Tumblr Tips From Tumblr's Founder. Rian Johnson’s blog on Tumblr dedicated to his new film, “Looper.” In this week’s magazine, Rob Walker profiles David Karp, the 26-year-old founder of Tumblr, the blogging tool and social network. Tumblr has been used to make more than 60 million blogs, and we asked Karp for a few suggestions — and examples — of what qualities make a good Tumblr stand out. Here are three of his suggestions: Be inventive. We’re always rolling out new creative tools on Tumblr.
Give your fans a peek behind the curtain. Start a community effort. Badwolf-bowties. Top 10 ways to gain Tumblr followers. Tumblr Life for Greasemonkey. Tumblr Reblog Yourself for Greasemonkey. The 100 Best Tumblrs. If you're looking for a place to express yourself on the Web, there is no shortage of options.
You can subscribe to one of the many social networks, or you can sign up for a blogging service like WordPress. Or you can join Tumblr. Founded by New Yorker David Karp in April of 2007, Tumblr has become one of the fastest growing blogging platforms on the Internet. Not only that, the service, which allows users to easily build "tumblogs", is also a social network. Sure, its user base pales in comparison to that of Twitter or Facebook, or even Blogger, but the company has been able to create a community all its own. It's with that we decided to cull together our list of what we feel are the greatest Tumblrs ever created. Tumblr Poll widgetsTumblring. Tumblr Tag Clouds. Paste this code into your theme html. 50+ Beautifully Designed Free Themes and Widgets to Enhance your Tumblr Experience.
Apr 14 2011 Tumblr is getting popular day after day because of its flexibility, power and simplicity.
Tumblr is a blogging platform through which you can share your content, images and videos with the world even when you are on the go. This is because it empowers bloggers to post and customize their content from a web browser, email or phone. 15 Apps to Enhance the Tumblr Experience. Tumblr is fast becoming the micro blogging platform of choice across all sections of Internet users.
The Tumblr app in itself is well rounded with a gorgeous user interface and nice set of features. Being the spoiled brats of the internet age we are, the quest for accessing and managing Tumblr from various platforms is always out there. There are quite a few choices when it comes to tumblr apps. In this round up, let us take a quick look on the apps that help us to enhance the Tumblr experience.
Web Apps Tumbltape Tumbltape. Tumblr: What's the Best Tumblelog? 20 Great Widgets to Enhance Your Tumblr Blog. While Tumblr tends to keep things minimal, sometimes you're just dying to post a widget on your site that relates to what you discuss, or maybe you just want to share something with your readers.
The 20 widgets we've gathered below are not meant to be used en masse on Tumblr blogs, but one here or there might enhance what it is you're trying to communicate to your readers. Why not share a podcast, photography, or maybe even a great work of art? With the right combination of Tumblr theme and widgets, you can maintain the platform's minimalism and bring your readers more value at the same time. Turn Your Tumblr into a T-Shirt Store. AddMerch is a service from Printfection that lets you turn images on your website into merchandise for your visitors to buy.
This week they informed us of a neat integration they've launched: turning your Tumblr blog (or "Tumblelog") into a T-shirt store. As the video below shows, AddMerch essentially links website images to a store where visitors can add that image to t-shirts, aprons, mousepads and the like. As a seller, you set a base price for each item (with Printfection's profit included), and add whatever commission you want on top of that. The Ultimate Tumblr Toolbox. These days Tumblr has turned the question, “What can it do?”
To “What can’t it do?”. Tumblr’s simplicity, refined user interface and streamlined approach are some of the reasons for its skyrocketing popularity among geeks and the masses alike. As Tumblr has become one of the most popular blogging platforms online, we’ve put together a list of useful resources that can help you enhance your tumblog and the micro-blogging experience in general. Free Themes ColorBars ColorBars Despite having a colorful name, this free single column theme is not so colorful at all. Chrome Chrome. Get your tumblr on from the Linux desktop with Grumblr. As a writer of ebooks I have to constantly be promoting my works.
There are three main ways to do this for free: Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. Of the three, Tumblr allows me to be the most flexible in what I post as well as allows more people to see what I'm posting. But I don't always like to be at the mercy of a web browser. So to interact with Tumblr from the Linux desktop I opted for a very nice tool called Grumblr. Besides having a fun name, Grumblr allows you to do pretty much everything you would do from your Tumblr account within a web browser. Dependencies Ruby interpreterGTK+ libraryRuby bindings to GTK+RubyGems gem managerlibXml Ruby libraryREST Client gemPPDS libraries gem Don't worry, most of the dependencies will be met with the installation process.
Installation You will not find Grumblr in the Add/Remove Software tool or the Ubuntu Software Center. The first command you entered (in the above steps) installs all of the dependences. Figure 1.