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Yahoo! Just Bought Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
Yahoo! Just Bought Tumblr for $1.1 Billion rhube: twistedsoup: slothturtle: 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!…
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kateoplis: “I should not be this sad about the sale of a website. I should not be this sad about the sale of a website. I should not be this sad about…” — Laura Olin Everything’s going to be OK. that’s what I keep telling myself. Yet…
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thejogging: Jogging presents ‘Soon’ an exhibition at the Still House, opening Friday May 24, 2013 from 6 – 9:00 pm. After party music provided by Slava. http://enterstillhouse.com/http://thejogging.tumblr.com/http://soundcloud.com/slava ‘Soon’ For most, the trip to the Still House is a lengthy one, poetically punctuated at the end of Brooklyn’s Van Brunt Street by a view of the Statue…
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wired: “There were no other competing bids, despite reports, to snap up the New York-based hipster blogging service.” — Kara Swisher needs to stop calling Tumblr a hipster blogging service. (Oh, and she says the deal was unanimously approved. On a side note, TechCrunch suggests that the reason why Tumblr accepted the lower deal is…
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joelaz: Say it ain’t so, Tumblr!
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synecdoche: If you guys are planning on dramatically deleting your accounts when Yahoo! buys Tumblr, can you at least migrate back to livejournal? It’s so cold and lonely there.
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The Internet will kill everything you love. But by the time it dies, you won’t even care. Squashed: If Yahoo buys Tumblr… (via nevver)
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johndarnielle: wilwheaton: I really hope Yahoo doesn’t fuck up Tumblr like it’s fucked up … well, every single thing it’s ever touched in the history of the universe. See here’s the thing though. The only way to prevent something like this would have been to make Tumblr an unwelcoming space, and that’s where we run…
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jonnyskov: warrenellis: Yahoo to acquire Tumblr in $1.1 billion cash deal Wut. This seemed so insane I had to look it up. And it’s totally true. Either Tumblr is about to start a sad downward spiral or else Yahoo is going to get a lot more interesting.
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Who Are the People That Get to Make This Thing We Call Art?
Who Are the People That Get to Make This Thing We Call Art? towerofsleep: rematerializationchamber: From the FDR, an enormous red balloon dog is instantly recognizable as the handiwork, minus the “hand” and arguably also the “work,” of Jeff Koons. Art makes history. I shiver to think this will be ours. If Koons is the…