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A place where my love for technology, gadgets, music and visual inspiration meet.
Infused with comic relief.
This is a clever little ad by Microsoft poking fun at the iPad with an assist from Siri.
Although, the version of Windows running on this tablet, Windows RT, has it’s own set of drawbacks that make some of these point irrelevant. But hey, that’s marketing for ya!
If you’re having font problems I feel bad for you son…
(via helloyoucreatives)
As I await my pre-order to start shipping, Leap Motion gives insight in progress made over the delay.
As most of us had suspected, I think the delay would easily be worth the wait!
Leap Motion with Windows
With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that’s possible with multi-touch inputs — without actually touching anything.
Looking forward to get my hands above(?) this. It certainly looks awesome. The Leap Motion Controller costs $ 79.99 and the company will start shipping on July 22nd. A Mac OS X demo video is on its way as well.
Flickr Gets Brilliant Redesign and Gives Whomping 1TB of Free Space! Ad-free, pro accounts go up to $50 annually.
Yahoo just bought Tumblr, and here Flickr gets a new redesign with completely different interface…
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer makes a clever Tumblr acquisition announcement… via her own Tumblr account
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.
First time spinning this one. #primus
