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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…
Hoping that Yahoo keeps their promise not to screw things up, but I’m somewhat comforted by Marissa Mayer’s presence and her plan to operate Tumblr independently.
I love MIT, and hacks like this are a big reason why.
Watch this: MIT’s adorably nerdy hack during 1982 Harvard-Yale game
(Source: topherchris)
Faith No More
My sources are very good. Unfortunately, they apparently do not have very good taste.
As I noted a couple days ago, Google was about to launch a native Gmail app for iOS. It came this morning. Unfortunately, while I had been told it was “pretty fantastic”, the app that got released is anything but. As a result, Google quickly became the laughing stock of the Internet for a few hours this morning. The app was so bad, that they had to pull it saying: “Sorry we messed up”.
Simply put: I should have known better.
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
Apple’s vision for the future of computing versus Microsoft’s vision for the future of computing.
Any questions?
Awesome OS X 10.6+ screensaver that will show your Instagram stream or the popular stream. (Via @scottboms)
