Pretty much exaclty what I expected the creator of Tumblr to be like. Exactly.
Figures that Ruby/Ruby on Rails fanatics would be the first to jump on as well.
My Tumblr dashboard is getting a little clogged. Not simply from new and existing features or the relentless postings of people I don’t actually pay attention to or my own repetitive musings or reposted Twitter updates, but a combination of those things.
So I am cleaning it up. If I stop following you, I am sorry. It’s you, not me.
Looks like someone was tired of a free site taking a piece of their pie. TypePad (or SixApart I suppose) just launched a Tumblr clone. The interface needs some work but the feature set is nice. I’m not about to jump ship, but I suspect brand recognition is going to get TypePad Micro some good publicity.
I was checking out a blogging service called Squarespace today. I love the setup. I like the layout, and I even like the philosophy of ‘pay for what you get’. I just can’t bring myself to pay for a blogging service. I don’t post enough, nor do I consider myself important enough to have a paid blog. Even if it is only $8/mo.
I actually used to pay $5/mo for TypePad when I was in college and Wordpress was no longer doing it for me. It was a great service and the first one to offer stats on the iPhone, but it just doesn’t make sense to pay for something that you want to make free (disregard how hypocritical that might seem considering that I pay yearly for Flickr, even if it is far less expensive).
How does a site like Tumblr, which prides itself on not having adds that obfuscate the layout, monetize? Doesn’t it worry you that the community you contribute to so much every day is resting on the scaffold of a free service that has no incoming funding that doesn’t have strings attached?
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