Continuations

My blog Continuations has been on Tumblr since I started writing it a bit over eight years ago. But now I am seriously considering moving away from Tumblr. There have always been limitations, such as difficulty embedding certain types of content, but I generally worked around those. I liked being part of a network and the positive attitude that Tumblr was promoting – one of the reasons they stayed away from comments, but did support Disqus for people like myself who wanted comments. Now, howe...

It is now official that Tumblr will become part of Yahoo. Marissa announced the news in style with an animated gif. I have been lucky to be part of Tumblr’s journey as an angel investor and as an active blogger on the service since February 2008. I am excited about the combination with Yahoo. When Marissa took over Yahoo, I expected that acquisitions would play a role in her transformation of the company. At the time I wrote that the ideal target would be “startups that have very talented peo...

Managed to get into Google+ last night and here are some very early impressions. First, there is a lot to learn and explore. They clearly built a ton of different things and it will take folks, myself included, a while to figure it all out. It does feel a bit like they wanted to take on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook in one fell swoop, which is a tall order. Second, it does still feel a bit rushed because stuff doesn’t hang together all that well yet. For instance, navigating from circles to th...