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The secret is out - Yahoo! is purchasing Tumblr for $1.1 billion
Things moved super fast this weekend, as Yahoo!’s board gave the green-light and ever-so-needed approval to acquire Tumblr, for an astonishing $1.1 billion.
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How a Facebook update would go over in real life
Yep, I’m 100% sure this is how it would go too. This is how everyone feels every time Facebook wants to just move things around, just for the sake of, moving them around. Sigh.
Yahoo! is in talks to purchase Tumblr for estimated $1bn
Could this be the end of a good thing? It’s quite possibly so, if the news about Yahoo! being in serious talks to purchase Tumblr for an estimated $1 billion is true.
Facebook Home dies before it gets a chance to live
HTC First, or as many know it as Facebook Home, is dying off before it really had a chance to live, on AT&T that is. Apparently the idea to have Facebook 24/7 on your phone, all in your business, wasn’t the greatest of ideas. Who knew, right?
What I think about the new Facebook Home
Facebook is cool and all, but most days I prefer Twitter, Google+, and Tumblr. But even though I personally do like Facebook at times, do I really want it shoved down my throat 24/7? I mean let’s face it - we are on our mobile devices the majority part of our days. Do I want to spend all of my time on Facebook? Like the saying goes, “if you have too much of a good thing, something pleasant becomes unpleasant.” This may be the beginning of the end for Facebook.
Soon you will be able to use #hashtags on Facebook
Well well well. You may have wondered why people have used hashtags in the past on Facebook, when it does nothing on the social networking site. Soon, that may all change.
Awesome: Digg, yes the infamous Digg, is building a Google Reader replacement
File this under very cool. Digg, a content consumption website akin to the early days of the web, that eventually fell apart and failed while similar sites like Reddit took off, is offering up a better solution to the Google Reader massive fail today.
WTF: Google is killing off Google Reader!
Pictured inset is my Google Reader account. I have many many subscriptions, and thousands of updates daily for Reader. I can’t tell you how much I love, enjoy, and utilize Google Reader every day. That is why I am so disappointed, saddened, upset and every negative emotion I can think of, that Google is shutting down Reader.
Hacked: Why you might want to change your Twitter password
Over the weekend Twitter revealed that last week they were hacked, and that only a “very small percentage” of users were affected by this hack. Well, I don’t call 250,000 users very small, but since the user base is so large to Twitter this was a good spin to make it seem insignificant.
Is it down, or is it just me?
Sometimes when I get the itch to, I like to create things on the Internet. Sometimes they are useless, useful, serves a purpose only for me, or can be for everyone. Most recently, I worked on a new project using Tumblr to hack together a site that tracks the up and down time of all your favorite social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and others.
Fit over 140 characters into Twitter cleanly using Tall Tweets
As most of you already know by now, if you are using Twitter you cannot fit more than 140 characters into each tweet; this is one of their flagship features. If you don’t know this, maybe you are still using Friendster? I am hoping this is common sense here, so let’s continue on.
Mothers of Jews who like Bacon
The newest craze to hit Tumblr, courtesy of the new Facebook Graph Search, is clearly putting some folks in a compromising position. The new Facebook search method, which isn’t yet available to everyone, has a very robust and dynamic search which allows for all kinds of search results based on your Social Graph.
Facebook finally ups the ante, and introduces a more intelligent search
Let’s be honest - Facebook Search sucks. It always has. If you are on Facebook and want search results comparable to Google’s search engine, it’s gonna happen. That is until now. Facebook is finally promising a better, more intelligent search, which is something to get excited about.
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Google+ exceeds 500 million users on it’s social network
It’s been a minute since I have talked about Google+. Not much since summer has been going on with Google’s social network. They are making minor changes here and there, but as time has gone on I have seen less and less from the network. Activity such as re-shares have gone down, comments have gone down, and the amount of people that have “circled” me has slowed down.
