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!

Ruh roh

My guess is that they already have some kind of monetization plan in order. Nobody spends over a billion on a site that made something less than 1.5mil last year without a plan. So I’d say we should expect adverts, and possibly sponsored Tumblr accounts and stuff, but no immediate shut-down.

🙁

Although if they start offering more services (like a search function that can deal with combinations or an auto-generated tags page) I might pay for them.