Tumblr, which has been attracting growing attention (and venture capital) as a publishing platform between blogging and Twitter has just unveiled an updated version of the service that, frankly look pretty amazing.
The look and feel, while still clean and accessible, has been given a solid make-over with some nice sizzle, an improved dashboard, widgets, themes, and new features.
If you haven’t used Tumblr yet, the upgrade should give the perfect excuse to check it out. Whlle Tumblr may not be as red-hot as Twitter, it has 625,000 users who have created 70 million posts. Impressive.
Personally, I’ve got a Tumblr account but haven’t had time or a reason to use it given I’m a WordPress and Twitter “enthusiast”. That said, I just launched a new marketing and communications consulting that specializes in social media so perhaps I could embrace Tumblr as my corporate blog.
For anyone interested in learning more about Tumblr’s fifth iteration, here’s a video the company put together in which founder David Karp says: “It’s a huge step for the site”, adding it will “make room for some big things being rolled out in the next couple of months”.
Introducing: Tumblr v5 from David Karp on Vimeo.
For more, Silicon Alley Insider has a number of screenshots.
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