A transmission from the deep south.
For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.
— Good advice from Tumblr co-founder David Karp, in a frank and wide-ranging interview with Inc.’s Liz Welch.
Hot off the wire, here’s Paul Deady’s radio interview with Tumblr founder David Karp while he was in New Zealand for the Web09 conference this past week.
Working from the Tumblr offices today. There is a huge Orwellian plasma TV with David Karp’s face on it. Not a joke.
— Andrew Wilkinson on Twitter, probably referring to this. Uh guys, at least down here in New Zealand, the time displayed on that thing is slow by exactly eight hours. And David says hi, he’s having a great time despite spending too long in the sun.
John Ballinger has been tinkering all weekend and here’s the result: a great wee promo video for his upcoming Web09 conference in Auckland on April 17-18. I’m super excited to hear Steve Smith and Dan Rubin talk, but perhaps best of all, Tumblr’s creator David Karp will be delivering the closing keynote address at the two-day event. The cut-off for buying tickets is in two weeks, don’t miss out!
If you’ve visited David Karp’s Tumblr page recently you’ll see he’s privy to two new features that I’m guessing will be made available to the rest of us in due course.
Firstly, as alluded to in May, David’s (and Marco’s) URLs have dropped the post/ portion and now contain just the domain name, post ID and optional summary text or “slug”. To remain backwards compatible the URLs still support the addition of the missing portion: the longer URL redirects to the newer, shorter version.
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