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Three new Premium Themes are up!

Videographer — From PixelUnion, for the love of the video post.

Nautical — Also from PixelUnion, for the love of the captain’s log.

Backburner — From Jonathan Moore, for the love of themes that let you pick from 3 different color layouts!

Mad talent!

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Have photos to share from a Tumblr Meetup? Submit them to Last Night’s Meetup!

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Name Tuneage
Location Worldwide
First Post February 2008

Tuneage has been expanding musical horizons ever since it was founded by Bill and Richard back in 2008 after the two realized they shared similar tastes in music. Today, the site and its 11 contributors focus on sharing good music whether old or new, and attracts a wide-reaching global audience of music lovers. Bonus Fact: Richard met Heather through Tuneage, and the two are now married!

Also check out…

The Tee-Shirt Project
He’s posting every t-shirt he owns, one per day, and asking the public to vote on whether he keeps it or trashes it.

If I Were a Hoarder
A compendium of intriguing detritus, irresistible bargains, and wondrous objects that are often hoarded by hoarders.

Everyone is Gay
Advice from two girls who like girls on sexuality, gender, dating, love, and dressing up like Super Woman.

Until next time!



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We’ve been entranced with this new real-time traffic monitor we set up at Tumblr HQ.

Here’s a sample of traffic coming in at 10AM EST this morning. You can see the West Coast just starting to wake up!



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Tumblr Android 2.0: Now available on the Android Market

Android users, say hello to the new Tumblr app, rebuilt from the ground up! We hope you’ll enjoy the updated features, including:  

  • New interface: A total redesign centered around Android’s hardware and software.
  • Manage multiple blogs: It’s now a simple swipe to access your different blogs and manage your drafts, queue and followers on-the-go.
  • Create a post:  We’ve highlighted posting to Tumblr so you can share text, images, links, chats, quotes and videos whenever you want.  
  • Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.
  • Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.
  • New users: Sign up right from the app.
  • Bonus: For quick sharing, you can post anything from your home screen via the Tumblr widget.

Go ahead and grab it on the Android Market!



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Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives in a concerted effort to protect the Internet. Extraordinary. There’s no doubt that we’ve been heard.

So just to keep you updated: The well-intentioned, but immensely flawed “Stop Online Piracy Act” is still in the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing was yesterday and now members will debate and bring amendments to the bill. The Committee will reconvene in a few weeks — the date has yet to be scheduled. Nothing has been brought to a final vote. Everything is still very much in play. We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on and what you can do to help. But for now, we want to thank you.

One encouraging thing we heard yesterday:

I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. I think it’s way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.

— Representative Darrell Issa

We also want to express our tremendous gratitude to our friends at Mobile Commons who, on 30 minutes notice, hooked us up with their amazing platform (and provided their expertise) to automatically connect callers with their Representatives.


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Tumblr Tuesday Special Halloween Edition!

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31. It commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o’-lanterns and… AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Aaarz amarah ragazzah grh! Harmanbargarh! TUMBLAA! Unggg gaäahgad glaraagh? BRAINZZZ! BRAAAAAAINZZZ!!

FY Halloween Costumes
Have a great costume that just needs to be seen? Make your submission now!

Looking Good, Feeling Good
Ricky’s is a beauty shop based in NYC with lots of inspiration for all your undead and supernatural needs.

Halloweenies
Anything and everything with a Halloween vibe! And more!

Zombies Ate My Blog
A place where the weird, the creepy, and the bizarre meet. Also: Zombies!!

Animals Dressed as Other Animals
Basically, animals dressed as other animals.

Art by the supremely talented Mike Mitchell.



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Ура! Tumblr is now available in Russian.

This localization makes Tumblr more accessible in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and a host of other countries where we’ve seen new Tumblr communities emerging.

This makes eight different languages that Tumblr supports, with more coming!

You can change your language settings on the Preferences page.
Be sure to also follow the new official Russian Staff Blog.

Наслаждайтесь!



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Now Live: The newly optimized Tumblr web view for iPad



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Pro Tip: Hold Option (Alt in Windows) while editing an Answer post to expose some extra publishing options!



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Tumblr Tuesday: Special CMJ Edition!

Event CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2011
Details October 18-22 NYC
Tag #cmj

For five nonstop days and nights, the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival invades New York City with over 1,300 artist performances and dozens of cutting-edge films. CMJ fills more than 80 of the city’s greatest venues, nightclubs and theaters with over 120,000 fans, music industry professionals, college radio tastemakers, bloggers, press, filmmakers and musicians.

CMJ 2011
News and info straight from the source.

Cantora Records
Independent music company with a full-fledged record label, active music tech incubator, publishing company, and live events agency.

Yvynyl
The evolution of social music, experimental art, and the power of instant self-publishing.

SERIOUS BUSINESS MUSIC
Classy record label, recording studio and music collective that began in 2004.

Acoustic Night NY
A monthly unplugged acoustic series showcasing local artists in different amazing New York spaces.



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We’re coming to SXSW!

Tumblr is heading out to Austin this month to host a gathering of Tumblr developers, a party for our industry friends, and a huge meetup for all! This year’s conference is going to be the best yet, and we’re incredibly happy to be able to take part.

Are you planning to be there, too? Let us know and we’ll send you more details soon!



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Our new Japanese Tumblr Logo T-shirt is now available through BustedTees! All proceeds will go directly to the International Federation of the Red Cross to support disaster relief efforts by the Japanese Red Cross Society.



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Name Meme Molly
First post July 2009

Meme Molly is an internet personality and presenter of the video blog Rocketboom. Born and raised in England, Molly started uploading videos in 2006. Just one year later, she earned a nomination for Best Commentary video at the YouTube Awards. Today, she has over 50 million total views. She moved to New York in 2009 to serve as anchor of Rocketboom’s Daily News, where she covers top news stores, internet culture, and pretty much any topic you can imagine. She likes to go online sometimes.

Also check out…

Postcards From America
Five photographers and a writer document a road trip from San Antonio to Oakland.

I Don’t Live Here
Ben Gold: A sweet kid from Boston with big dreams.

Ridiculous Pictures of Céline Dion
It does exactly what it says.



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It’s now super easy to add a “Share on Tumblr” button to any site.

Adding the basic Tumblr Button couldn’t be simpler. Just cut and paste the code and you’ll be off running. But the advanced options are where it gets interesting…

The Tumblr Button can give you complete control over how your content appears when shared on Tumblr. Not only does this mean specifying an excerpt or summary, but also deciding whether it appears as a Link, Quote, Photo, or Video Embed.

Even better: This can be deeply integrated with just about any publishing platform to add contextual buttons next to things like paragraphs or photos. Check out these examples.

The appearance of the button is also completely customizable.

Click here to get started!


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