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We just launched Analog 1.0.1 - top of my favourite additions in this release, the ability to upload to Tumblr.
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➶ Tumblr's Got a New API
Complete with OAuth, Tumblr’s just announced the second version of their API is now available. I’m incredibly excited about this - and there’s a new Engineering blog too, which has details on the changes.
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Twitter and Facebook went from being beautiful, simple, focused interfaces to being thousand-pixel wide behemoths with multiple navigations and links and promotions and all this stuff. Eventually we’d really like to build like a perfect product, specifically a perfect product for self expression.
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➶ Please, Let Me Pay
Great post by Garrett Murray regarding Tumblr.
I’ve been complaining for years that Tumblr is free. I don’t want it to be free. I want to pay for it. Tumblr is one of the few services on earth that refuses to take my money.
I’m in the group of ‘I’d pay for Tumblr in an instant’ also (and have been for at least the past two years). With regards to people complaining that ‘you can’t complain about a free product’, Bobbie Johnson had this to say about Twitter that’s equally apt for Tumblr:
“You can’t complain about free services” is utter codswallop. I am the product they’re selling to advertisers and investors.
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➶ tumblr2wp - A tumblr to WordPress Exporter
The folks at WooThemes have put this handy tool together. I’m still on the fence about leaving Tumblr, but if I were looking to move this tool would certainly make my life easier.
The source for the tool is also available on GitHub.
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➶ Tumblr Backup app for Mac OS X
If you’re on OS X, and run a blog hosted on Tumblr (like this one), it might be wise to run this tool every so often. Just in case.
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myTumblr, a $15 desktop app for posting to Tumblr. It looks good.
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Save to Instapaper snippet for Tumblr themes
Last week, Marco Arment tweeted about the ability to create ‘Save to Instapaper’ links on pages. I’ve spent a couple of days messing with the HTML, as well as look at how Tim’s done it, and le voila! If you’re looking to add ‘Save to Instapaper’ support to your Tumblr theme, I’ve just published a couple of gists to Github that you can drop into them. If you’re wanting to do it all inline with iFrames, try this snippet instead of the bounce-off-to-Instapaper HTML link here. I’ve added the iFrame variant to all text posts I publish at nikf.org, but it can be used for any post type.
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➶ Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass
This link, courtesy of Gruber, is timely - to say the least. Last week I was discussing Tumblr vs Posterous with some friends - and I have an account with both. Whilst email posting for Posterous works, it’s the only way you’d ever want to post: the web interface is (quite frankly) horrible. To quote from the article:
Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product.
I couldn’t have put it better myself. And that’s why I’m sticking with Tumblr.
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The Tumblr Staff have just announced that, in conjunction with custom API endpoints in the likes of Twitterrific and Tweetie for iPhone, you can now use your preferred Twitter client to browse your Tumblr dashboard on the go. Hot.
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