Joined Digg 07/05/06 … 1 submission, 10 Diggs … then never returned.
Salon operates The Well, a subscription member-only discussion community. As other online communities and social networks emerged over the years, The Well’s subscriber base dwindled to 2,693, which did not bear financial promise.
— Probably couldn’t even pay the electric bill.
Things I Spend Money On (Online)
- Flickr $45 (2 years)
- Pinboard $25 (archive account, 1 year)
- Joyent $100 (host for maoxian.com, 1 year)
- Network Solutions $12? (domain name, 1 year)
- Screencast.com $100 (1 year, I should cancel)
- Pandora $35? (1 year, don’t use it much)
- eSignal $115? (1 month, incl. $18 in exchange fees)
- Witopia VPN $60 (1 year)
- ??? No doubt forgetting stuff
Things I would pay for if they asked:
- Gmail
- Tumblr
- Yahoo Finance (maybe)
Can you spot the Internet’s mainstream arrival?
Karp … founded Tumblr in 2007, aged 21, from the bedroom of his mother’s apartment in New York. Often described as Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress, Tumblr lets its users curate pictures, videos and text in one place online. The site gained 75,000 users in the first fortnight, and now hosts more than 42 million blogs.
— http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/29/tumblr-david-karp-interview
