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The Twitterization of Tumblr.
This is neat, though there’s a chance it’s going to move really fast for some folks. The option to turn it off is smart, though.
Shop’s been dropped: Seventeen magazine’s editor-in-chief Anne Shoket, bowing to the pressures of fourteen-year-old Julia Bluhm’s 84,000-signature petition, agreed to stop photoshopping the girls featured in her magazine. The new “Body Peace Treaty” makes a pledge to diversity within the magazine regarding body shape, size and skin color. In an interview with NPR, Shocket assured listeners Photoshop would only be used to fix errant strands of hair or acne blemishes to “make you look like you would on your best possible day.” Excellent work, Julia. source
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a ban on insider trading by members of Congress and their staff.
The law, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, explicitly says that members of Congress and their staffs are not exempt from the prohibition of insider trading placed on everyone else.
“We were sent here to serve the American people and look out for their interests—not to look out for our own interests,” Obama said when signing the legislation.
The law mandates that government employees and members of Congress report investment transactions within 45 days of making a trade, instead of the annual basis under the old law. Information in public financial disclosure reports must be made available on agency websites under the law, according to a fact sheet issued by the White House.
Good move. This needed to be done.
Sharing your posts on Facebook just got a billion times better, with integration into Facebook’s Timeline, News Feed, and Ticker.
New options include:
- Toggle “Send to Facebook” when posting.
- Share Replies on your Facebook Timeline.
- Share Likes on your Facebook Timeline.
(They even get lumped together so they’re not overwhelming!)You can find the new options in your blog settings. If your blog is already connected to Facebook, you’ll be automatically prompted to upgrade.
This is badass. Great work, Team Tumblr! It’s moves like this that make WordPress.com utterly irrelevant.
Smart move by Tumblr. The real problem with sharing FB posts in the past is that they got too heavy on the page, loading the pages with clutter. This really helps matters a lot.
The best Tumblr reading experience on your iPhone: Flipboard. For some reason the simple act of flipping just works a heckuva lot better for the simple act of reading than the infinite scroll of Tumblr’s own app. If it had just a couple more options, it’d be perfect. It’s surprising, actually, because we think Flipboard’s overrated on the iPad. It launched on the iPhone about a week ago.
The market was created by Apple. That doesn’t mean there couldn’t be a strong No. 2 player.Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman • Reversing course entirely on two of former CEO Leo Apotheker’s key decisions as CEO — the departure of the tablet market (and the ensuing lulz) and the spinning off of the PC market. As for the latter, Whitman claims it would’ve been far too expensive — it would’ve cost billions and would’ve proven extremely inefficient. “If you try to hive a division off, it’s really hard because you almost have to recreate the whole thing,” she said. Will this be enough? source (via • follow)
Not so fas … er … Qwikster. Netflix just ditched its idiotic plan to split up its two halves into two literal companies. Good for them. It was a stupid move. “We underestimated the appeal of the single web site and a single service,” noted Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey. “We greatly underestimated it.” Guess some stoner suddenly has a useless Twitter account. EDIT: It should be noted that Hastings declined an interview request for Brian Stelter’s article.
That’s different from being a content company, although Yahoo is that, too (see Associated Content, which is a giant content farm). While the company under Carol Bartz had a lot of trouble figuring out which direction it wanted to go, killing or neutering popular products along the way, this move effectively shows where Yahoo plans to put its eggs in the future — with journalism. ABC News, which has a reasonably strong online presence, nonetheless doesn’t have one as diverse as Yahoo does. This is what AOL HuffPo has been trying to do to some degree, but Yahoo’s reporting is starting to show some serious chops that might make it better-suited for such a merger. They’ve broken at least one major story — the University of Miami’s booster scandal — and have put a ton of emphasis on quality news. Yahoo has needed focus for a while. This could be it, guys.
Meg Whitman reportedly on track to become HP’s new CEO: Many people compared Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman during the 2010 election, due to their tech executive backgrounds and their high-profile rookie political campaigns. Soon, they’ll have another reason. source
The speed at which it disappeared from inventory has been stunning. We have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand.A statement from Hewlett-Packard • Revealing that the company’s late-round success with the HP TouchPad was enough that they’re going to produce more of them and sell them at fire-sale prices. Which is hilarious, and tells us all that the decision to stop selling them was perhaps a little too rash. Good work, HP! source (via • follow)
But seriously … I am not kidding.
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Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]
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And none of this half-appeasing Cookie Monster crap that SNL did either. We want the whole enchilada.
Yo, AP, you should consider replacing your laughable child-like iPad app with this thing, because it’s actually kind of innovative and stuff. And it uses HTML5. Basically, this is the coolest thing the AP has ever done. source
Associated Press creates HTML5 timeline app that doesn’t suck
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