I get a bang out of being a top contributor on Tumblr’s Tech thread, as a lowly, lowly soloist in the midst of The Atlantic, The Verge, Fast Company, CNet, and IBM’s Smarter Planet. Curation is increasing in relevance. I think I need to start a regular salon on curation in NYC. Any interest?
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I get a bang out of being a top contributor on Tumblr’s Tech thread, as a lowly, lowly soloist in the midst of The Atlantic, The Verge, Fast Company, CNet, and IBM’s Smarter Planet.

Curation is increasing in relevance. I think I need to start a regular salon on curation in NYC. Any interest?

Deepthinking is Less enthralled with tumblr these days

deepthinking:

I haven’t really grown tired of it but I now have an iPad and find two aspects of it keeping me away from tumblr these:

  1. The iPhone app is great but they really need to step up the game and get an iPad/tablet app out…relying on the iPhone app on the iPad is seriously constraining
  2. Other than Flipboard, there seems to be no other real way of interacting with tumblr other than tumblr…keeping yourself in a silo is not the way to grow in the end

I’m not sure if tumblr just missed the boat on the iPad or they are consciously ignoring it…and if they are ignoring it, they are ignoring it at their own peril.

I find the Tumblr experience on iPad unfun, since it’s nearly impossible to edit there

Squarespace dramatically revises its pricing: they must be feeling the heat from competition like Tumblr (free) and Virb ($10/mo). I am glad to say that I moved to the new ‘everything you can eat’ plan from my previous ‘business plan’ and was credited $192. I maintain my work talk research website there, and will be relying on the built-in form capabilities that Squarespace offers in several projects, starting this week in fact. I will also be migrating (and drastically reworking) the workmedia.ly website onto Squarespace from Virb, as well.
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Squarespace dramatically revises its pricing: they must be feeling the heat from competition like Tumblr (free) and Virb ($10/mo).

I am glad to say that I moved to the new ‘everything you can eat’ plan from my previous ‘business plan’ and was credited $192. I maintain my work talk research website there, and will be relying on the built-in form capabilities that Squarespace offers in several projects, starting this week in fact. I will also be migrating (and drastically reworking) the workmedia.ly website onto Squarespace from Virb, as well.

world-shaker: Man, Tumblr is updating ALL the icons.
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world-shaker:

Man, Tumblr is updating ALL the icons.

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I don’t think Via.me has a chance of dislodging Tumblr, Instagram, Path, or a long list of other incumbents.
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I don’t think Via.me has a chance of dislodging Tumblr, Instagram, Path, or a long list of other incumbents.

Tumblr launches ‘highlighted posts’. from Tumblr Staff Blog: Introducing: Highlighted Posts Every now and then, a post comes along that’s meant for big things. It could be pulling the wraps off your new project, promoting your next show, raising awareness for a cause, or just sharing a truly incredible photo.  Today you’ll have a new option to Highlight those extra-important posts. For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice! MG Siegel thinks its a good idea. I guess I am ambivalent, and I will have to see what strange interactions highlighted posts might have with other Tumblr features, like Explore and reblogging. Note that I don’t seem to have access to this new feature yet, or I would have highlighted this post.
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Tumblr launches ‘highlighted posts’.

from Tumblr Staff Blog:

Introducing: Highlighted Posts

Every now and then, a post comes along that’s meant for big things. It could be pulling the wraps off your new project, promoting your next show, raising awareness for a cause, or just sharing a truly incredible photo. 

Today you’ll have a new option to Highlight those extra-important posts. For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice!

MG Siegel thinks its a good idea. I guess I am ambivalent, and I will have to see what strange interactions highlighted posts might have with other Tumblr features, like Explore and reblogging.

Note that I don’t seem to have access to this new feature yet, or I would have highlighted this post.

I have over 5000 Tumblr followers!
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I have over 5000 Tumblr followers!

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WordPress.com Partners with Federated Media for WordAds

Jon Burke

If you’re going to have advertising on your site, it darn well better be good, and beginning with our partnership with Federated Media we’re ready to start rolling out WordAds here on WordPress.com.

I was working with Federated Media a few years ago, but got dumb ads — Chevrolet? — and dropped out of the program. Maybe Wordpress will do it better.

I think that Tumblr should invent some sort of ad program, too. Please?

(via tacanderson)

(Source: newcommbiz)

IF THIS THEN THAT: Social Web's Duct Tape & Tumblr

gbattle:

ifttt is quietly building an arsenal of powerful small tools that are making them the duct tape of the social web.  Just as specific tools like hammers, chisels, saws and APIs are great in the hands of a skilled craftsman/developer, duct tape can fit the bill for connecting anything to anything for the numerous unskilled.  The ifttt repository for Tumblr might be where David & the Tumblr Crew mine for clues/ambassadors as they begin to embrace the developer community to create tools for the masses.  

I use ifttt to work around the inoperable import-posts-from-rss feature of tumblr, for example. I have a blog called Upstreamed which I follow here at stoweboyd.com, and I have set up a ifttt recipe for new posts of non-tumblr blogs I want to follow are posted to Upstreamed. Then the posts show up in my Tumblr stream, as if Tumblr supported the idea of following non-tumblr blogs.