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  5. Beaten by their own other product
... I guess.


Tumblr seems much like what VOX was aiming for: easy, free, theme-able social blogging. And it looks like Tumblr has trounced TypePad.


Tumblr's also got a lot of additional "social" features (e.g, reblogging content and tracking it across blogs) which I don't think Vox had, though. I'm not sure how instrumental those features have been in Tumblr's success, but I'm sure they haven't hurt.




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