Posted May 17, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
Google Glass recently received an injection of third-party app support. It was revealed at the company’s I/O conference this week that several third-party apps, or “glassware” as Google prefers to call them, are inbound from the likes of CNN, Elle,…
Posted April 26, 2013, 4:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
President Obama and his administration launched an official Tumblr page for the White House earlier today. The presence on Tumblr further bolsters the administration’s presence on social media which includes a Facebook account, Twitter account, YouTube channel and a Pinterest…
Posted March 27, 2013, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Tumblr recently surpassed the 100 million blog milestone according to a ticker on the company’s about page. The blogging platform has since confirmed the achievement as well as they fact that Tumblr blogs collectively contain more than 44.6 billion posts.
Posted December 4, 2012, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
Tumblr says it has addressed a vulnerability which allowed hackers to force visitors into unwittingly reposting an offensive, expletive-ridden message condemning the "tasteless" and "bourgeoisie" blog site. More than 8,600 users were affected -- Cnet, USA Today and The Verge were…
Posted November 27, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Many are aware that Tumblr is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet but now there’s some hard data to back up those claims. Web measurement outfit Quantcast claims the service is now among the top 10…
Posted October 26, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Popular blogging service Tumblr was hit with a massive service outage on Friday morning, shutting down millions of popular blogs in the process. Disruption was reportedly first noticed around 8:30 a.m. according to Down Right Now which uses official announcements…
Posted December 20, 2010, 4:36 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
Many choose to use a blogging service so that they do not have to bother setting up hosting for their content. That being said, not all blogging services are very reliable, according to a recent survey conducted by Royal Pingdom,…
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