Tumblr

Tumblr is a social networking website and micro-blogging platform founded by David Karp in 2006 and was launched 2007. Tumblr is now owned by Yahoo Inc after acquiring the business for a reported $1.1 billion USD in 2013 - not bad for a 7 year old business.

I have started to utilise Tumblr for some short form blogs as well as post links to Observations in an Undemocratic World and Travel Observations as Tumblr allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog format; users also have the ability to follow blogs and comment on people's blogs.

After some research, I learned that development of Tumblr began in 2006 during a two-week gap between contracts at Karp's software consulting company - he started a billion dollar company between projects, amzing. Apparently Karp had been interested in tumble-logs for some time, I'm still not exactly sure what a tumble log is, he was waiting for an established blogging platforms to introduce their own tumble-logging platform. As none had been released, Karp and Marco Arment began development on their own tumble-logging platform and, as they say - the rest is history.