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Welcome to our fourthTumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind the blog.Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. It’s as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more in-depth text and rich images. But sometimes those images aren’t so rich— sometimes they’re as grainy and grey as the hipster’s sweater who snapped the shot....

Welcome to our tenthTumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind a blog.Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. It’s as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more in-depth text and rich images. On September 9th, 2011,we reportedthat at an average of 37.5 million daily posts, Tumblr reached its first mega milestone of 10 billion posts....

Tumblr hasunveileda new API for 3rd party app developers, along with adevelopment center. Explaining the new features in this v2 API, Tumblr said it has focused on features which have received larger adoption, rather than providing a complete feature set in this API. Some of the features include: Further, Tumblr has consolidated API access toapi.tumblr.comin order to make things easier for developers and also keep track of the traffic and balance it using DNS and other mechanisms....

I have to admit my fascination with Tumblr. Though I don’t post things onto my own very often, I love getting lost in a Tumblr spiral for hours. I read stories, I click links and I view pictures…but viewing pictures of Tumblr sucks. If you want to see the full size of an image, you’ll do that in a new tab. For many images, it’s completely unnecessary, and they’re just begging for a lightbox....

While the 00’s were ripe with great technological brawn, it’s clear the 10’s are about beauty. Aesthetics are essential for success, and that’s a core truth for an app likeTumblr, which is often described as a visual, streaming Twitter. Tumblr is like theFFFFoundfor the rest of the world. It’s shareable, fast-paced and populated with fashion-centric images. “Tumblr is basically the Pony Boy Curtis of NYC startups: totally cool, young, hip and a good narrative of everything cultural happening these days,” says, Foodspotting’s Soraya Darabi....