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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who announced on Monday that the company acquired popular social blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion, said she will use the site often to share her experiences and interests with the community, from Yahoo news to pictures of macaroon art.
Mayer will blog with the user name MarissaMayr — note the dropped “e,” in line with Tumblr and Yahoo’s other product Flickr
“I intend to keep blogging,” Mayer told Mashable. “I’ve been wanting to blog for awhile, so it was really…
In July 2005, I created Mashable.com on a WordPress blog. In 2007, I created the @mashable Twitter account. In the beginning it was a feed of my personal thoughts and actions. Mainly, I was posting what I was having for lunch. But when I started sharing links to Mashable articles, I saw real engagement. Quickly, it evolved from my personal stream to the Mashable account that more than 3 million of our readers now follow
In the early days of Twitter, our job was to explain and translate the…
In the social-media age, even the most innocent misstep can have unintended consequences, as one NFL rookie recently found out the hard way
Keenan Allen is a talented wide receiver from Cal who was selected in the third round of last month’s NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. The Chargers and Oakland Raiders share one of the NFL’s fiercest rivalries, which is why a random fashion choice by Allen this weekend stirred up plenty of backlash from San Diego fans
When Allen made a trip to…
How much of Tumblr is porn, and what is Yahoo going to do about it? On the latter, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer spoke to its plans for addressing content that is not “brand safe” earlier this morning on a call about its $1.1 billion acquisition of the site, saying that Yahoo will need to have “good tools for retargeting,” and will “monetize in a way that is tasteful.” But as for the former, it’s often been something of a black box – there simply wasn’t publicly available data.
However, now, we…
I love reading great writing, which is what we aim to deliver consistently on this blog. But sometimes you’re just looking for a compelling piece of data to plug into a presentation or support a point you’re making in your writing. Well, if that’s what you need today, then this post is for you.
Add the Financial Times to the list of publications who have been compromised in recent months by an anonymous hacker collective calling itself the “Syrian Electronic Army.”
Multiple FT blogs and social media accounts were hacked into on Friday morning, a spokeswoman for the FT confirmed to Mashable. On the FT.com blogs page, the headlines of some recent posts read, “Tech blog: Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army,” according to screenshots obtained by The Telegraph. The group also posted the…
Hey sports bloggers, time to meet the man — er, boy — you’ll all be working for one day
While most kids his age are preoccupied with Grand Theft Auto or first kiss fantasies, 14-year-old Matt Nadel of New Jersey is busy building a miniature baseball blogging empire. He writes for a total of 10 publications online and off, including his main project — a baseball history blog called Baseball With Matt
The magazine New Jersey Baseball pays him $100 for two articles per month. A Cuban site…
All too often when we sit at the computer, we aren’t writing, we’re typing. It’s a subtle distinction but it’s an important one. Do you ever stare at your screen and know you need to get something down so you just hammer it out? Worse yet, do you ever stare at the screen, knowing you need to get something down, and then open a new tab and start reading the news or something? Writing isn’t always easy, anyone who says otherwise is selling something. You know that blogging is one of the…
First things first, when I make this claim, I’m assuming that you have your own website, and that you’re operating an “onsite” blog. All this means is that your blog is part of your website. The posts that you write are indexed as part of your website content.
Here’s how consistently publishing your blog can boost your marketing efforts:
The World Press Photo Foundation is denying accusations that its Photo of the Year is fake
In February, a panel of international judges selected Paul Hansen’s photograph “Gaza Burial,” which shows a procession of weeping men carrying the bodies of deceased Palestinian children wrapped in sheets
World Press Photo submitted the files for forensic review following controversy that spiraled from a blog post by image analyst Neal Krawetz, who alleged that the photo was actually a composite of…
