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Introducing the new Tumblr Directory
We’ve been really inspired by the work of Kevin Rose and his team on their new self-organizing Twitter directory, WeFollow. The premise is simple: Everyone picks up to three tags to describe themselves, and the directory ranks everyone within each tag by their “follower” counts.
The result is an entirely community-organized directory. The problem is follower counts are a boring way to sort people, and rarely let anyone new surface for the community to discover. Which is why we just launched our new Tumblarity stat to quickly bubble-up blogs that are gaining momentum.
So here’s how the new Directory works: If your blog focuses on a particular subject, you can tag it. Blogs are then sorted within each tag by their current tumblarity.
Testing the Directory for the last couple weeks (using some rough filters), we’ve found thousands of interesting blogs we had no idea existed. And the constantly moving tumblarity ranks mean new people are always surfacing.
Please note: We’re leaving this feature in beta until next week. Until then, you can only pick two tags out of our pre-defined list. Afterwards, you’ll be able to use any three tags you define.
Between reblogging, search, Popular Stuff, the Map, and the new Directory, we’re pretty happy with all of the ways to explore and discover interesting people on Tumblr.
Let’s say Superman and Batman were sitting at a cafe, and Superman pulled out his communication device - the device being an iPhone 4S with Siri. And then Batman pulls out his Batphone. Would you say the Batphone trumps the iPhone? Watch this video and find out!
Does technology hurt or benefit the classroom? That is the question in an ongoing debate as more innovative advances in technology are coming to schools and classrooms, and most importantly to our students around the country.
“I’ve always focused on a couple of things,” Zuckerberg said. “One is having a clear direction for the company and what we build. And the other is just trying to build the best team possible toward that … I think as a company, if you can get those two things right—having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff—then you can do pretty well.” For Facebook, that last part has proven an understatement.
One of Steve Jobs’s famous recruiting techniques was to take potential hires on long walks around Palo Alto while sharing his vision for Apple. A Zuckerberg confidant says he’s adopted this tactic and done his idol one better. Near Facebook’s old headquarters in Palo Alto is a trail winding up into the mountains. Zuckerberg led recruits up this trail, the source says, and learned to time his pitch so the full “aha” would hit right as the hike culminates in a breathtaking view.
The team Zuckerberg has built at Facebook, one insider argues, is “pound for pound one of the two strongest management teams in the industry,” with the other being Apple’s. “That did not happen by accident. Mark worked his way through it, position by position.”
“Basically, there are two ways to build an organization,” a former Facebook employee explains. “You can be really, really good at hiring, or you can be really, really good at firing.” Zuckerberg has been really good at firing. “We made some hires that weren’t the right ones. And we were pretty good at correcting that quickly. Mark deserves the credit for identifying and following through with that.” In other cases, key personnel who were good fits simply got outgrown by the company. It can be even harder to jettison those kinds of employees, whose contributions have earned them the loyalty of business partners and colleagues. But here too Zuckerberg did not flinch.
A study by White and Weatherall (2000) found that the following themes were related to computer use in older people:
- Computer technology was connected with other interests and hobbies
- Mental and social stimulation were seen as important for positive ageing
- Cost had an impact on the use and…
