Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous's Ass

Jay Parkinson MD:

How come Posterous is eating dust from a small startup started by a high school dropout?

The answer is as easy as it is counter-intuitive: Tumblr is a New York company and Posterous is a Silicon Valley company.

Or, to put it another way: Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product.

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  1. soosixty reblogged this from jonathanmoore
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    ‘Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” says Steve Jobs, Apple’s C.E.O. ”People think...
  3. rafer reblogged this from heyitsnoah and added:
    Rafer sez: The whole discussion is pretty silly and entirely fallacious. Posterous’ original plan had little or nothing...
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  10. heyitsnoah reblogged this from jayparkinsonmd and added:
    While I don’t disagree with any of the stuff they mention in this post, I think there’s also
  11. brianvan reblogged this from jayparkinsonmd and added:
    works in NYC if there aren’t any multidiscliplinary wonders here?
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  14. caterpillarcowboy reblogged this from jayparkinsonmd and added:
    much younger company....couple years on them, IIRC. Really, I think
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