Chilling Effects Clearinghouse. Internet Meme Database. Best Tumblr Blogs: 33 Tumblrs You NEED To Follow. Tumblr continues to grow and new features just keep coming -- the latest being an an Android app and third-party iPad app.
And now this for the social network based in New York: Tumblr hit 1 billion posts today. Its staff acknowledged the mark in a Tumblr post, stating, "The things you do with Tumblr continue to blow our minds. :)" Tumblr's rapid ascent in some ways mirrors that of Twitter, which made headlines when it hit the 1 billion tweets mark a year and a half ago. That number ballooned to 20 billion total tweets just last month. Not yet into Tumblr? Follow HuffPost on Tumblr: Huffington Post, HuffPost Comedy, HuffPost Tech, HuffPost World Do you follow any great Tumblr accounts?
Submit Your Favorite Tumblrs Please upload a screenshot from the Tumblr account you'd like to nominate.Just press command + shift + 4 on a Mac or follow instructions here for a PC. loading... What Not to Wear to Stores. Is This the Best Startup Launch Video Ever? A dollar a month for razors, shipped to your door?
Most thrifty guys and gals who wield a blade in the bathroom won't need much convincing that that's a good idea for a startup. But how to ensure that they hear about it, and that they have enough confidence in the company to sign up? Simple: create a funny YouTube video — one with so much swagger, sight gags and bear costumes that it seems poised to go viral. That's the apparent strategy behind Dollar Shave Club, a startup from LA-based Incubator Science. The company just scored its first $1 million in funding from heavyweight VCs including Andreesen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins.
Dollar Shave Club is the brainchild of Michael Dubin, the suave guy explaining the concept. If there's one lesson we'd like CEOs to learn from the Dollar Shave Club, it is this: don't take yourselves and your product so seriously. Dubin isn't the only entrepreneur to find success solely on the basis of a well-crafted video. Mercedes Rolls Out Invisible Car. When Mercedes wanted to promote its new fuel cell vehicle, instead of placing it squarely in front of everyone in the world, the company decided to make the car invisible.
We have video. In this clever publicity stunt, Mercedes wanted to emphasize that its F-Cell vehicle has no exhaust emissions, making it virtually invisible to the environment. If you take a look at the gallery below, you'll see how these clever dudes did it: by placing a mat of LEDs across one side of the vehicle and mounting a video-shooting Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR camera on the other side. We saw a Halloween costume like this once. Mount an iPad on your belly, surround it with costuming that looks like a hole, place a webcam on your back shooting backward, and then feed that video into the iPad.
Mercedes is doing basically the same trick. Mercedes says its hydrogen-powered drive system is "ready for series production," but other reports have its commercialization set for 2014. Horsemaning: The New Planking.