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Tumblr Had 42 Hours of Downtime in 2011 — And That’s an Improvement

in Social on December 15, 2011 at 11:43 am PT

Tumblr, the fast-growing blogging social network, goes down a lot. How much? It had 42 hours of downtime in 2011, by far the most among major blogging hosts, according to Pingdom.
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News Byte

VideoEgg + Six Apart = SAY Media

in News on September 21, 2010 at 2:45 pm PT

So much for Six Apart CEO Chris Alden’s flat denials of a looming deal with ad network Video Egg. The deal is on, and when it’s announced tomorrow, Six Apart, the company that once ruled the blogging software market with its Movable Type software and TypePad-hosted blog service, will be no more. It will merge with VideoEgg to create a new company called SAY Media, “a media company designed for the social age.” End of an era.

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Printing and Binding Your Blog for Posterity

in News on October 8, 2009 at 10:35 am PT

Some bloggers are beginning to save their words on paper after all–collected between hard covers in a bound volume to pass along to their children. A service, Blog2Print, from New York custom-book maker SharedBook, prints blogs into books and says that demand has been been growing 50 percent every month, although from a small base.

Who Said Web 2.0 Was R.I.P.? Microblog Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million, Expectations.

in Media on December 11, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Tumblr is exactly the kind of start-up that’s supposed to be gasping for air in today’s dismal economy: A trendy but niche Web service with a prominent founder and exactly zero revenue. Instead, it has raised a $4.5 million funding round from Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital, which values the company at around $15 million.

SnagFilms Finds Virtual Theaters for Documentaries

in Personal Technology on July 16, 2008 at 6:02 pm PT

SnagFilms is a great idea for getting documentary films in front of more people, writes Walt Mossberg. It’s a new service that allows anyone with a blog, a Web site, or even a page on a social-networking site, to open a virtual movie theater and show these documentaries, free.
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Steve Jobs at WWDC 2008: iPhone 3G for $199, on Sale July 11

in Social on June 9, 2008 at 9:59 am PT

With Apple’s much lauded iPhone having captured about 19.2 percent of the smart-phone market, expectations were high in advance of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s keynote at the company’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. And Jobs did not disappoint, unveiling the iPhone 3G, which will go on sale July 11 for $199.
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No Excuses: a Wire-Free Way to Upload Photos

in The Mossberg Solution on November 21, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Most camera users don’t want to hassle with USB cords and slow upload speeds when transferring images onto a computer or photo-sharing site. The $100 Eye-Fi Card is a carefree solution to the aggravation.
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