lol tubmlr

but the knock against yahoo is that they have all these properties that are just really disparate and they dont know how to integrate, how r u gonna synergize flickr and yahoo finance, acquiring tumblr is just another sign of that i think, how r u gonna monetize it, put some ads in the dashboard?? idk

something like what dan said

ya im not sure how even in this looney tunes world spending 1 billion dollars on a website that doesnt make any money is supposed to be great news for yahoo, like, isnt this all going to just crumble into dust some day soon??

so a company that does like... news aggregation and finance... can spend a billion dollars on a blogging website, while actual news properties shrivel up and die?? its insane

http://news.yahoo.com/opinion/

lots of interesting opinions 4 u

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/366364/Screenshots/dbap.png

yahoo is a profitable mature uncool company which in the tech world means youve got to burn it down cause developers developers developers or something

my guess is that they're not gonna stop doing the stuff theyr'e c urrently doing that makes them money like the kind of stuff dayo listed. as far as tumblr goes, if they acquire it, which at this point seems like a distinct possibility, it might be in their best interest to leti t run as a semi-autonomous thing a la facebook/instagram.

tumblr is a very 'sticky' website for sure, lots of eyeballs on it constantly all the time, like twitter, but how r u gonna monetize, u cant survive on VC money forever

now if yahoo wanted to buy a particular tumblr, like say sad youtube, then that would definitely make it a company worth paying attention to

put ads on there seems to work for other sites

charge fifteen year olds a monthly fee to post taylor swift gifs

that would be cool though if VCs were like, man, this is just a sick website, would be a shame to see it close, heres another 30 mil, take ur time i'm gonna be in the bahamas hanging out w/ scoble in his shower

now if yahoo wanted to buy a particular tumblr, like say sad youtube, then that would definitely make it a company worth paying attention to

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:30 PM

if i were a member of her executive team, i'd suggest this

thank you markers.

i agree also yahoo should buy my tumblr the400lols.tumblr.com its a quality tumblr

you might want to update it first

nah

if you type in my irl full name plus a ".com" into your browser's address bar you can see how a good website is really done

dat piff dot com?

yes that's it

let's start a trend of moving back to FriendFeed

speaking of scoble, damn did he like friendfeed

when did this thread become crunchtech, is the ink even signed on this one?

I'll believe they've "turned around" if markers signs up for a single one of their services

damn teh gauntlet is thrown

might happen, but unless there's a good reason for me to get a yahoo account, i probably won't, because i try to sign up for as little shit as possible

http://money.cnn.com/1999/01/28/technology/yahoo_a/

remember how people were actually like, woah, good decision on yahoo's part when the news went out of her hire? well, if you see what she's done since then, a lot of it seems kinda at least heading in a positive direction, and i think over time there's at least some sort of chance that at least something interesting will come of it, maybe, and if it doesn't oh well. but, really, i think what she's doing is worth devoting at least some attention to, if you care. and if you don't maybe go post about daft punk or something

― markers, Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:19 PM (Yesterday)

how is this even moderately interesting to anyone who isn't a yahoo shareholder/employee?

ya "heading in a positive direction"... "something interesting will come of it"... pure vagueitude

are they bringing back yahoo magazine?

markers im sure there is some arch joke buried in here somewhere but if you are the datpiff guy i saw you present once and you were pretty good

lol

damn, has the 'blr really been around since 08...

i hope they call it yumblr now

tumbhoo

how is this even moderately interesting to anyone who isn't a yahoo shareholder/employee?

― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, May 17, 2013 10:15 AM

http://i51.tinypic.com/257hpa8.jpg

wait

wait

wait

You’re responding to that question with a picture of a former pizza chef wearing a baseball cap. . .

That’s. . . brilliant *head eplodeds*

ban waterface

does mh stand for mother humper because you hump mothers

and by hump i mean bone

it does, actually

http://lplive.net/images/interviews/greydaze/waterface.jpg

shit how did you find my family portrait

shit
shit

(i'm second from the left btw)

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/335477566871859200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y38Sb3FOYmY

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/335477566871859200

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/17/4341144/yahoo-to-hold-monday-press-event-nyc-tumblr-acquisition-rumors

feel like the steve jobs rip thread should probably be renamed to reflect this new development

hahahaha

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-17/yahoo-s-mayer-said-to-be-preparing-updates-for-flickr-photo-site.html

god, if there's no tumblr stuff