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Tumblr is “The Easiest Platform To Share Yourself”
Tumblr. If you aren’t sure what Tumblr is, check out my video review. The interview is about four minutes long and is embedded below. So what exactly is Tumblr? Scott says it’s the "easiest way to share yourself". Scott is smart not to call it a micro-blog because that would mean his tool would be out of popularity if/when blogging loses it’s sexyness. Some other comments from the interview:
- They are very big in Japan
- Tumblr reached the same traffic levels in 2 months that it took Digg 8 months to reach
- Scott noted 75,000 users – How many active?
Peter at SAI has some additional financial details on their $750k funding which he says makes Scott a paper-millionaire.
Here is one thing I haven’t seen mentioned: tumblr is a spammer’s dream. It gets Google indexed and more importantly, Technorati considers it a blog so it gets indexed in the inbound count. Just wait until the spammers realize this!
Tumblr is great because its simple and acknowledges that blogs can’t be the end all be all of web publishing. But maybe I’m selfish about that.
Also, David, not Scott, is the company founder.
i love tumbler, I moved my blog to from textpattern to it. Its easy to customise too (Heres one I added some extra html to http://techcastaddict.com).
The best thing is that it is real easy to add your own domain to it for free. I would of paid for that.
Interesting – I wonder where and how the monetization will come – they really don’t even do any branding!
I’ve been using tumblr for maybe 6 months now and they provide an awesome service. It just works, no issues ever. :)
One of my friends is “involved” in a similar service:
http://www.soup.io/
Also not bad, but I was too lazy to move over from tumblr. ;)