Written on 15th May 2009
2 COMMENTS Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Inspired by Kevin Rose and Addison Kowalski’s ‘WeFollow’ Twitter directory, Tumblr have launched their own – remarkably similar – Tumblr directory.
The concept is almost identical. Decide on three tags your tumbleblog fits into (eg. music, photography, design), complete the form and that’s all there is to it.
The blogs are order by ‘tumblarity’ (popularity), and I must admit I’m rather impressed with the number of subscribers some of the tumblr’s have.
Tumblr founder David Karp points that the directory will be in beta for approximately two week and until then you’ll only be able to select two tags from their current selection.
Written on 31st March 2009
10 COMMENTS Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Tumblr, the tumblelogs platform, have released a neat little Question and Answers facility.
Simply end your post title with a “?” and instead of comments, people can leave you answers to your question. It’s uncertain whether the feature will lead to a section of the site devoted to it. What’s more likely is that someone thought it would be a bit of fun to try out and they’ll see how things go from there! :)
Whilst I still can’t convince myself to commit to Tumblr, mainly because of the awful search rankings for most tumblr blogs (try finding the official Tumblr blog via Google)..it’s definitely a neat little feature all the same.
Written on 16th January 2009
0 COMMENTS Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Tumblr the tumblelog/blogging platform has released the 5th iteration of it’s service. Tumblr v5, as they are calling it, has a whole host of enhancement and new features.
As always, they’ve made a few design tweaks to enhance usability and enjoyment.
Introduces a brand new tumblr Radar which lets you search the entire Tumblr network, with glorious visual results.
You can watch posts as they are posted on the new full screen map
Redesigned Tumblr directory
New feature called “Trends”, similar to Twitter in that it gives you a good idea how popular a certain word is across the tumblr network. You can also compare words such as Canon vs. Nikon vs. Leica which is very cool.
Finally, the new “Theme Garden” lets you easily install and contribute themes – this should be very popular.
Also, still no comments – but thankfully with Disqus, that’s taken care of.
Here’s a video giving you an overview of the new release:
Written on 18th November 2008
2 COMMENTS Andrew Hyde, Startup Enthusiast, Power User of Many Things, Community Organizer
Startup tarpipe is aiming to simplify the workflow of posting on social media sites. Their API enables users to do progressive things with their content in single actions. You can upload a photo from an email, have it post to a few such as uploading a photo, announcing this action with a tweet, sending an IM to a friend and send an email (and can do so at the same time). It does this without forcing the user to install a desktop or mobile application.
The big question for me is in how it will be used, and how it will differ from just creating a social media power user megaphone. I can see some people setting it up so that their Twitter, Pownce, away message, Jaiku, Flickr, Friend Feed, Tumblr and Plurk update every time they see fit, which would create an almost embarrassing echo chamber.
They are strong advocates for open source, and with their API can imagine some creative uses. Currently, I see uses that are neat (use IM to update your twitter) to useful (uploading your photos to several places) but don’t see a use of their API that absolutely shines. Yet.
Written on 15th May 2009
2 COMMENTS 
Tumblr
Written on 18th November 2008
Startup 
The Next Web Blog is closely associated with The Next Web Conference which is held annually in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At this event speakers from all over the world come together to talk about, and show off, the future of the Web. (More info 
