ve made Tumblr the way that it is. I am a reflection of the city, too, because I grew up here. I don’t think Foursquare could’ve been built in any other city, or Etsy or Kickstarter. Reinventing economics around creativity works. Tumblr’s David Karp: Why I Love New […]
Continue readingDavid Karp’s $800 Million Art Project – Forbes I’m so proud of David and Tumblr. He has taught me so much.
Continue readingIn a dark sea of unreadable terms of service, Tumblr’s version rises to the surface as a life raft for users looking to get a grasp of what they are actually agreeing to when they use the blogging service. Terms & Conditions: Every company should copy Tumblr | Digital Trends (via rickwebb) The readability is […]
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