Unwrapping Tumblr: Tips, Tutorials & News

via mediaite: Yumblr? What Some Of Tumblr’s Best Bloggers Think...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:38:42 -0500

via mediaite:

Yumblr? What Some Of Tumblr’s Best Bloggers Think About Yahoo’s $1.1 Billion Purchase

via marissamayr: The great workplace dilemmas of our time… I...

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:38:36 -0500

via marissamayr:

The great workplace dilemmas of our time…

I love that Marissa leaned into that “work from home” hoopla and hyperbole.

News!

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:19 -0500

via staff:

Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.

Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.

So what’s new? Simply, Tumblr gets better faster. The work ahead of us remains the same – and we still have a long way to go! – but with more resources to draw from.

Yahoo is the original Internet company, and Marissa and her team share our dream to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas. I couldn’t be more excited to have her help. We also share a vision for Tumblr’s business that doesn’t compromise the community and product we love. Plus both our logos end with punctuation!

As always, everything that Tumblr is, we owe to this unbelievable community. We won’t let you down.

Fuck yeah,
David

The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo’s board...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:59:00 -0500

The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo’s board approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr.

Tumblr And Yahoo: Latest Details On The Imminent Deal: “By...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:33:31 -0500

Tumblr And Yahoo: Latest Details On The Imminent Deal: “By the end of this weekend, Tumblr founder David Karp will most likely be $250 million richer and Yahoo founder [sic] Marissa Mayer will be able to say she outmaneuvered her old friends at Google, not to mention Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft.”

“…Inside Tumblr, the thinking is that Yahoo’s offer is likely to be as good as it gets because none of other big players need what Tumblr offers — its youth, its growth, its high levels of mobile engagement — quite so badly.” — Jeff Bercovici, Forbes

Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:55:18 -0500

Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low” [but “acquisition… likely in the cards for Tumblr”]…“Tumblr employees have been told that the company only has enough funds to operate for a few more months, as its costs far exceed the limited revenue it earns. Tumblr pulled in $13 million in 2012, but has accelerated its advertising offering in hopes of hitting $100 million in revenue this year. The money’s not coming in fast enough to support its expenses though. Employees were recently told not to be concerned, though, because the company is expecting to be bought.” — TechCrunch’s Josh Constine

via thisistheverge: Yahoo reportedly eyeing Tumblr for possible...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:59:00 -0500

via thisistheverge:

Yahoo reportedly eyeing Tumblr for possible $1 billion acquisition

Also, from the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital:
“According to sources close to the situation, that could mean a strategic alliance and investment in or outright buy of perhaps the coolest Internet company of late: Tumblr. Sources said the talks were serious, but any kind of deal — of course — could come to naught.”

May 17, 2013 Update: ”All Things D” reports Yahoo’s board is meeting on May 19 to consider a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr.

Send favorite Tumblr posts to your friend’s email inbox —...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:22:00 -0500

Send favorite Tumblr posts to your friend’s email inbox — just like this one in my Gmail. Click the new sharing icon on a dashboard post and select Email. Enter the email address and optional message and click Send.

Tumblr modified the design for the archive (and the mass post...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:38:00 -0500

Tumblr modified the design for the archive (and the mass post editor).

via socialmediakb: Tutorial - Secondary Blogs Note that once...

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:39:00 -0500

via socialmediakb:

Tutorial - Secondary Blogs

Note that once you have a secondary blog, Tumblr does not offer a way to make it your primary blog. If you need an additional primary blog, you can sign up with Tumblr again under a different email address.

support: We’ve been getting lots of questions about a new...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:19:04 -0500

support:

We’ve been getting lots of questions about a new browser extension called Babblr. Mostly from users asking if Tumblr created Babblr, and if it’s safe to use. We wanted to reach out and explain.

Tumblr has no association with or relationship to Babblr. Babblr is a browser extension developed and maintained by third parties, and isn’t supported by Tumblr. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to the Babblr developers directly - we cannot pass messages along to them. We also cannot say how safe or unsafe any third-party applications, like Babblr, may be, nor can we make any statements about how they behave or what information they collect about you.

Tumblr dashboard timeline: 2007Feb. 2007: Version 1.0 launch •...

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:50:00 -0500

Tumblr dashboard timeline:

2007
Feb. 2007: Version 1.0 launch • Mar. 2007: Reblogs (v2.0) • Nov. 2007: Audio posts and tags (v3.0)

2008
June 2008: Notifications for follows/reblogs • Aug. 2008: Blue dashboard revamp (v4.0) • Nov. 2008: Likes introduced

2009
Jan. 2009: Dashboard revision (v5.0) • Feb. 2009: Twitter integration; Drafts and queue • June/July 2009: Endless scrolling & photosets • Aug./Sept. 2009: Tracked tags; Publish to Facebook; upload images to text posts

2010
Jan./Feb. 2010: Asks; replies & photo replies • June 2010: Mega-Editor • Oct. 2010: Queue revision

2011
June 2011: Dashboard unified inbox (v6.0) • Oct. 2011: Customize template revisions

2012
Jan./Feb. 2012: Fan Mail; 1MB GIFs; Post icons • Sept./Oct. 2012: Dashboard & tag search changes

2013
Jan. 2013: Dashboard posting revamp • Mar. 2013: New tag & blog search

via staff: Now you can do more than just reblog when you find...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:04:00 -0500

via staff:

Now you can do more than just reblog when you find something you love on Tumblr for iPhone and iPad.

Share posts via Twitter, Facebook, and more

Save stuff for later using Instapaper and Pocket

Email an entire post with our beautiful new template

Close photos by flinging up or down!

GIFs animate while you scroll*

Search your Following list (it’s now alphabetized and grouped by first letter!)

Download the update

*iPad 2, 3 and 4, iPad Mini, iPod Touch 5th Generation, iPhone 4S and 5 only

Tumblr released its app for Windows Phone 8 today. Joe Fedewa...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:34:23 -0500

Tumblr released its app for Windows Phone 8 today. Joe Fedewa of WinSource.com offers a three-minute demo video.

Can Tumblr Ever Reel in Brands?“How is Tumblr going to...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:11:48 -0500

Can Tumblr Ever Reel in Brands?
“How is Tumblr going to convince brands it is a must-buy on the par of, say, Twitter. In the eyes of Laura Desmond, CEO of Starcom MediaVest, Twitter has gone from a nice to have to a must-buy in short order. Does anyone think Tumblr is on this path?” — Digiday’s Josh Sternberg

via staff: It’s been almost a year since our first sponsored...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:08:00 -0500

via staff:

It’s been almost a year since our first sponsored post appeared in Tumblr Radar. Since then, our fashion, entertainment, and brand partners have created some truly delightful blogs and racked up tens of millions of notes on their posts.

We’re incredibly proud of our partners’ creativity and have been constantly amazed by how well these creations can fit into our Dashboards. So today we’re bringing these posts over to our mobile apps.

It works very simply: Every now and then you’ll see posts from our partners as you scroll through your mobile Dashboard.

via danmeth: It occurred to me last night that this little head...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:13:21 -0500

via danmeth:

It occurred to me last night that this little head is seen by more people each day than anything else I’ve ever drawn. It’s the default Tumblr avatar.

For years I shared the same office space with David Karp, the wonderkind Internet entrepreneur. In April 2007, he walked over to my desk and asked me to design a little head logo for this new application he was building called “Tumblr.”

I drew a couple versions and he picked one.

It’s still the default avatar (for the time being!) I certainly didn’t realize how huge Tumblr would get or that I’d end up hosting my entire website on it. Tumblr is AWESOME!

Tumblr Dude, 2007-2013:
Tumblr recently retired Dan’s default avatar with four colorful geometric shapes.

Share an Unpublished Tumblr Draft: To give a sneak peek to a...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:42:00 -0500

Share an Unpublished Tumblr Draft:
To give a sneak peek to a post before it’s published to Tumblr, start by saving the post as a draft. Access your drafts then click the upper-right corner of the post. A page in your blog template appears. Copy and share the temporary URL of that page. Once published, the sneak-peek URL no longer works.

Iconic Tumblr: Tumblr recently added the ignore hand icon to its...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:53:00 -0500

Iconic Tumblr:
Tumblr recently added the ignore hand icon to its dashboard icons, as seen on messages in your inbox and on tag pages. Think “talk to the hand” and not “high five.”

Tumblr founder David Karp discusses the GIF renaissance on...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:26:00 -0500

Tumblr founder David Karp discusses the GIF renaissance on Tumblr (96‑second video).

Bonus video: David preserves his geek cred with “JIF” pronunciation.