It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion . You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of money. A coincidence? You be the judge.
Just what is Yahoo buying? The business acumen of the deal is not something I can judge, but if you are doing due diligence on the technology then Tumblr would probably get a big thumbs up. To see why, please keep on reading...
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…3D, Doon, Quake and other id software games), David Karp ( Tumblr; and he doesn't even have a high school degree), and Jamie " jwz" Zawinski ( Netscape and XScreenSaver), just to name a few off the top of my head. Sooner or later, in a group of developers, you'll hear some kind of debate as to whether a formal computer science education is truly necessary.
The debate is even more applicable for game development. Most universities have a game development …
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44.6 billion - Tumblr posts; 300 Gb/s - DDoS DNS amplification attacks; 100 million - Eventbrite tickets processed.
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There's anything really wrong with using your personal technology to suit your needs, even if those needs are "selfies" (self-photographs, or as the folks on Tumblr say, GPOY — Gratuitious Photos Of Yourself). It is an interesting observation on how technology changes drive usage changes, what with the difference between bulky 1960s film cameras and today's portable networked pocket computers that just happen to take photos. If Neil Armstrong had a modern day phone or …
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…in a box makes it feel temporary, short-lived, even. It's in the same vein that posts on the Tumblr dashboard feel like one-off posts with no future in sight. An unused, stacked-page direction
Allowing articles to own the entire page in the browser, free of contained boxes, gives them a sense of worth. Nothing revolutionary, of course. Frank and the nice folks at Medium are aware of it.
Inspiration board and cutting room floor
You can start to see a lot of inspiration …
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…his conclusion from a lengthy discussion about the topic on his personal Tumblr, but the premise rings true — a person decides they want to invest in Square, be it a personal or business decision, so treating them as just another cog in their broader business picture would be a severe mistake.
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If you upload multiple images into one Tumblr post, an iframe is created in the post instead of a simple image. This difference was allowing these iframe photos to slip under the radar. To fix this, first we broadened the scope of our image flipping function from '.content img' to '.content img,.photoset_row img' allowing us to capture, flip, and save the iframe images with the rest. We then wrote a method to change the source of the iframe images away from the tumblr …
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A link to the Amazing iOS 6 Maps Tumblr.
A link to a process article on the prospects for a Google Maps app.
While Gruber's audience is the devoted Apple faithful, the lack of a mention of maps.google.com is a clear disservice to his readership.
The larger problem here is a general lack of respect for Web-based solutions. Apple's push for native apps on iOS has severely hurt the Web. Users become paralyzed, thinking that if there's no solution available …
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