Tumblr Charging $1 for Something Amazing?

What are they planning? The Tumblr community is always seeking recognition, which was evident when they launched Tumblarity, the Directories, Tumblog Tagging, etc. Everyone wants to be noticed and heard — that’s the whole point of blogging, right? I know I do.

We’re seeing glimmers of revenue generating models popping up from the Valentine’s Day program to the $9 promotion in the directories — and I’m guessing partnerships with larger organizations also provide a bit of cash flow as well. Now, after reading Fred Wilson’s blog — Tumblr seems to have a $1 thing that I would be happy to pay for. What is it though?

What would people pay $1 for on Tumblr?

- Advertisements on other tumblogs (creating an advertising network)?
- Featured placements throughout the site?
- Paying larger tumblogs to reblog posts (hope not)?
- Avatar add-ons shown on the dashboard?
- Tumblogs creating custom e-gifts to sell to their community?
- Allowing users to upload 1 song per day?

Question: What do you think Tumblr will be charging $1 for?

Another Cool Chrome Extension - Rapportive

The first Chrome extension that made me say wow was Extension.fm. Basically what it does is copies all the locations of the songs found on blogs and puts them in a nice iTunes like fashion right on your desktop. It’s genius and I use it everyday.

Now, today I found out about this new extension called Rapportive from David Lifson’s blog which made me do a double wow! I don’t know what the details are, but it basically finds all the social information for the people you e-mail and shows it right in your Gmail or Google Mail (if you use Apps). Instead of looking for Twitter accounts and Linkedin profiles for the folks you’re connecting with — it does all that for you and presents it right then and there. It’s genius and I think I’ll be using it everyday. :)