Tag: TUMBLR

As the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that's true, Twitter and Tumblr should be very flattered by the Chinese copycat sites Sina Weibo and DianDian, which have plucked ideas and designs from the microblogging networks. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Sina Weibo has eclipsed Twitter as China's leading microblogging site. Mirae Asset Securities estimates ...

Blogging platforms and personal blogs have both seen dips in traffic with the emergence of Twitter and Facebook. Services like Blogger and LiveJournal, which cater to a younger crowd focused on sharing thoughts and experiences with others, have borne the brunt of the decline. A Pew Research Center poll found that the percentage of 12- to 17-year-olds with blogs had fallen by half since 2006, to ...

Listen. If you're looking for Valentine's Day gift ideas for your significant other on this site, you're certifiably effing clueless. We're a tech blog! But we know it's hard to find Google, so get comfy and stay a while. Let us tell you exactly what not to get that girl or guy you managed to drag home without the help of Rohypnol, and perhaps you'll even cement yourself as their last-ditch ...

By distilling Fashion Week into its purest form -- the photo -- Tumblr succeeds in creating a starkly meaningful landscape in which one can really enjoy the aesthetics of the week. No retweets, no "@"s, just streams and streams of images. As a service, Tumblr is embracing its role as the world's best inspiration board, a repository for the bloggers and reporters who capture the lovely digital ...

'The Daily' is just over 24 hours old, yet it has already inspired at least two unsanctioned Tumblr accounts. While 'The Daily' has an official Tumblr that will offer analysis of stories and interviews with staff members, 'The Daily, Daily' takes potshots at the new tablet-only news outlet, and creator Rupert Murdoch's insistence that 'The Daily' represents the future of media. The Daily: Indexed ...

Lauren Leto, co-founder of 'Texts From Last Night,' regularly receives submissions from users looking to share their most hilariously embarrassing texts with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, though, many of them never make the cut. "A lot of the texts go unused because they're not funny and don't fit into our set of guidelines because the jokes are too personal," Leto tells the New York ...

Do you love those Tumblrs, filled with photos of broken wine glasses and rain-spattered window panes, that concede breathless phrases like, "without you, forever i am lost"? Well, Web app helveticaBOMB will aid your Photoshop poetry by choosing a random snapshot from its database for your stricken slogans. You could try being funny, too; it's allegedly an "experiment in interaction." Helvetica ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe we should let dump.fm do the talking. The image-based chat service is the brainchild of Ryder Ripps and the result of his collaboration with Scott Ostler of MIT Exhibit and Tim Baker of Delicious, all three part of the ever-growing group of young artists raised in a digital age. Ripps describes dump.fm as a "platform for real-time image ...

Bookmarklets are an interesting and lightweight alternative to full-fledged browser extensions. Unlike regular bookmarks, bookmarklets don't take you to a website, but perform an action on the page you're currently viewing. They use bits of code, usually Javascript, to do things like send links, translate a page or mark a site for future reference. While they can't offer the deep functionality ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Urlesque rounds up 13 amazingly useless machines, ranging from pedal shoes to a banana fan. [From: Urlesque] Justin Long reveals the months he dedicated to ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The Bit-101 blog throws the Kindle and iPad under the microscope to compare pixels with close ups of print. [From: Bit-101] The Double Rainbow meme shows its ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Pixel artist Junkboy reimagines video games of today, such as 'Bioshock' and 'Super Smash Bros. Brawl,' if they'd been released 20 years ago. [From: Geekosystem] ...

In the vast sea of the Internet, there are myriad options for self-expression. The difficulty is picking a method that best suits one's needs and technical abilities. Do we want to express our truncated thoughts via Twitter, or perhaps wax loquacious on LiveJournal? Are Facebook updates enough, or do we want to share more than our relationship status and embarrassing party photos? In recent ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Geek drivers probably know about GPS provider TomTom, and that the company has recently released new voices for your dash-mounted navigator -- straight out of 'Star ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Anyone remember the old Yippie adage, "Don't trust anyone over 30?" Well, Apple is pushing 35, and, according to some folks, it has officially sold out. Discussing the recent iPhone 4G-related home invasion of Gizmodo's Jason Chen, Jon Stewart scathingly lambasted the corporate behemoth, asking, "Remember back in 1984, you had ...