It seems to me they tried to buy a young and hip userbase. MySpace was once young and hip. It was where all the bands were. Tumblr is young, but not hip in any way. It's full of strange and not particular "social" (as in communicating and influencing the mainstream alot) people. Tumblr is full of (besides pron) homestuck fandom and feminists. It's full of some subcultures that are ridiculed by the mainstream (like MLP fans) and passive aggressive tweens. I'm not sure if Yahoo wanted that.
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Counter example: HD DVD was selected as the format of choice for next generation porn media. Didn't turn out so well. I think tumblr was easier for people to post stupid pictures of cats and porn. The friction to entry was lower IMHO.
I think the HD DVD/ Bluray era hasn't seen porn on those formats for two reason: 1. it doesn't matter anymore because the Internet has infinite porn. 2. No one wants to see their porn in HD, as it makes the whole thing kinda grosser. A bit like how Cameron Diaz looks great in low def, but has a crater face in HD.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1050627/pornhd.html No, porn definitely was going to be on HD DVD, it just lost the war.
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Apple as a whole is pretty anti-porn, and they dominated the profits (though not necessarily market share) in the smartphone/tablet market for a long time.
What? Their entire brand is "look how sexy we are".
I was responding to GP's sentence "I wonder if anyone has done a study of porn as a predictor of platform success/failure". Apple prohibits porn on their platforms, e.g. the App store is pretty conservative in what they allow.
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You must be new around here (said in jest). HN has had an anti=Yahoo bias for a long time; the reasoning behind the bias keep changing ("layoffs", "delicious", "WFH", etc.), but it always seems to be there.
I think the majority of the anti-Yahoo bias is simply from the company still being alive, despite not having done anything right the last decade. A functioning market needs companies to fail quickly.
I use a yahoo.com email address (created mid 90s) to subscribe to mailing lists etc. But I check it thru Thunderbird or K-9 email clients. I just visited the Yahoo website after several years and it looks like it could have been designed in '99. You'd think with a billion dollars to spare they could hire a couple of good designers who know their CSS. I guess Google's website has also looked the same for a long time but Yahoo.com hasn't the elegance or the sheer usefulness of Google.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the HD DVD/ Bluray era hasn't seen porn on those formats for two reason: 1. it doesn't matter anymore because the Internet has infinite porn. 2. No one wants to see their porn in HD, as it makes the whole thing kinda grosser. A bit like how Cameron Diaz looks great in low def, but has a crater face in HD.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1050627/pornhd.html No, porn definitely was going to be on HD DVD, it just lost the war.
Sorry, didn't mean it wasn't going to have porn, just meant no one seemed to care about HD porn on discs.
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That's a strange and interesting theory. I can think of a few anecdotal places where this is the case, but I wonder if anyone has done a study of porn as a predictor of platform success/failure... Edit : Just thinking about the business of porn, this is probably a decent heuristic for simplicity and cost effectiveness. Porn is usually very low budget (compared to other mass market media), with a very high volume of c…
> but I wonder if anyone has done a study of porn as a predictor of platform success/failure... For better or worse, FB could be a good example of "platform success" that partially relies on that. It's not porn per se, just beach/bikini photos of one's lady-friends, or his work-mates, or the wife's friends.
*female friends
fixed that for you
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#138If it was an acquhire they paid 5.8 million for each employee (187 employees). If it was to capture their revenue stream, they paid 85 dollars for every one dollar of revenue generated last year (13 million).
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#139Does 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.
http://chyrp.net/ -- PHP + MySql/Sqlite
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#140"We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing." - D. Karp Spending 1.1 billion on a company that says it's "not turning purple" may have some impact on morale in Sunnyvale and on Wall St.
YouTube didn't grow primary colors when it got adsorbed by the GOOG.
I think there's precedent for letting a subsidiary group retain its own branding and culture, and for that to not cause morale to drop.