Amit Chowdhry | December 12, 2011 | 352 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Ke$ha, Tumblr
Put Your Beard In My Mouth from Magic Seed Productions on Vimeo.
Pop artist Ke$ha has launched a Tumblr blog called Put Your Beard In My Mouth. The Tumblr blog is filled with photos of her with beards in her mouth. This website was not actually made by a Ke$ha fan — it is run by her. [Jezebel]
Amit Chowdhry | November 16, 2011 | 425 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Tumblr, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, United States Congress
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on October 26, 2011 by Representative Lamar Smith [R-TX] and 12 initial co-sponsors. This bill is intended to help U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders fight online piracy of intellectual property.

Amit Chowdhry | October 24, 2011 | 376 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Barack Obama, The White House, Tumblr

President Barack Obama is campaigning for the 2012 election to serve another four years. Obama’s campaign team has joined Tumblr to tell stories, share jokes, etc. “There will be trolls among you: this we know. We ask only that you remember that we’re people—fairly nice ones—and that your mother would want you to be polite,” wrote the campaign team. [Obama's Tumblr]
Amit Chowdhry | September 26, 2011 | 1,010 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Chernin Group, David Karp, Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Richard Branson, Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, Tumblr, Union Square Ventures

Tumblr is a popular blogging service that has raised $85 million in a new round of funding. Tumblr is best known for simple blogging tools to post photos, videos, songs, etc. The investment in this round was led by Greylock Partners. Insight Venture Partners, the Chernin Group, Richard Branson, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Sequoia Capital also participated in this round.

Riley Kennysmith | August 10, 2011 | 464 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Blogger, Flickr, Instagram, Klout, Last.fm, Tumblr

Today is a big day for Klout. The social influence calculator just added five new networks to its algorithms, bringing their measurement possibilities to 10 total networks. Adding Tumblr, Blogger, Flickr, Last.fm and Instagram to the already-included Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and YouTube means that some Klout users are about to see a huge jump in their scores. The staff blog reminds users that “connecting an account will never lower your Score, but it may increase it as we can give you credit for your influence in that network.” TechCrunch notes that Google+ is still missing from the list but that it should be on its way soon.

Amit Chowdhry | August 10, 2011 | 2,021 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Tumblr

Even though the riots in London are a serious issue, sometimes you cannot help but add some humor into serious issues. Photoshop definitely helps with that process. Tumblr blog Photoshoplooter has taken some of the original looting photos and added some funny items into them using Photoshop. Check out the gallery below:

Amit Chowdhry | January 27, 2011 | 2,056 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Matthew Inman, TheOatmeal.com, Tumblr

This is a huge win for The Oatmeal founder Matthew Inman. Tumblr has agreed to use an image created by Matthew Inman, the founder of TheOatmeal.com. This image is the equivalent of Twitter’s “fail whale,” or an image that appears when the website is down.

Amit Chowdhry | December 19, 2010 | 1,002 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, Tumblr, Union Square Ventures

Tumblr, the blog platform based in New York City, that is known to be used by hipsters has raised $30 million in Series D funding. Tumblr now has more in funding than one of their biggest rivals, Automattic, the parent company of open source blog platform WordPress. Tumblr’s $30 million Series D funding was invested by Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Sequoia Capital: Sequoia put in $20 million, Union Square put in $5 million, and Spark Capital put in $5 million. Rumor has it that Tumblr now has a valuation of $155 million. [ReadWriteWeb]