Tumblr, the microblogging service which allows users to share images at the click of a button, has big plans to begin creating original content. This follows a year in which they gained more than 20 million new users. But what will they do about those pesky service outages and spam problems?READ»
There have been some newsworthy failures over the last couple of years in the photo-sharing field, and Facebook has pretty much replaced the need for stand-alone sharing apps. But after years of waiting, there's finally an app worth using.READ»
Brotip #1202: If you can't think of a badass idea, take an old idea and do something badass with it. Here's how to build a new media empire in "Entourage" nation. READ»
A semi-anonymous writer and editor reviewing others' reviews of indie music parlays blog buzz into actual people in a real-life record store clamoring for copies of his throwback printed product, a zine. READ»
The survival of nonprofits increasingly depends on the web. Of the $229 billion that individuals confer on nonprofits annually, $15 billion is contributed over the Internet. That figure is growing about 40% a year, with web donations ...READ»
Thanks to the Clients from Hell, the Rules for My Unborn Son, and the Sad Don Drapers, the blogging platform Tumblr is about to hit a major milestone: 10 billion blog posts. Yet as its user base swells, Tumblr itself has miraculously ...READ»
The Internet’s got a cornucopia of tools for organizing the crap we find and want to bookmark online. Too many, really. We collect articles using Instapaper. We store pictures on Flickr. We favor tweets on Twitter. It’s like ...READ»
Here at Co.Design, our fondness for felines ranks right up there with our worship of design god Dieter Rams. So at the risk of being too cute by half, we bring you Cat Scan, a Tumblr that elevates digital scans of our furry friends to ...READ»
The startup, currently in its "double secret alpha" version, taps into your RSS and Twitter feeds, culls content based on your interests--the stuff that "percolates up"--and then lets you share your thoughts on the subject with friends. READ»
The number of blogs hosted by microblogging site Tumblr just surpassed the number of "real" blogs hosted by venerable old-timer WordPress. Here's what we can glean about the future of blogging and social networks like Twitter from Tumblr's explosive growth. READ»
The State Department has launched a new microblog on Tumblr. We have a few lighthearted suggestions on how our diplomats can enter the world of LOLcats and F**k Yeah fansites.READ»
"If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions." So says Rule 34 of the internet, and a Tumblr called Scaffoldage -- dedicated to "skeletal archiporn" -- proves it true again. Don't worry, it's only porn in the metaphorical sense: ...READ»
A weekend security breach caused 748 lines of sensitive information to be exposed to the public. The hipster blogging service assures users that everything's fine. Not everyone is buying it.READ»
This past year, we brought you stories on everything from tweeting toddler toys and streamlined ATMs to news-reading apps and remote controls that magically change channels with a wave of the hand. Though wildly different from one ...READ»
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