-
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.
-
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…
-
The rumors were true after all. Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy blogging service Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion in cash, according to the Wall Street Journal. The deal that would see Tumblr continue to operate as an independent business could be officially announced as early as Monday. Rumors that Yahoo was…
-
Screw tumbloo!, fund stack and avoid the corporate takeover!
stackfm: We can make better tools than tumblr, facebook, google+ and even twitter. Our system is designed to open source and decentralize over time, not sell out to the highest bidder.
-
From Web to Native: A Journey in Interface Design — Design/UX — Medium
From Web to Native: A Journey in Interface Design — Design/UX — Medium
-
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting via Twitter that the rumored $1.1 billion cash acquisition deal for social blogging site Tumblr has been approved by Yahoo’s board of directors. The Tumblr acquisition was rumored last week, with a price tag reportedly north of $1 billion, which appears to be accurate if the WSJ’s sources…
-
Tumblr’s users are almost universally unhappy with the news that the site might get sold to Yahoo. Hell No, Tumblr Users Won’t Go To Yahoo! · By INGRID LUNDEN/techcrunch.com (via sniffed)
-
stoweboyd: “Can Karp put on the big-boy pants, hire a Sheryl Sandberg character, and create a money-making machine? Because if he’s not sure, and he’s not ready for a long, hard, uphill fight, he should sell.” — Alexia Tsotsis, David Karp’s Dilemma tumbln about tumblr shares and diffuses my anxiety
-
dbreunig: “Sailors move an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush” (via Navy News Service) wrapped like a work by Christo
-
What are Art School for . . . Today?
What are Art School for . . . Today? notational: WHAT ARE ART SCHOOLS FOR … TODAY? Art education today bears the fruit of seeds planted in the 1960s. We see it in the wide-ranging creativity of art students, even as we observe the reactionary response of institutions, which since the Thatcher years have become…