tag: blogging

Tumblr: 108M blogs and 51 billion posts are worth more than $1.1B

May 18, 2013 9:59 AM John Koetsier

Tumblr, which famously hates advertising and only started trying to make money after five years in existence, is in a bit of a pickle, as its $125 million in funding is running out, giving the service only a few-month window in which to raise a new round or find a sugar daddy.

Automattic and Janrain add social login to WordPress.com VIP blogs

March 29, 2013 1:06 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Automattic, the company behind 63 million Wordpress blogs, and Janrain announced a partnership this morning that will bring social login, profile storage, and user analytics to its premium blogging clients.

Trying to make paywalls work, Andrew Sullivan offers Dish access for $2 a month

March 25, 2013 11:34 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Blogger Andrew Sullivan has changed the pricing model for his popular blog The Dish, now offering access for $2 a month rather than only a $20-a-year option.

WordPress invades schools with new Classroom sites

February 20, 2013 11:51 AM Jolie O'Dell

Jolie O'Dell

WordPress is giving K-12 teachers and students a helping hand with Classrooms, its new focus on education.

One year after being acquired by Twitter, Posterous shuts it all down

February 15, 2013 3:54 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

From Twitter's perspective, I guess, once the aqui-hire is complete and you have the hires, why keep the acqui?

GDGT’s Ryan Block: We’re bringing design and engineering skills to AOL’s tech sites (interview)

February 13, 2013 9:09 AM Devindra Hardawar

Devindra Hardawar

An insightful conversation on where AOL has been, and where it's headed with GDGT's help.

Andrew Sullivan’s new Dish site raises $333K in 24 hours

January 3, 2013 1:14 PM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

When Andrew Sullivan announced yesterday that he would be leaving The Daily Beast, he didn’t know if people would pay an annual subscription to read his new independent blog. Now he knows the answer is a resounding yes, with $333,333 raised in the past 24 hours.

How to take back control of your own social networks

December 20, 2012 8:15 AM Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

If you don't like the way social networks try to own your data, but you're not willing to sign off completely, there is a third way. Here's how to regain control of your own stuff without giving up Twitter and Facebook.

Tumblr finally hits the iPad

December 19, 2012 9:16 PM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Popular blogging service Tumblr has finally updated its native iOS app to support the iPad and iPad mini — a long waited moment for the millions of Tumblr fans around the world.

Mommy blogger alert: Sverve launches to provide all 3.9M of you with a monetization platform

December 5, 2012 6:07 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

The vast majority of bloggers tend to write in the dark, toiling away in relative obscurity while a few grab the spotlight. That's true for the almost four million "mommy bloggers" in the U.S. as well.

Tumblr just made its iPhone app way better

November 8, 2012 8:52 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Popular blogging service Tumblr has updated its iPhone app to offer a redesigned dashboard, faster posting, and more detailed notifications.

How Gawker bounced back after Sandy — and why it’s better than ever (for now)

November 3, 2012 9:36 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

After having its data center taken out by Hurricane Sandy, Gawker's network of sites decided to invade Tumblr to continue posting its engaging, irreverent content.

This startup wants to turn a 17-year-old intern into a bigtime media publisher

October 2, 2012 9:38 AM Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi

Stampsy makes tools that let you publish, share, and design every aspect of your message to the world using an iPad.

WordPress releases live-blogging plugin (with a massive, deadly bug)

September 4, 2012 4:30 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Popular blogging platform Wordpress just released a new plugin to make live-blogging super simple for everyone. Unfortunately, the plugin also makes it unbelievably easy to completely and utterly destroy your entire liveblog without even knowing it.

Twitter founders launch a blogging platform, Kevin Rose blogs about peeing

August 14, 2012 4:41 PM Jolie O'Dell

Jolie O'Dell

Medium is a blogging platform of sorts. It comes from Obvious Corp., the app shop where Twitter founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams are busy rolling out products for the social, web-connected masses.

Skyscrpr launches simple sexy monetization solution for bloggers

August 9, 2012 12:31 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Blog monetization start-up Skyscrpr is launching a new service for small and medium-sized blogs to sell, manage, and place their own ad inventory ... all in about 5 minutes.

Tumblr is no longer terrible on the iPhone

June 21, 2012 7:12 AM Devindra Hardawar

Devindra Hardawar

It took Tumblr long enough. Today the blogging company finally released an updated iPhone app that isn’t a complete pain to use.

Tumblr 3.0 for the iPhone sports a completely redesigned interface, some nifty new features, and it’s also much …

Tumblr releasing new iOS app next week

June 15, 2012 2:41 PM Devindra Hardawar

Devindra Hardawar

Despite Tumblr’s massive popularity, the blogging company hasn’t really paid much attention to its mobile apps. But that may change next week when Tumblr unveils an entirely new iOS app.

Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced the new app …

WordPress and Facebook are finally together, officially

June 12, 2012 1:35 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Facebook announced an official WordPress plugin today for cross-posting content, enabling tighter, cleaner, and simpler integration between millions of WordPress blogs and Facebook. All I can say is: finally!

I’ve been using WordPress blogging software since before it was WordPress. …