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05-19-2013, 09:35 PM
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#1 | | I don't get it
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| Yahoo to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion
Here's the only article I could find that wasn't behind a paywall or Gawker-affilliated: Yahoo Deal Shows Power Shift - WSJ.com
Yahoo destroyed Flickr, which used to be at the forefront of innovation, by enforcing integration with Yahoo accounts and banning anything above a PG-13 rating. Tumblr has a lot of porn, either real-life or the new My Little Pony cartoon, and it's all going to go.
First, Yahoo bans telecommuting, and now they're about to kill Tumblr.
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05-19-2013, 09:36 PM
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#2 | | Say! Say! Say!
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Doesn't make sense to me to purchase Tumblr.
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05-19-2013, 09:38 PM
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#3 | | I don't get it
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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG Doesn't make sense to me to purchase Tumblr. | No, it doesn't. Tumblr is used by teens and twentysomethings, and Yahoo is used by everyone's grandparents and baby boomers who think Obama's the spawn of Satan.
Yahoo wants the userbase, which will abandon Tumblr when they sanitize the site.
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05-19-2013, 09:39 PM
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#4 | | I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG Doesn't make sense to me to purchase Tumblr. | ^+1... Tumblr isn't going to get any more popular imo, and it is getting replaced by Instagram.
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05-19-2013, 09:40 PM
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#5 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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It's about control.
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05-19-2013, 10:14 PM
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#6 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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They should save their money and bring back chat rooms! 
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05-19-2013, 11:53 PM
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#7 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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who would've thought yahoo still has a billion dollars
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05-19-2013, 11:55 PM
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#8 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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Yahoo is so out of touch
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05-19-2013, 11:57 PM
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#9 | | DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG Doesn't make sense to me to purchase Tumblr. | It makes total sense.
In a few years Tumblr will be as obscure as Yahoo.
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05-19-2013, 11:59 PM
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#10 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Interesting. I can't wait for the out come
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05-19-2013, 11:59 PM
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#11 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Headline from next year: Yahoo buys Friendster for $2.2 billion
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05-20-2013, 12:14 AM
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#12 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Originally Posted by BurnoutBinLaden Here's the only article I could find that wasn't behind a paywall or Gawker-affilliated: Yahoo Deal Shows Power Shift - WSJ.com
Yahoo destroyed Flickr, which used to be at the forefront of innovation, by enforcing integration with Yahoo accounts and banning anything above a PG-13 rating. Tumblr has a lot of porn, either real-life or the new My Little Pony cartoon, and it's all going to go.
First, Yahoo bans telecommuting, and now they're about to kill Tumblr. | Where in the article does it say this?
"Yahoo plans to allow Mr. Karp to continue to run the site and operate largely separately from the rest of Yahoo, people familiar with the matter said."
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05-20-2013, 12:22 AM
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#13 | | I don't get it
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I'm not 100% convinced. Yahoo would not want want their brand associated with Tumblr's easily-accessible NSFW content. I suspect, at minimum, a mandatory filtering (e.g. "Click here if you are over 18")
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05-20-2013, 12:25 AM
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#14 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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They don't have to be strongly associated with it. They can own Tumblr but keep their distance. Avoid integration with the parent company and just let the advertising $$ roll in. I think that's what they plan on doing, judging by the article. Advertising on Tumblr is fairly low key right now. Really commercializing the brand will kill it, and I think Yahoo is aware of that.
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05-20-2013, 12:44 AM
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#15 | | In RS I Trust
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I'm surprised that Google isn't trying to buy it
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05-20-2013, 12:46 AM
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#16 | | ...in the world.
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Yay! More things that Yahoo will buy and run into the ground!
Yahoo needs to start buying things that make money. Tumblr can't be monetized effectively.
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05-20-2013, 12:48 AM
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#17 | | "Entertainment" mod.
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Where will the hipsters turn to blog now with Tumblr purchased by a mainstream company  ?
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05-20-2013, 01:13 AM
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#18 | | I keep RS good
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we'll see how marissa mayer holds up
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05-20-2013, 01:32 AM
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#19 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by kwy They don't have to be strongly associated with it. They can own Tumblr but keep their distance. Avoid integration with the parent company and just let the advertising $$ roll in. I think that's what they plan on doing, judging by the article. Advertising on Tumblr is fairly low key right now. Really commercializing the brand will kill it, and I think Yahoo is aware of that. | You think it makes enough on ads to cover the 1.1 bill yahoo paid for it.
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05-20-2013, 06:14 AM
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#20 | | Banned By Establishment
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Originally Posted by murd0c I'm surprised that Google isn't trying to buy it | Honestly, when I read something like this, I think if Yahoo can buy a company for a billion dollars, one of several things happened:
1. Google, Apple and Facebook looked at it and thought it was junk
2. Google, Apple and Facebook looked at it and thought it was overpriced
Because they have money they could literally burn on an acquisition gamble that Yapoo just can't.
Fuck your webmail YaPoo! This guy is still bitter.
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05-20-2013, 07:23 AM
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#21 | | The "You'd Know" Moderator
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I still remember how Yahoo ran Geocities to the ground. It was a nice community while it lasted.
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05-20-2013, 08:19 AM
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#22 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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yahoo still makes a LOT of money from advertising. A big way how is by owning or partnering with websites and running ads on them
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05-20-2013, 08:37 AM
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#23 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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If anything, Yahoo should burn to the ground. I literally forgot about them over the past year.
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05-20-2013, 10:11 AM
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#24 | | I'm better than you.
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Great, now Tumblr can afford to buy that missing "e."
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05-20-2013, 10:43 AM
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Yahoo. 
Haven't used Yahoo in probably close to eight years.
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