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Tumblr iPhone 1.1 Sneak Peek!

It’s been submitted to the App Store and should be live this week!  Here’s a preview from its wonderful developer, Jeff Rock:

• Video posts. Choose from your camera roll or capture a new video right from the app (iPhone 3GS only).
• Native editing. Need to add tags or update a post on the go? Just tap the ‘edit’ button on a post in the Dashboard to load it up in a native post editor.
• Search. Supports searching across Tumblr, in your Dashboard or on just your posts.
• Built-in web browser. No more losing your place when you tap a link in Dashboard. Now a web browser will pop up and let you investigate the interwebs.
• Post upload status. Never wonder how long it’s going to take that Audio post to upload again.
• Post geotagging. Even I’m not sure what this is for, but I’m sure that it’s going to be awesome.
• Rewritten Dashboard tab (replaces the Sites tab). See all your posts from each of your blogs, including drafts and queues.
• Rewritten Advanced Post Options. New support for Save as draft, Add to Queue, Publish on, Custom post URL’s, Send to Twitter and Ask a question.
• Dashboard now only reloads on command. Not every time you tap the tab. Sorry about that one :P
• Better quality photo posts. Photos are now sent with less compression.
• New bookmarklet format for links. More info coming once 1.1 goes live.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where a post that has been saved for later can become corrupted.
• Fixed a bug where Photo posts can cause crashes.
• Fixed memory leaks.

There’s even more, but most of it is stuff you won’t see. Much of the core of the application was rewired, re-factored, re-plumbed, simplified and enhanced. The end result being a snappier, more flexible code base that’s ready for all the stuff coming in 1.2 and beyond.

We’ll let you know once it goes live on the App Store!

Whoa.

staff:

Yes, it’s totally silly that one year after launching Tumblr, we’re moving the official Tumblr blog off of Wordpress because it was too much work to update.

We want to spotlight all of the neat stuff happening on Tumblr.  So today we’re announcing the official Tumblr tumblelog:  staff.tumblr.com

There’s a lot we want to do here.  In addition to showing off the new features we’re building, we’re dying to brag about everything we see you folks doing. To cover it all, we’re inviting some new members of the Tumblr family to contribute.  Introductions to follow.

Thanks, everyone!

staff:

Want to come work for us? (Hint: It’s awesome.)

• Systems Engineer: Design, implement, and maintain a scalable, Linux-based infrastructure for Tumblr’s rapidly growing community.
• Web Application Developer: Help make Tumblr the greatest place for everyone in the world to share the things they love and create.

We’re a small company where everyone has their voice heard, and we want people working here who know and love Tumblr and can help us make it even better. Most of our team has come from the Tumblr community, including Marc, Jacob, Peter, Topherchris, and Meaghan.

We’ve had great luck hiring from the community so far, and we’d love to continue this tradition with our next coworkers. Does one of these sound like your dream job? Please get in touch.

Note: Applicants must be willing to relocate to New York City. These are full-time positions in our office. No telecommuting. We know that moving is a lot of work, but afterward, you’ll be in New York City. That magical place with the great bagels and real pizza where half of the cars are yellow. How cool is that?