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Tumblr users are advised to be careful who they become friends with and what links they click on, especially if they’re posted by a customer whose only messages read “follow me, I follow back.”
That’s exactly how the latest Tumblr phishing campaign begins. A shady user starts following random... |
22 May 2012
05:31 GMT |
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The “Keep Calm and Play the Tumblr Dating Game” scam is making the rounds again on Tumblr, trying to dupe unsuspecting customers into signing up for an affiliate marketing scheme that can earn the fraudsters a decent amount of money.
GFI came across a couple of examples in which potential victims are req... |
21 May 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Tumblr, like Twitter before it, is turning to advertising to generate revenue after saying it was out of the question, absolutely the last option, for years. And, just like Twitter, Tumblr plans to make the best of its assets and have the ads be actual content, i.e. "promoted" posts.
The plan is to have branded Tumb... |
19 April 2012
07:54 GMT |
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Internet users who want to access Tumblr.com and mistakenly write Tublr.com are taken to a site that greets them with a message that reads “Congratulations Youtube user.”
GFI experts inform that the shady site doesn’t serve malware, instead it promises visitors fabulous prizes such as iPads, and hu... |
13 April 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Tumblr, the incredibly popular blogging platform, has just updated its Android app and, for once, you'll actually want to use it. It's not just better than the mobile website, perhaps even the main site, it's one of the best looking and sharpest mobile apps around. The app is available in Google Play ... |
11 April 2012
06:21 GMT |
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One of the most popular apps for Android devices that allows users to publish texts, quotes, chats, links and such on the Internet, Tumblr, has just been updated to version 3.0. The team behind the application completely redesigned the interface, which looks more stylish and crispier. In addition, notifications for ... |
10 April 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Tumblr's explosive growth hasn't been surprising for a while, but the latest stats are impressive nonetheless. The site now counts 20 billion posts hosted and almost 50 million individual blogs.
Granted, 50 million blogs does not equal 50 million bloggers as many people curate more than one blog, but that&... |
28 March 2012
11:11 GMT |
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One the one hand, Pinterest is simply exploding and is being used by huge swaths of new people each month. On the other hand, it's election year in the US and current president Barack Obama has been ramping up his online campaigning efforts.
Put the two together and you get Obama's official Pinterest page.... |
28 March 2012
07:11 GMT |
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WordPress.com is making it easier than ever to create a new post no matter where you are on the site. When inspiration strikes, all you have to do is hit the New Post button in the top toolbar and you're on your way.
The feature is actually pretty impressive, it's certainly eye catching. Hit the new post b... |
2 March 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Tumblr has shot up in the last year and it's become one of the biggest blogging platforms out there. It owes a lot of its success to its simplicity so it shouldn't be that surprising that it's missing features that may seem standard.
The site has now just debuted an interesting if obvious feature, Fan... |
5 January 2012
06:10 GMT |
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Barack Obama, unsurprisingly, is gearing up for the 2012 elections with an even broader assault on online media than the first time around. He's set up shop on new platforms that gained popularity, Tumblr for example, and now's going mobile with his new Instagram account.You shouldn't be expecting too ... |
4 January 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Tumblr is undoubtedly on an ascending trend, and since this means it gets more and more publicity, the micro-blogging platform also caught the attention of spammers. Officials with the company acknowledge the issue and insist they are working on fixing it.If one is to explore the official Tumblr blog, there is nothin... |
31 October 2011
17:57 GMT |
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Back in 2008 it was Facebook and, gasp, MySpace. In 2012, Barack Obama is betting on Tumblr. And everything else online of course. The current and prospective future President of the US has set up home on Tumblr to spearhead another victory.Thankfully, Obama, or rather his campaign team, aims to make the most of Tumb... |
25 October 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Tumblr has announced a massive new funding round, raising $85 million, 63 million Euro, at an estimated valuation of at least $800 million, 590 million Euro. It's the biggest sum the site has ever raised and it says the money will help it fuel the growth it's been seeing in recent years, in the past year in... |
27 September 2011
04:40 GMT |
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In the world of Facebook and Twitter, two sites that have Web 2.0 written all over them are not only making by, but growing at huge rates. Blogging, for the everyday user, lost its appeal years ago, but Tumblr's take on has led it into becoming one of the fastest growing community-driven sites around.Same goes f... |
5 September 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Being a micro-blogging platform, Tumblr may not be able to compare with Facebook and Twitter in terms of popularity or accessibility, but it still manages to grow at an accelerated rate: it got more than 13 million unique visitors in July.Since Tumblr targets a totally different audience than the ones of the aforeme... |
31 August 2011
15:06 GMT |
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Tumblr is the hottest thing in blogging for years. Granted, it's not a traditional, full-blown blogging platform, but its simplicity and focus on social interactivity have paid off, Tumblr's latest stats are truly impressive.About a month ago, Tumblr reported that it was seeing about 250 million daily page ... |
28 June 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Security researchers warn about new phishing attacks targeting Tumblr users that have already compromised thousands of accounts.Users are lured with messages promising them adult content, however, when they click on the advertised links, they are redirected to fake Tumblr login pages that read "This page contains adu... |
28 June 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Tumblr, the relatively young simple blogging platform, is growing like there's no tomorrow. The site just announced that it's now getting 250 million page views per day, according to directly measured data from Quantcast. To put this in perspective, Tumblr got this kind of traffic in a month in 2009.Every n... |
18 May 2011
04:40 GMT |
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WordPress has been around for ages now, but it has really started to soar last year. Millions of blogs were created, it grew by more than 60 percent in 2010. And it keeps on adding new blogs, it's now getting close to 20 million.By themselves, the numbers are certainly impressive, were it not for Tumblr's t... |
11 May 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Flickr has gradually become the favorite service used to share one's images and to show off photography skills to visitors from all over the world. This task has just gotten easier since several new sharing options have been recently introduced.Due to the new changes, users will simply need to upload their file... |
31 March 2011
12:40 GMT |
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Tumblr, one of the most popular blogging platforms nowadays, has recently followed the suggestion of a well-known cartoonist and adopted the sketch of three 'Tumbeasts' to illustrate their downtimes.Tumblr fans are well aware of the fact that December 2010 brought a 24-hour outage that prevented them from ... |
25 January 2011
16:32 GMT |
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With Tumblr's rather spectacular meltdown from a couple of weeks ago, a test of the reliability of blog hosting platforms seems spot on. Pingdom did just such a test and the results, though not exactly surprising are interesting. The most reliable blogging platform is also the oldest, Blogger, while the least re... |
20 December 2010
11:26 GMT |
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Tumblr has been getting plenty of attention lately, though not necessarily for the best of reasons. A 24 hour outage left quite a few people without their daily taste of their favorite blogs and raised questions about the company's ability to scale. But there is good news as well, Tumblr just closed a hefty fund... |
18 December 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Tumblr, the popular blogging platform, is finally up and running again after more than 24 hours of downtime. Technical issues took down the entire infrastructure and engineers scrambled to fix the problems and get the site back up. Unfortunately, the recovery process was a long one as the engineers had to manually re... |
7 December 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Tumblr, the popular blogging platform, has been down for close to 16 hours now, leaving users to scramble to Twitter and Facebook to air their frustrations. The site greets visitors with an error message and a promise to return "shortly." Of course, 16 hours later, "shortly" is starting to get a whole new meaning."We... |
6 December 2010
11:52 GMT |
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Tumblr, one of the hottest blogging platform around, has been getting some positive buzz this year. Traffic is surging and rumors say that it just closed a new round of funding netting it $20 million to $30 million at a valuation of $130 million to $140 million or more, depending on the source.There is some volatilit... |
20 November 2010
06:34 GMT |
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The Tumblr and 4chan websites suffered various downtimes after its members decided to attack each other with distributed denial of service and images of cute kittens.The 4chan image board is the birthplace of many Internet memes and is responsible for advancing many others, such as the LOLcat phenomenon - the posting... |
15 November 2010
11:58 GMT |
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There have been a couple of new developments in the past week regarding the Twitter API and, surprisingly, they don't really have anything to do with Twitter at all. Rather they have to do with 'old school' blogging platforms WordPress and Tumblr adopting the Twitter API as their own. What this means ... |
19 December 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Up-and-coming microblogging platform Tumblr has posted some impressive stats for July, along with its claim that it's “taking over the world.” The biggest number, 255 million pageviews in July, does make a splash, even if it may not be entirely accurate. Still, the site is also growing at a fast pace... |
6 August 2009
03:44 GMT |
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