Davidville | An invention company. 19 | February | 2007 | Davidville. More than 100 million blogs will be online in 2007. The count continues to double every 5.5 months. About half of the blogs created are ever maintained after being created. And fewer than 15% of blogs are updated at least once a week. (Technorati) That’s still gobs of great blogs out there. But for so many of us, it’s work. It’s quite like editing your school newspaper. Last year, a site called project.ioni.st showed us a completely different form. Sharing. The long editorials with meticulously formatted links and images we were used to seeing on blogs seemed absent. The editors seemed to post with zero obligations. A tumblelog isn’t better than a blog. It’s something we knew we wanted the moment we laid eyes on it. Yeah, it’s still a blog. Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream | Media.
David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 when he decided to cut the apron strings and move to Tokyo. With a smattering of Japanese and a sharp eye for computer code, the impatient Manhattan teenager embarked on a period of self-discovery. "I was holed up in the middle of this world where it was just me on the internet," Karp recalls. Within weeks, he had fine-tuned his computer skills and cooled on the idea of building robots. He wanted to be an entrepreneur. But there was one small problem: his voice. "I was so silly – I tried to be very formal and put on a deep voice to clients over the phone so I didn't have to meet them and give away how young I was," he says. "I lied about my age. Karp returned to the US with a fistful of contracts (drawn up by his father) and a list of executives' ears to bend. Now 25, Karp is at the helm of one of the internet's fastest growing startups.
It was time for Karp and Tumblr to grow up. But Karp is unconvinced. David Karp’s Vogue Moment: Tumblr Inventor Now Uniqlo Model. If you thought all Tumblr wonder boy David Karp could do with being “tall and skinny, with unflinching blue eyes and a mop of brown hair” who “speaks incredibly fast and in complete paragraphs” was invent the hottest microblogging social network on the planet, think again. Because now he’s moving in on the male modeling game. On their website, Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo is running a campaign of “New York Faces” to celebrate their new flagship store in midtown. Among them is Mr. Karp’s shiny, bright, innovative mug: With it is a video!
Mr. David Karp : «Tumblr pourrait être aussi connu que Twitter et Facebook» (Founder Stories) Why David Karp Started Tumblr: Blogs Don’t Work For Most People. In the never-ending debate between blogging and micro-blogging, Tumblr usually gets lumped in with Twitter and Facebook on the micro-blogging side. But Tumblr is actually somewhere in between the status bursts of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form publishing of WordPress-style blogs. If anything, it is more accurately described as micro-blogging than Twitter or Facebook because you actually produce short blog posts filled with images, links, and videos.
But the key to Tumblr’s incredible growth—it’s adding a quarter billion pageviews a week—is how easy it makes it to post something and reblog what your friends are posting. Tumblr CEO David Karp recently sat down with Chris Dixon for a Founder Stories interview in which explains how he started Tumblr four years ago as a reaction to other blogging tools out there. “All blogs took the same form,” he notes. “I wanted something much more free-form, much less verbose.” But don’t Twitter and Facebook lower those barriers even further? David Karp Quit School to Get Serious About Tumblr. Photo When David Karp was 14, he was clearly a bright teenager. Quiet, somewhat reclusive, bored with his classes at the Bronx High School of Science.
He spent most of his free time in his bedroom, glued to his computer. But instead of trying to pry him away from his machine or coaxing him outside to get some fresh air, his mother, Barbara Ackerman, had another solution: she suggested that he drop out of high school to be home-schooled. “I saw him at school all day and absorbed all night into his computer,” said Ms.
Ackerman, reached by phone Monday afternoon. “It became very clear that David needed the space to live his passion. Clearly. Now 26 years old, Mr. “When I first met David he was 20 years old and wearing sneakers and jeans,” said Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital, who was one of the first people to invest in Tumblr. Since founding Tumblr six years ago, Mr. Tall and willowy, with a mop of brown hair and piercing blue eyes, Mr. Mr. But Mr. Still, Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project.