As Tumblr founder David Karp has previously explained time and again, Tumblr wants to offer advertisers canvas and space for "creative brand advertising" – something he feels hasn't really had anywhere to live on the web.
The Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, in association with Information Technology Services, offers Canvas accessibility drop-in hours.
Last year Tesco started selling a poppy pizza, while Sainsbury offered canvas bags with the detachable symbol.
Part of the allure of unclaimed spaces is their radical potential to offer a blank canvas – but as Omar and I belatedly realised, nothing, and nowhere, starts from scratch.
Instead, Karp wants Tumblr to offer advertisers their own canvas and the space they need to create ads that will actually win awards, he says, the kind of content that one would find in traditional advertising.
"We wanted to offer them a really large canvas — time, a lot of space and money.
Virgin Islands Campground offers canvas-sided cottages as well as bicycle and snorkel rentals for exploration aboveground and undersea.
Each of them has value in their own right (StraighterLine with accreditation and Coursera with Ivy League content, for example), but obviously there could be a lot of value — if it's able to offer a comparable number of Ivies and community colleges — in Canvas' ability to offer a blend of MOOCs and accredited courses, especially as it already has a sizable network to leverage.
For example, if you're tired of attending a meeting that is just a series of updates, you can offer to canvas the team each week and develop a list of topics for the meeting agenda that will require real-time problem solving.
Feather Down Farms offer posh canvas "cottages" with proper beds, stoves and wooden floors on nine working farms across the UK.
New-builds tend to be cheap to heat and maintain, and offer a blank canvas to make your mark, and most come with a 10-year National House Building Council NHBCC) warranty that offers protection against structural defects and some types of damage.
