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Tumblr review
Richard Goodwin
We review Tumblr, the app that lets you tend to all your tumble blogging needs via your iPhone
Rating: 
Verdict: Well realised dedicated multimedia posting app for the popular blogging site.
Platform: iPhone and iPod touch
Pros: Simple interface, pleasant mobile version of your dashboard, all the features you get on the full browser version
Cons: No video posting. You can't scroll down to edit posts, which is an annoying but easily remedied oversight, some option buttons are smally, fiddly and oddly hidden.
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Publisher: Tumblr
Price: Free
More Info: Apple Apps Store
Tumblelogging, for the uninitiated, is a kind of mixed-media microblogging, a "quick and dirty stream of consciousness," like an online scrapbook. The thing that has made tumblelogging so successful is that it's quick and it doesn't limit you to 140 characters, like some microblogging platforms we could mention. Pictures, links, songs, text, quotes, can all be posted in seconds.
And current king of the tumblelog sites is Tumblr. A bizarre and lawless place - thick with lots of brilliant blogs like The Daily What and Garfield Minus Garfield, however it must be said, the majority of blogs hosted there belong to self-indulgent teenage girls, photoshopping Death Cab for Cutie lyrics onto pictures of themselves looking sad. But the real beauty of the Tumblr platform is its simplicity, and if Tumblr hadn't made blogging simple enough already, their iPhone app makes it even easier.
On launching you're confronted by the six types of post Tumblr allows (minus video), text, photo, quote, link, chat and audio. Pick which kind of post you want to make and you'll be taken to a page where you can compose your post. Once there you paste your link, pick your photo or say your piece, whack the post button, and Bob's your Uncle, Fanny's his transgender life-partner, you've posted on your blog.
Designers Garrett Ross and Jeff Rock have done an impressive job making the app as simple to use as the browser version of Tumblr, without skimping on the features, tagging, posting to multiple blogs and rudimentary scheduling that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't - it's all there.
The dashboard can mirror the browser dashboard or a mobile version, both of which handily let you keep up to date with all the blogs you're following.
Tumblr is an interesting and growing site, coupling aspects social networking and micro blogging with the more on a sturdy, if not a little, overly-simplified platform, and their fantastically realized app allows you to post more often and more importantly more spontaneously.
Spot a celeb, post it, see an awesome link, post it, snap a pigeon laughing post it - hold on you saw a pigeon laughing? That's amazing.













