Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Yes, Tumblr's Cool — Just Not for the Reasons You've Heard

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Yes, Tumblr's Cool — Just Not for the Reasons You've Heard

If you've heard anything about Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer's announcement that Yahoo would spend $1.1 billion to buy Tumblr, it's that the deal is about making Yahoo “young” and/or “cool” again. The thinking is that Tumblr, “well loved with the

It currently looks pretty certain that Yahoo has pulled off a deal to buy Tumblr for 1.1B. The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has permanently been pretty friendly: Tumblr's confess blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com

Post anything (from anywhere!), customize everything, and find and follow what you like. Make your confess Tumblr blog today.

Editor's note: Kakul Srivastava is CEO and co-initiator of Tomfoolery, Inc. She was General Manager for Flickr from 2004 – 2009 and helped the product grow from 37,000 users to over 60 million. Simon Batistoni is VP of Platform and co-initiator of

During Yahoo's Flickr push event this evening, CEO Marissa Mayer responded to a question about restricted content on Tumblr, and confirmed that Yahoo has no plans to cull controversial material

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