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Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

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Post by gyardley »

B-Scan wrote: post #32
elithrar wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It looks that lot of their users don't like that idea: To be more precise, they don't like this: "Stop Yahoo! from buying Tumblr!! If this happens, the entire interface will be changed , and millions of users will delete their accounts - me being one of them. Please, please, please sign this to stop this!!" ... which isn't the same as Yahoo buying Tumblr. They don't want Yahoo to negatively change Tumblr (there's a…

Whatever their reason is, I don't get why I just got downvoted. I was just a messenger who shows that petition exists.

If I had to guess, it'd be because someone thought you were just commenting to promote your employer.

Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

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Post by geoffw8 »

freehunter wrote: post #67
UVB-76 wrote: post #60

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...not to mention Facebook took over as the place for most people to share photos with their friends

I don't think Flickr and Facebook/Instragram really compete, except in the situation where people didn't need Flickr but Facebook/Instagram didn't exist yet. Flickr is more for professional photographers, not a social network for youths to share their photos with their group. If Flickr loses professional photogs, then they're hurting. But they haven't yet. Instagram is not going to replace Flickr for Flickr's core au…

Thats the entire point. Flickr is about photos. If Flickr was releasing new products and testing new things they might have landed on Flickstagram. But like OP said they didn't do much at all, and so missed the boat.

So yes you're right, they don't compete. But thats the problem. Hypothetical one, and I wouldn't blame the CEO for it. Its just one of the many things up the road they didn't travel up.

Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

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Post by ssharp »

freehunter wrote: post #27
Swizec wrote: post #21

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Porn. Tumblr has porn. As always, when two technologies are battling, the one porn picks will win.

Except HD-DVD. In that battle, it was the one who had a video game console backing the standard versus the one with porn but a console maker only paying lip service to the technology.

BluRay won in terms of it stuck around, while HD-DVD died off, but I don't think BR has overtaken DVD's the way DVD's overtook VHS. For the longer game (which is probably only another half-decade), I'd argue that streaming/OnDemand is the real winner. If that's the case, then porn helped shape the winner yet again.

Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

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Post by ancarda »

Does anyone know a tumblr-like service that's open-source that I can stick on my server (Nginx/PHP-FPM/MySQL).

I should point out WordPress is far too heavy for a Raspberry Pi, I need something lightweight.

Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

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Post by wahsd »

I am genuinely confused about something because my realization does not coincide with my previous held beliefs. So I would appreciate if someone else could validate or make a good argument for why I am wrong.

These companies, especially the biggest ones and the ones that are acquired by them; they all seem to have one thing in common. They are all not at all about what they built, but, once you control for the variables, what you are left with is that it all comes down to users. These acquisitions have zero interest in the "product" as it is rarely unique or even innovative (image filters, "micro"-blogging, task management, etc.); it is all about acquiring the users.

Is there anything that could point to these and most other acquisitions not being solely about the users. I find it hard to believe that Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc couldn't build what are, essentially, usually, rather simple technologies.

It seems like it all comes down to the human factor and that changing versus creating new habits is rather difficult and costly, i.e., more than $1 billion dollars costly.

Sorry for the redundancy. I had to throw it together while being interrupted with work. Damn work.

Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

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Post by dangoldin »

wahsd wrote: post #88

I am genuinely confused about something because my realization does not coincide with my previous held beliefs. So I would appreciate if someone else could validate or make a good argument for why I am wrong. These companies, especially the biggest ones and the ones that are acquired by them; they all seem to have one thing in common. They are all not at all about what they built, but, once you control for the variab…

Users by themselves aren't valuable but the ability to monetize them is. Whether it's by selling them products or by showing them advertisements. The bigger companies have better infrastructure in place to be able to monetize users and I think Yahoo just thinks they'll be able to monetize the Tumblr users and recoup their investment that way.

It helps that the Tumblr demographic is most likely different from Yahoo's - although that may hurt them when trying to monetize since a different approach may be required. We'll see what happens.

Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

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Post by shawabawa3 »

wilfra wrote: post #64
captn3m0 wrote: post #15

Does anybody here think that this is a good deal for Yahoo?

It'll take at least a year before we have any idea. For now, just grab the popcorn. It's going to be fun to watch. Remember people thought Facebook was crazy to pay $1 Billion for Instagram. Now it's probably worth several times that...

> Remember people thought Facebook was crazy to pay $1 Billion for Instagram. Now it's probably worth several times that...

Is it though? As far as I can tell it still has $0 revenue.

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