Aussie Geek Podcast

I know there are some of you out there that already use Tumblr. For those that don’t Tumblr gave you all a good reason to take a second or first look. The service was updated the other day to version 5 and this time it looks like they have concentrated on athetics, it has paid off in my opinion.

The back-end of your blog now has a much cleaner interface, not that it was by any means “dirty” before. There are also some really cool new features, I especially like the Radar page from which you can search the entire “Tumble-sphere”.

The other cool thing that caught my eye was the fact that they have leveraged the community skills in updating the available themes. This release makes the best community created themes available to every user with just one click.

Tumblr don’t usually have very quick development cycles, but this one was worth waiting for as it is one of the best looking refreshes of the service to date.

This blogging service is dead simple, so if you have ever thought of starting a blog but thought it would be too much hassle then try Tumblr; even your Mum could use it.

If you are interested in making it even more simple then also try out Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed is an AIR app that makes it possible to post to Tumblr without going to the site and logging in. There is also an iPhone app as well for blogging on the go.

Introducing: Tumblr v5 from David Karp on Vimeo.