When they implement community tags, we'll know they are desperate.
Yeah I remember you talking about Python all that long time ago. You were saying how it was really crazy cool and the next big thing even though it was already big it was just going to get bigger and how you were, um, really good at it. I remember you had a lot of strong opinions and smart things to say about it. And stuff. That was a cool time that time.
It's crazy Yahoo! bought tumblr. It would be very difficult to look at $1B and say 'no thanks', even when you were pretty sure that Yahoo! would run it into the ground. Immediately, I would begin thinking about the other projects on the back burner, and what could be done with a truckload of money. The model makes sense in some ways, but the graveyard of success is a very weird thing. I think tumblr had to sell because it had so much VC investment, and was not bringing in revenue to match it. I'm sure the rationale is that Yahoo! has the ability to leverage blah blah blah. This would be difficult. Tom Waits and Bill Watterson kick ass.