Hasta La Gadget!

Stop what you’re doing right now and start scrolling through this Tumblr of colorful images of planes and bridges and mats and packaging and other everyday items morphing into each other. It’s called I’m Google, an ongoing art project that finds beautiful patterns in otherwise benign and boring images Google Image search results. More »

Tumblr is looking to implement advertisement on its mobile apps. The online-blogging service has seen its number of mobile users skyrocket in the past six months, and it plans on using that success as a monetizing tool. The Tumblr mobile-ads won’t be like those annoying pop-up ads featured in various free apps and games. Tumblr will instead just have “featured posts” for companies that join in on its program.

By monetizing its mobile app, Tumblr hopes that it will make its first annual profit. The service will let companies pay to promote their posts through Tumblr’s app. Lee Brown, head of sales for Tumblr, stated that the average advertising purchase on Tumblr is a little under six figures. By implementing mobile ads, Brown says, “We expect that the monetization will lead us to profitability this year.”

Though the “promoted posts” advertisement seems a bit unconventional, Tumblr is trying to keep its user-experience pleasant for everyone. Brown said, “We’re not really selling ads, we’re just promoting their content.” The promoted posts is a perfect medium to get companies more exposure to their products while also preserving the Tumblr experience. Brown says that the marketers will have to provide their campaign that, like any other Tumblr user post, will be circulated throughout the network. He says, “Marketers have become accustomed to buying scale as opposed to earning it.”

Tumblr gets over 16 billion monthly views spread around hundreds of blogs. The company can see a huge increase in revenue by implementing its new mobile ads feature. It’s very thoughtful of them to take its users consideration in mind when thinking of how they can generate revenue from ads. Brown stated that Tumblr, “is not going to get into the regular ad network.” It has found a win-win-win situation for itself, companies, and its users.

[via Bloomberg]

Mobile Ads are heading to Tumblr is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Microblogging service and teen-favorite Tumblr has quietly scaled up its iOS app age warning, giving the latest version a 17+ recommendation in what appears to be a preemptive defense against Apple’s latest porn witch hunt. Tumblr for iOS was updated overnight to version 3.2.4 [iTunes link], but in addition to “small bug fixes” the refreshed app also demanded users confirm they are 17 or over.

The nature of the Tumblr service – following multiple other users, who either post or reblog images, text, video, audio, and links – means that the sort of content you see depends largely on the sort of people you follow. However, there’s plenty of adult content to be found, something which may have prompted Tumblr to take a more cautious approach to its app rating.

Apple has had a crack-down on erotica-filled apps in recent weeks, first yanking apps by 500px from the App Store after they were found to contain x-rated material, and then triggering a flurry of activity over at Twitter-run Vine which inadvertently made a sexual image an “editor’s pick.” Twitter blamed human error for the mistake, though the Vine app [iTunes link] is still rated at 12+ in the App Store.

Tumblr is yet to comment publicly on the decision to reclassify the app’s age rating, but it’s worth noting that the Android counterpart to the iOS software is still considered “low maturity” in Google’s Play store. Whether Tumblr’s move will be sufficient to avoid Apple’s ire this time around remains to be seen.

[via CNET]

Tumblr makes iPhone app 17+ over porn potential is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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These illustrated GIFs by artist Stephen Vuillemin are incredible. They’re rife with illegal or borderline-illegal activity, and many are in French. Even if you’re a total prude and you don’t understand a lick of French, you won’t be able to look away. More »

There’s a brand new wedding inspiration app in town by the name of OneWed and it’s about to take the iPad by storm. Not because it’s the most amazing app ever written, not because it does anything one function better than apps like Pinterest or Tumblr, but because it’s a non-stop one-stop-shop for wedding-related photos. And that’s it.

Back when the OneWed team formed their website for the desktop-based internet, they made it to be a blog, and they had honest-to-god bloggers writing for them on the daily. Speaking with TechCrunch about the history of the OneWed ecosystem, CEO John Scrofano noted this week that “We built [OneWed] on the back of this blogger model and the content we had produced…but what we were hearing our customers say is ‘we really love the pictures. Bloggers were writing all these articles for us, but really [users] just wanted the pictures.” Imagine that, right at the dawn of the tablet, too!

This company was originally called Nearlyweds, if you’re an old-school fan and remember such a thing, and is being re-launched as both OneWed.com and an iPad app that takes on the always lovely Massive Photo layout that you’ll be familiar with if you’re a fan of any number of photo blogging websites / apps. Here each product, wedding idea, and everything in-between is given its own page and links to relevant websites, details, and even connections to local retailers that have what you’re looking for in stock.

This app is completely free from the iTunes App Store right this minute and is currently available for iPad only. At the moment there’s no word of expansion to Android or the iPhone, but they’ve only just launched this month! Have a peek at let us know if you’re all about the wedding planning, even if you’ve already been wed, won’t get wed for a long number of years, or won’t get traditionally hitched ever!

OneWed wedding inspiration photos app heads to iPad is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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