Tumblr Founder David Karp Slams Facebook's 'Vanilla' Design

Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp described Tumblr as a return to the early Web, in which every user could express his or her own style, crticizing the uniformity of current social networks in a talk Sunday at South by Southwest.

Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp described Tumblr as a return to the early Web, in which every user could express his or her own style, crticizing the uniformity of current social networks in a talk Sunday at South by Southwest.

“The Web started as a place that was wide, wide open. You were given a blank page and some crude tools that made it possible to create anything,” Karp said, aligning Tumblr with those early models.

“MySpace

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