January 2012
24 posts
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…
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 Calgary, Canada. Back in 1996, they created a binaural audio demo entitled Virtual Barber Shop for a client.
On January 1, 2011, awesomaticeric shared the Virtual Barber Shop, and today it has over 150,000 notes.
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.
December 2011
17 posts
“It’s not interesting to me to just make (users) laugh or entertain them,” said Price. “I want to set up little challenges and have them make things; have them go off, come back and throw it into the zeitgeist. To me, that’s what Tumblr’s about.” The ability to ‘make things’ is how Tumblr differentiates itself. Using the platform, one can be creative. “I’m hoping that what I can do is sort of trickle down and set a tone that this is a place of open, free expression. And creativity.”
—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 prepped and tested over the last few months and we’re expecting to migrate this week.
We’ll have more information shortly. Please accept our deepest apologies.
I Work For The Internet →
iworkfortheinternet.org
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 American innovation in its tracks.
To make this clear to Congress, we’ve built IWorkForTheInternet.org to show the world how many of our careers depend on the Internet.
If you work for the Internet, please add yourself and spread the word.
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 put to a vote by Friday. We’ll be making a serious push this week to make sure Congress hears our concerns.
We’ll keep you updated on how you can join in the effort. Please stay tuned!
November 2011
9 posts
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.
Tumblr Numbrs: The Rapid Rise of Social Blogging →
mashable.com
Neat! Thanks, Mash. :)
