December 5, 2010 will be the date that people craved on their head (or maybe heart) as the milestone of 2010. Yes, it is the damn date whenTumblrwent down. The site has been down for 24 hours, the longest outage of this companys history. People cursed. Tumblr has becomes a crush for more that 11 million people. The popularity has gained Tumblr a die-hard fans and loyal followers. Today, the internet next big thing already has more than11,039,276 usersand more than2,357,992,341 posts(per December 18, 2010).
Behind the curtains, meet the internet prodigy Mr. David Karp (). In 2007, while people hyped up with the needs of connecting with other people, Karp backed up a little step. He believes that blogging is still the ultimate weapon to approach people online. Amazed by the tumblelog (according to Wikipediais a variation on traditional blogging that favors very short, mixed media posts with little or no commentary),Karp then launched Tumblr.
Is Karp the only panelist drinking a beer? Respect.
Kristina Weise
Like any other internet wonder kid, Karp is a drop out. I dare say that Karp is the ultimate representation of internet geek nowadays. At 11, he read HTML for Dummies. At 12, he was homeschooling. At 14, he drops out school. At 21, he started Tumblr. At 22, he awardedBest Young Tech Entrepreneur 2009byBusiness Week. Now at 24, hes still getting started. Then we called it awesome.
Ah so, lets getting started to know about Tumblr! Tumblr is a microblogging platform that satisfies your need to go blogging in easiest way people could imagine. The tagline defines the website itself The Easiest Way to Blog. Starting from the registration process, youll be amazed by how fast the site redirects you to a new perspective of blogging.
As you can see, the only thing they need is the 3 basic forms, your e-mail, password, and the name of your blogs. It is like spelling A, B, C.
Tumblr then introduced you to theirDashboard. They categorized what people basically doing when they blog or they want to share something. Tumblr defines 7 distinct types of post.A text, a photo, a quote, a link, a conversation, an audio, and a video. You can easily choose which type of post you want to blog and considered it done, Tumblr has already made a custom display from each type of the posts. Thats what I called technology.
What makes Tumblr more fun is their ability of customization. While others blogging platform, likeWordPressandBlogspotoffers you beautiful gorgeous layout template that requires somePayPalto customize. Tumblr made it for free. You can choose a layout (they called it Theme) and start to customize your blog peacefully, from background color to font size, from the text to the header. If you want to give some more money on board, you can choose some premium theme from Theme Garden and voila, is yours truly.
Many have said that Tumblr is for people who want to keep peace betweenFacebookandTwitter. Although I dont want to agree to the statement, its becoming true each day. Like Twitter, Tumblr allows you to follow certain people you love. Singer, like Katy Perry,Hayley WilliamsandJohn Legendor starlet likeDianna Agronhave made a pact to be loyal with Tumblr. An artist, a web designer, a fashion lover, youll find many have attracted to the gold Tumblr has offered. Like Facebook, Tumblr is addictive. The easy-to-use and easy-to-publish ability already helped many illiterate-HTML transformed themselves to techno whiz.
However, Tumblr is still a toddler. Its still 3 years old now, its still growing teeth and learning to walk. Year ago, Tumblr still has cons about their commenting system. Back in the days, Tumblr has only 2 ways to show affections to others (besides Follow-ed them). The first one is the Like button, the red heart shaped button does the same job like giving a thumb onFacebookor ijo-ijonya, Gan! onKaskus.
The second one is the most popular used button on Tumblr. Drums roll, here comes the Reblog button. Reblog has the same function as Re-Tweet, is a re-ish. A repetition, a doppelganger of a post. But like a doppelganger, they have extra. You can add an icing on a cake, a topping for an ice cream. Some busy people type : True., I heart it. below the post. Some were serious, typing some lines of admiration. Both ways works cool enough, since the spirit of microblogging is to blog something in a short lines, or even short words.
But unlike Facebook, Tumblr needs certain steps to comment on your friends post.Disqusthen came to rescue, you can add a commenting system by installing it on your theme. Now its being inconsistent, its not being easy anymore. Then, the staff brings out joy. They add the Reply button so people can start typing a short comment after someones post. Now, they even add the Ask Anything section so you can gather feedback from your reader.
LikeTypePad, Tumblr is well known by its mobileability. You can start texting or e-mailing your post from any mobile phone. Dont bother to ask but sure it now available in iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. For an even mobile person, Tumblr can make a record of your voice and make it an audio post by calling to a certain numbers. How awesome~
For people who have serious urgency to post and keeping the audience attracted, Tumblr has a feature of Queue. You can automatically publish your posts on a designated interval. Its like you let Tumblr freed your posts wings and let them loose to fly.
Theres more awesomeness to write by starting a review about Tumblr. Now I already up to 1000 words and still counting. So, Ill let the website speaks for itself or you can read a30 reasons why youll love Tumblr.
The thing is, we should salute Mr. Karp for his idealistic of a web free advertisement. He believes to make a good website, you dont need to sell your soul to devil. And if Mr. Karp wants to keep the idea alive, I think it will be best to start monetize Tumblr the way WordPress did.
For me, Tumblr is still my golden child, although I love the way Notepad keeps haunting me for its algorithms of CSS and HTML. But I have to admit that Tumblr made blogging comes back to its true from, the way blogging was meant to be.
Footnote: How time flies. Back in the days, Tumblr still has aTumblarityfeature. It says how active you are on Tumblr, its like a measurement of how loyal you are with the site. But now, the Tumblarity was once a history. Its now only a good memory about having a nice best friend that reminds you how many cans of Cola youre already drink in one shot. (Prisanti Putri)
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