lol tubmlr

Tumblr feels that Yahoo’s $1.1 billion offer as “too low” and view it as “only a first offer”, according to sources close to acquisition talks.

KEEP TUMBLR WEIRD

https://twitter.com/wsj/status/336152689211756544

http://i.imgur.com/XwtH8Jv.png

the biggest lol from this is that tumblr is only worth 10% more than instagram

id 100x rather spend a billion on instagram than tumblr

also iirc the instgram sale closed at $750m

wikipedia says youre WRONG #instagramit

oh wikipedia wow cool site http://www.blogherald.com/2012/10/24/facebook-ended-up-paying-less-than-750-million-for-instagram/

eh its all about the closing date, just think if facebook can leverage its monetization synergies its stock could jump to $100 and then instagram dudes would be worth a bajillion dollars

anyway youre right in that this is a straight cash homie sale instead of cash + stock, instagram was cheaper

http://i.imgur.com/oCli3b9.jpg

now he can buy all the yukatas he wants

when i go to my barber i ask him to give me the 'david karp'

i feel like tubmlr is mostly successful because of its culture not necessarily its technology which is just mostly blogging, its culture is really not that respectable and is mostly hermetically sealed from the rest of the webb, liek you can drive madd clicks to yr web properties via facebook or twitter but tumblr just leads to more tumblr, facebook bought instagram as a defensive move which kinda makes sense, yahoo bought tumblr cause they think they can leverage the shit out of its synergies and i think they cannot

i see a common refrain is that yahoo is buying it for its userbase - cue all those silicon valley VC ppl who are like "you can/should value a user at $X a head" - it can prob drive traffic to some websites and youtube, but youre right in that anigifs are self-contained

yahoo properties are not synergistic at all though, it's a bunch of cobbled together properties, probably yahoo is fine with that

tumblr is #32 on alexa's web rankings, behind.... wordpress

maybe yahoo is just planning on putting some ads on there, could be worth it i guess, but id have to think at that price theyre depending on people keeping on using it for a long time which seems pretty suspect, especially as theyll prob fuck it up

yeah... putting ads into the dashboard stream a la twitter is the easiest way but also the most intrusive

maybe they'll data harvest, see what posts get the most notes, analyze, sell that info

advertise on tubmlr by yahoo!™ to reach the vital 13-24 y/o gender queer pokemans porn gif enthusiast demographic

im kinda suspicious of the idea that all this social media infos is so valuable and resalable, like im sure there are people who want to buy it but not a billion dollars worth

w the possible exception of twitters real time infos which does seem like it could be of grave interest to financial types

i'm on the shareholder call right now. no big insights. it is kind of lol that while tunblr will sexy up yahoo's image they are taking cash only in the deal, not any stock. not that i pretend to understand how these deals work.

mayer just apologized for karp not being on the call this morning.. great start to the relationship!

he got lost in a big pile of money as documented in this gif

finally someone asked how "brand safe" it is for yahoo. i wish a hedge fund would just blurt out "are you going to delete all that sweet porno?"

cant believe im liveblogging this.. /disgusted with myself

congrats on getting cashed out man

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/335468881688801280
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/335471574180311042
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336468019469504512

https://twitter.com/m4tt/status/336458409861869568

biggest non-story of the year?

lols @ "We promise not to screw... "

http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/myOneTalkWithMarissaMayer

^^^

http://25.media.tumblr.com/d0be01fac7c328ff1e36b52e93ad57c8/tumblr_mn3o91kWTu1qavqqoo1_500.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/f78d3e2301d862dee731a0a2c727b897/tumblr_mn7ieqqc8F1qk7pano1_500.jpg

Breaking

http://grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com/image/51081766683

http://grimes-claireboucher.tumblr.com/image/51081534071

hey grimes look at my phone

They look like siblings.

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/51124717831/i-met-the-guy-who-invented-tumblr-last-night

actually, grimes

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=48

is tumblr the new myspace

did myspace have pegging gifs?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/27/facebook-blogs/

saw my first monetized ad in my stream today, awesome =D

finally

are you serious?

jeez, that was quick.

wait, it wasn't a reblog of my hamfisted fake monetized ad, was it?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/e5d9a89c1865ef6505ee2a320d4bfece/tumblr_mn47zvF1eD1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

probably not