Batman, Robin, and the Holy Quotes!
The best of Robin in Batman (1966)
7 possible reasons to like Yahoo’s acquistion of Tumblr
Contrary to some users concerns, there are plenty of reasons to be excited for Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr. Here’s 7 ideas I can think of how Yahoo could make Tumblr better by leveraging their own tech:
- More original photography and clearer attribution via Flickr. It’s easy to see how these two visually-oriented social media sites might work together, especially as Flickr has one of the better tools to share photos on Tumblr already.
- Better link sharing of Yahoo news content. One of my big pet peeves on Tumblr - unverified rumors spread more readily and don’t get corrected. Bringing in more professionally written news stories might lead to better conversations in the Tumblr-verse…
- Sharing chats straight from IM: wouldn’t it be cool (and more transparent) if you could import dialog straight form your IM window straight to Tumblr? Editing/formatting chats is cumbersome in the current version of Tumblr, but Yahoo already has it’s own popular chat service. They could even prompt a user to consent to sharing their discussion on the social site.
- “Ask me anything” could open up open-questions via Yahoo! Answers (a site which still gets a ton of questions). Call it “Ask us anything”, and I think it might open up conversations in a way which might be helpful to users.
Easier link sharing through Delicious.Too late for this one I’m afraid…- Mail/inbox integration. Not sure if anyone else wants an integrated inbox like this, but I think it’d be helpful to have more unified messaging systems all around, to reduce redundancy and clutter.
- Just leveraging the web/mobile engineering resources ought to make Tumblr better in the long run. In my wish list: bigger GIFs, larger image uploads, improved SEO, etc.
Some of these are more wishful thinking on my part, but I’m sure Yahoo put a lot more thought into how Tumblr fits into their overall strategy…
Welcoming marissamayr to Tumblr:
The great workplace dilemmas of our time…
Ideas for possible Yahoo/Tumblr rebranding, via jickatrap:
Yahoo Meeting Minutes - 05.20.13 by Lee Crutchley | Quoteskine on Flickr.
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The Life Aquatic
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Bruce Mozert’s amazing underwater photographs, circa the 1930s and 50s (via The Huffington Post)




