What’s a Tumblr? Should I Get One?
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- March 26th, 2008
Tumblr is a mobile-phone optimized blogging website that turns ordinary people into mobile artists. Optimized for those quirky little camera phones, Blackberry’s and iPhones we all carry, this free web site is all about snippets of information. Think of it as Twitter without the noise. My personal site is gotham.tubmlr.com You can post information to this blogging system from any mobile phone by sending an email to a specialized email address. If you have access to a web browser you can upload a
- text snippet – basically a blog post
- photo
- quotation
- link
- chat
- audio file
- video file
The appeal of this portal is simplicity. It is just easier to sent it all to Tumblr than to go through the process of blogging and posting to Flickr. I’m interested in learning more about how Tumblr plans to monetize this experience.