#tech bubbles

It's an ever-changing landscape in the tech world and what you may like one year could be the next year's shuttered service.

Posterous is one such case. 

For a while there it was one of my favorite places for blogging from but is now closed as the team behind it move on to something else.

Then again, there's a few services long since gone from the time I first started on the internet way back in 1996.  What remained have now been transformed, such as Hotmail, which now becomes Outlook.com.

Actually, there was a time when Hotmail was the big hotmail service separate from anything Microsoft, then it got bought by the Microsoft crowd and with that came a lot of spam.

I don't think I remember getting much spam in the pre-Microsoft sale version of Hotmail.

Still, it too sails into the sunset.

So what happens when Yahoo buys Tumblr?  Will it be autonomous of other Yahoo properties?  Will it stay as a name for at least a few years?  Will the character of Tumlr be changed by being part of the broader Yahoo portfolio?

Everyone's wondering that.

I really do hope Yahoo handles this well and enables Tumblr to shine and improve...and with it drag Yahoo into a greater resurgence.

Still, there's a reason I tend to stick to the bigger platforms and services now (Twitter, Facebook and Google+) as they're less likely to be bought out or shuttered when I least want them to be.

When I started in social media four years ago, there were some great services, but some have become irrelevant, some have been bought out, a few shuttered, and there was so many of them that it was hard to find time to update on the smaller ones.

Then again, someone might surprise me a year or so down the track and perhaps even buy out Facebook.