“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”―Bill Gates”
New theme for Foobar2000 Zetro
Excellent write up by @marcoarment on @davidkarp and @tumblr (via The One-Person Product – Marco.org)
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.
Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs. With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month. On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day. Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network. The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.
In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love. In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences. The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.
As I’ve said before, companies are all about people. Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing. I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them. That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met. He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with. His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.
Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.
@marissamayer rocks once again.
Android Studio
Finally some goodness from Google to give more seriousness to Android development. Android Studio is a first step towards that. Really appreciate the effort behind.
People who crib about iOS UI is boring give a wrong notion to make the UI flat. Skeuomorphic design isn’t boring, but Apple has not changed it since it’s launch. Hope Ive won’t bring a Windows 8/Android on iPhone.
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10 Modern-Day Gatsbys
Mystery. Money. Decadence. If Fitzgerald were writing The Great Gatsby today, he’d be using these millionaires for inspiration.
New foobar2000 setup
- wasapi
- darkone
- facet
“Fire will keep burning even after the twig or the stick that started the fire has burned out. In the wild fire of thought, there is an element of the destruction of the self. But it means that you are spreading your thought to others or you are living in others after you void yourself. That is something that we cannot prophesize. If you die without having made any enemies that means that you have not done anything”
– M N Vijayan
Spotlight: South Africa
Since launching, we’ve seen Instagram spread from our headquarters in the Bay Area to every corner of the globe. In this series, Spotlight, we’ll highlight top users from countries and cities with thriving Instagram communities.
South Africa, the African continent’s southernmost country, boasts 11 official languages, three capital cities and some of the most photogenic landscapes in the world. Instagrammers both homegrown and from abroad have given outsiders a glimpse into this vast and diverse country, from the Namib desert in the northwest to the subtropical forests in the east to the coastline that stretches over 1700 miles (2700km).
Want an insider’s view of South Africa? Follow these locals to see the country through their lens.
- Ofentse Mwase, a cinematographer snapping photos from Johannesburg and its outskirts — @unclescrooch
- Alessio La Ruffa, taking beautiful photos in and around Pretoria — @alessiolr
- Ross Pickford, a software developer sharing photos from Cape Town — @roscoedude
- Gareth Pon, a filmmaker photographing Johannesburg’s cityscapes — @garethpon
To explore the country in depth, you can also browse the location pages for some of South Africa’s most popular destinations:
- Orlando Towers, art and base jumping at defunct nuclear cooling towers
- Lion’s Head summit, with a spectacular view of Table Mountain
- Cango Caves, beneath the Swartberg range near the town of Oudtshoorn
- Knysna Elephant Park, up close and personal with beautiful pachyderms
