The Tumblr Community self-organizes hundreds of Meetups around the world every month. We’ll highlight some of the stories behind our favorite Tumblr Meetups here every Friday.
Bicoastal NY/LA Tumblr Play-Up
David Vienna, proprietor of popular Dad Blog The Daddy Complex, had a dream: The first-ever bicoastal Tumblr Play-Up for parents and their kids in Los Angeles and New York, to take place simultaneously. Locations were picked, a spiffy flier was created, and it became a reality.
On November 19, while Kirby Amour of Baby G! hosted Tumblr parents and babies at Brooklyn Bridge Park in NY, David hosted the LA contingent at the Pan Pacific Park.
“I’m not going to sugarcoat it — if you missed it, you missed a pretty good time,” David said afterwards. “The post-game cocktail was deserved.”
Upcoming Meetups of Note
- First-time location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Most RSVPs: Rio de Janeiro
- Best experience: Bring your guitar to Green Park, London
- Most picturesque: Festival of Lights, Calgary
Celebrating International Women’s Day!
Today marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, a global celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women and a time to recognize the achievements made by women around the world.
The Tumblr community is bursting with amazing, talented, inspirational women who we love and admire. Check out these blogs run by five of them…
Awesome Shit Women Did
Celebrates the impact women have had on our world by highlighting their incredible accomplishments and contributions to all areas of life.Britticisms
Britt is a music, arts, and culture writer and researcher, and she writes about avant-garde and independent music and culture here.Agent 3Z
Zahira’s collection of whatnots, eyebrow raising shenanigans, and the occasional rant.Thresca
Tere is a web developer, writer, and artist who blogs about her creations and inspirations.Owsome
Chelsea writes about space exploration, science, and other awesome things with an infectious sense of wonderment.(photo via nevver)
We had a great time at Tumblr Reads About Music! Thanks to the community and all the performers for coming out on Friday. Stay tuned for info on upcoming readings in Chicago and LA!
Reminder! Tumblr Reads is Saturday night at Mountain Bar in LA. Performance and free drinks start at 7. See you there!
Tumblr iPhone 2.0: Now available on the App Store
We’re excited about this one! The app has been recoded, rewired, and rethought from the ground up to offer you the very best Tumblr experience:
- Brand new interface: Browsing your dashboard, creating a post, managing multiple blogs — the most important features are within reach so you can interact with Tumblr effortlessly while you’re on-the-go.
- Creating a post: Now easier than ever! Sharing photos, videos, links, chats, text, quotes and audio is front and center. Advanced options like saving drafts and queuing posts are one swipe away.
- 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: Signing up is now native inside the app.
There are tons more features and details that are awesomely crafted.
Clark went on a harrowing bulldog walk last weekend that lasted nearly 30 minutes and spanned fifteen blocks!Some moments deserve more than one angle. That’s why we’re ecstatic to give Photosets a huge upgrade today, giving you new levels of control to tell your stories the way you want to.
1) Photoset photos now open in all their high-res glory on the Dashboard and on your blog.
2) You can now pick a layout for your photos to tell the right story.
3) Tumblr Themes can now make Photosets look and work any way you please with a host of new theme variables:
{block:Photoset} <!-- Number of photos --> {PhotoCount} <!-- Integer representation of the layout --> {PhotosetLayout} <!-- JS array of the Photoset column counts --> {JSPhotosetLayout} <!-- Each of the Photoset photos --> {block:Photos} {PhotoURL-500} {block:HighRes} {PhotoURL-HighRes} {/block:HighRes} {Caption} {block:Exif} ... {/block:Exif} {/block:Photos} {/block:Photoset}Enjoy!
Tumblr Android 2.0.4: Now available on the Android Market
This update features:
- New, cleaner, better-looking post screens.
- Faster Dashboard loading — especially when switching screens.
- Reblogging to Queue.
- Lots of bugs squashed.
I’m still working with a few of you who are mysteriously unable to log in from certain devices. If you run into this issue, please email support and tell them Chris sent you.
As always, a big thanks to all the beta-testers and bug reporters. :)
Introducing: Tumblr Android App
Built by the same brilliant team behind the Tumblr iPhone App, v1 of the official Tumblr Android App is ready to download!
(or click here to download directly)
The newly optimized Tumblr web view for iPhone and Android
Also check out our apps available for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.
