February 2012
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There's still time to nominate your Tumblr blog...
The Shorty Awards, honoring the top content producers on the social web, are once again presenting the 2nd annual Tumblr of the Year Shorty Award. The winner will be honored at their ceremony in March in NYC. This year the Shorty’s are also honoring the best Tumblr Brand Presence.
Last year the ceremony was hosted by The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi, and past winners include Conan...
For several hours this evening, an issue resulting from a software upgrade caused the Dashboard to be slow or unresponsive for many users. While your blogs were not directly affected, we know that incidents like this are inexcusable.
We’re incredibly sorry and appreciate your patience with us tonight.
January 2012
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Look Back at 2011: Most Popular Themes
Tumblr gives you complete control over all aspects of your blog, and once you know some HTML, you can make them look pretty much any way you want! On the other hand, many of us would rather benefit from the skills of the thousands of brilliant designers whose work is featured in the Tumblr Theme Garden.
The top themes of 2011 were…
The Minimalist
Inspire Well
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Look Back at 2011: Most Popular Audio Post
Binaural recording is a method of recording sound that uses two microphones to create a 3-D stereo sound sensation of actually being in the room with the performers or instruments. This effect is often created using a technique known as “Dummy head recording”, wherein a mannequin head is outfitted with a microphone in each ear.
QSound Labs is an audio technology company based in...
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Look Back at 2011: Most Creative Photosets
July 14th, 2011, marked the debut of our upgraded Photosets feature. Within minutes, the Tumblr community was using it in ways we never imagined. Here are five of our favorite creative Photosets from 2011.
Fireworks shared by keisotsu.
Friendly Fire shared by thefrogman.
Every Single Day shared by lulinternet.
Time in the Library shared by yukuyulan.
Godspeed shared by Photojojo.
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December 2011
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“It’s not interesting to me to just make (users) laugh or entertain them,” said...”
– Josh Sternberg sat down to chat with Topherchris about his role as Community Manager at Tumblr
Blogs hosted on custom domains just suffered an outage lasting 1.5 hours. The culprit was a badly configured network device operated by one of our service providers, making the issue difficult for our engineers to resolve quickly.
Our custom domain infrastructure is unfortunately a holdover from the architecture we established more than four years ago. Its state-of-the-art replacement has been...
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The Washington Post: SOPA visual petition riles up... →
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I Work For The Internet →
We work for the Internet. And we’re guessing many of you do too. Whether it’s researching, selling, coding, supporting, designing — so many of our careers depend on the Internet.
One argument that’s been made to Congress is that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is needed to protect American jobs. In truth, the new liabilities this bill would impose on startups could stop...
SOPA Update
This weekend, we hosted a meeting at Tumblr HQ with top technology companies, politicians and advocacy groups to coordinate our effort to reform or prevent the well-intentioned but deeply flawed Stop Online Piracy Act from becoming law. You guys have already made a huge impact in Washington, but the legislation still poses a threat.
This week is crucial for action as the bill may be finalized and...
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November 2011
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Holy crap — you guys are averaging 3.6 calls per second, and rising!
You’re making a real difference. Don’t let up. Spread the word.
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Tumblr Numbrs: The Rapid Rise of Social Blogging →
Neat! Thanks, Mash. :)