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Gnip is an interesting company. It might not be extremely sexy or one that gets a lot of attention in mainstream press, let alone tech blogs. But it’s one that provides data from social services for a cost. For example, Gnip is a partner with Twitter in sharing its firehose of data for customers who want to know what people are saying about their brand or company.
David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr, revealed some fresh stats about the micro-blogging platform’s growth today. The company is seeing 20 billion pageviews a month, up from 15 billion at the beginning of the year, Karp said at GigaOm’s Roadmap conference in San Francisco today. That’s a growth rate of more than 30 percent per year. Compare that to 13 billion pageviews a month in September of last year, and a little over 4 billion pageviews a month in January 2011.
Tumblr is a company that has built a platform that seemingly morphs every single time I visit it. One of the most popular features of the service is its ability to share photos, and then of course watch them spread throughout the network quickly.
Today, Tumblr announced a new standalone photo-sharing app called “Photoset”, which allows you to group some pictures together, share them on a web page and spread to your friends on social networks…including Tumblr. Yes, Tumblr is definitely also a social network.
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At 69.4 million blogs and nearly 30 billion posts to date, the rush of growth at blogging site Tumblr has for years had a seedy undercurrent: the popular site is home to a long tail of raunchy, NSFW adult content. But now, a few signs are pointing to the company cracking down on it, with the sudden deletion of several popular porn blogs within a short space of time.
Update: Tumbler says that the removal of some blogs on the site is not a change in its policy on adult content. Rather, it may have been the fault of “an overzealous heuristic”. The full statement: “There have been no recent changes to our content policies. However, we have looked into the accounts in question and discovered that they belong to small handful of blogs that had been recently flagged as ‘spam’ by an overzealous heuristic. We are currently reviewing and will be reactivating any of these accounts that were improperly flagged.”
Lees meerIf you need a simple tool for your iOS or Android device that will allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or LinkedIn, one simple application on the market is Seesmic Ping. While there is a free version, the $4.99 package allows you to send up to 50 posts per day, in up to 10 accounts for posting, with no feature limits, the mobile app, a free Windows desktop app as well as included support. Seesmic Ping Provides the … Continue reading →
If you need a simple tool for your iOS or Android device that will allow you to post to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or LinkedIn, one simple application on the market is Seesmic Ping. While there is a free version, the $4.99 package allows you to send up to 50 posts per day, in up to 10 accounts for posting, with no feature limits, the mobile app, a free Windows desktop app as well as included support. Seesmic Ping Provides the … Continue reading →
Ah, there’s nothing like the sweet smell of highly-anticipated app updates in the morning. As CEO David Karp promised at last week’s F.ounders conference, the new version of Tumblr’s iOS app has now arrived. And it’s a doozy. (I mean that in a very good way). The app is completely redesigned, a lot faster, and offers a ton of new features ranging from Spotify support to gesture-based shortcuts.
The first thing you’ll notice, of course, upon logging in, is a radically different new post screen. While the app had previously featured colorful icons for things like “text,” “photo,” “audio,” and “video,” etc., the new post screen has gone for a black background with richer, bolder icons. It almost gives Tumblr’s iOS app an Android-like feel, to be honest.
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Tumblr is introducing a new feature today that lets its users pay a dollar in order to have their post featured on the Tumblr Dashboard. The option is called “Highlights,” and it’s now available right from the new post page on Tumblr. With Highlights, you can choose a special icon that will appear next to the post along with an optional message that points out why the post is important.
Some might say that social media has reached an inflection point. Companies are now staffing social media roles. They have shifted from inaction, to hiring consultants, to making social media part of their day-to-day activities. If a company is just getting into social media now, it has to do more than just catch up. Establishing […]
Lees meerI love my peeps over at Column Five, but I think they may have tipped a few many watching reruns of Diggnation. Digg? Really? By any stretch of the imagination, Digg‘s grave has been Dugg and StumbleUpon is the one planting flowers. Too soon? Sorry folks… when the audience leaves, the social app dies. It’s social media evolution. But wait… really… we missed LinkedIn, too? Google Business? Are you kidding me? Perhaps it was something a little stronger than beer. … Continue reading →
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