marissamayr: I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!  We promise not to screw it up.  Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going.  We will operate Tumblr independently.  David Karp will remain CEO.  The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve.  Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster. Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs.  With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world.  Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month.  On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day.  Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network.  The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%. In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love.  In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences.  The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience. As I’ve said before, companies are all about people.  Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing.  I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them.  That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met.  He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with.  His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.    Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day. http://yahoo.tumblr.com/ ^^^^ That’s what she says and she better mean it. Tumblr is like family, and you don’t fuck with family.
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marissamayr:

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! 

We promise not to screw it up.  Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going.  We will operate Tumblr independently.  David Karp will remain CEO.  The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve.  Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs.  With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world.  Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month.  On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day.  Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network.  The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.

In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love.  In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences.  The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.

As I’ve said before, companies are all about people.  Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing.  I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them.  That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met.  He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with.  His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.   

Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/

^^^^ That’s what she says and she better mean it. Tumblr is like family, and you don’t fuck with family.

twain-muffin: This is why I am wary of certain translations (NIV/NET/etc) of the KJV of the bible. How does “effeminate” get translated to “homosexual”, let alone “passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,”?? Clearly someone took a free pass to make assumptions of what the original KJV meant. THIS is how religion gets co-opted, this is how understanding gets muddied. I am not questioning God, but I am certainly questioning the people who are creating these new translations. #bible #confusion #SomeoneSchoolMe #words #homosexual #religion #LostInTranslation #AmIWrong? #artmuffin
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twain-muffin:

This is why I am wary of certain translations (NIV/NET/etc) of the KJV of the bible. How does “effeminate” get translated to “homosexual”, let alone “passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,”?? Clearly someone took a free pass to make assumptions of what the original KJV meant. THIS is how religion gets co-opted, this is how understanding gets muddied. I am not questioning God, but I am certainly questioning the people who are creating these new translations. #bible #confusion #SomeoneSchoolMe #words #homosexual #religion #LostInTranslation #AmIWrong? #artmuffin

Erykah Badu Interviews Kendrick Lamar

  • BADU:

    How do you choose chicks from backstage?

  • LAMAR:

    How do I choose chicks from backstage?

  • BADU:

    Yeah, what is the protocol?

  • LAMAR:

    I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid.

  • BADU:

    [laughs] So you just pass?

  • LAMAR:

    I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head.

  • BADU:

    So who is your asshole-checker?

  • LAMAR:

    Who is my what?

  • BADU:

    Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole.

  • LAMAR:

    I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element.

  • BADU:

    What’s your favorite cereal?

  • LAMAR:

    Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks.

  • BADU:

    What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?

  • LAMAR:

    There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…

  • BADU:

    That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me.

Like a hole in an hourglass

Time between us was wasted

And now we must move on

Erase the past, and the feelings too

Delete the text messages that includes

History of Me and You

Even though we was never official

I Will Always Miss You

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