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Attn: Android users. We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the new Tumblr app!

Apart from a totally new, beautiful interface, updates include:

• More responsive, faster-loading dashboard and blogs
• Better photo browsing and animated gif support when you tap an image
• Notifications for multiple blogs live in one place
• Tumblr Radar!

If your phone isn’t set to auto-update the app, be sure to download the update in the Google Play market.

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Tumblr At Night

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Name Explore
Location New York

When Benjamin Franklin founded the first subscription library in America, he believed that access to knowledge was the key to creativity, innovation, and success. Today, the web is our library, and Coursekit has teamed up with Maria Popova to find the internet’s most relevant and interesting information and synthesize it into knowledge and insight. From TED talks, to vintage maps, to psychology studies, to quotes from favorite books, Explore is a guide through the landscape of the mind.

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WTF QR CODES
Celebrating the ridiculousness that is QR codes.

Break Up Your Band
A blog about cataloguing and dissecting the best music of the 1990s (mostly).

Phenomenal People
A celebration of phenomenal women. Share your story and celebrate the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival in London.

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Name America Underwater
Location Washington, DC

An estimated 11 million American families currently owe more than their homes are worth. A joint project of Rebuild the Dream and The New Bottom Line, America Underwater shares how these families’ dreams are drowning in debt. “If mortgages were reduced to their fair market value—what our homes were worth before the bank-caused recession—we could reset the housing market, reign in unemployment, and put money back into people’s pockets,” reads their mission statement.

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Ladypreneurs: Women Winning at Work
Inspired by creative, entrepreneurial, kick ass women, Willo O’Brien aims to inspire and support more women to speak up, stand tall, and do their part to change the game.

Hipster Branding
Holding up a mirror to the artsy community.

One Tiny Hand
One tiny step for hands, one giant leap for mankind.

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Name The Believer Logger
Location San Francisco

The Believer Logger is the official Tumblr of The Believer, a magazine celebrating interesting work in art, culture, and thought—whether that means literature, film, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking. The Believer eschews condescension for optimism and news hooks for timeless pieces on art you’ll genuinely like. From Laurie Anderson to Joan Didion to Nick Hornby to David Byrne, The Believer Logger is full of special features and extras that will keep you looped in on great culture high, low, and in between.

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Clipart Covers
Classic (and not so classic) album covers recreated with clipart and Comic Sans.

Gravity. It’s the law.
It’s physics. It’s everywhere. You love it. You hate it.

Mapstalgia
Video game maps drawn from memory.

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Name Explore
Location New York

When Benjamin Franklin founded the first subscription library in America, he believed that access to knowledge was the key to creativity, innovation, and success. Today, the web is our library, and Coursekit has teamed up with Maria Popova to find the internet’s most relevant and interesting information and synthesize it into knowledge and insight. From TED talks, to vintage maps, to psychology studies, to quotes from favorite books, Explore is a guide through the landscape of the mind.

Also check out…

WTF QR CODES
Celebrating the ridiculousness that is QR codes.

Break Up Your Band
A blog about cataloguing and dissecting the best music of the 1990s (mostly).

Phenomenal People
A celebration of phenomenal women. Share your story and celebrate the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival in London.

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We’re in Chicago next week for the AWP writers conference and will be throwing a happy hour for Tumblr writers of all stripes. We’d love to see you there.

The venue, Uncharted Books, is a new bookstore funded on Kickstarter which had a Tumblr blog before it was born. It’s a dream spot for book-web-community nerds and we absolutely can’t wait to see it (and all of you.)

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Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives in a concerted effort to protect the Internet. Extraordinary. There’s no doubt that we’ve been heard.

So just to keep you updated: The well-intentioned, but immensely flawed “Stop Online Piracy Act” is still in the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing was yesterday and now members will debate and bring amendments to the bill. The Committee will reconvene in a few weeks — the date has yet to be scheduled. Nothing has been brought to a final vote. Everything is still very much in play. We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on and what you can do to help. But for now, we want to thank you.

One encouraging thing we heard yesterday:

I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. I think it’s way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.

— Representative Darrell Issa

We also want to express our tremendous gratitude to our friends at Mobile Commons who, on 30 minutes notice, hooked us up with their amazing platform (and provided their expertise) to automatically connect callers with their Representatives.

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Tumblr Android 2.0: Now available on the Android Market

Android users, say hello to the new Tumblr app, rebuilt from the ground up! We hope you’ll enjoy the updated features, including:  

• New interface: A total redesign centered around Android’s hardware and software.
• Manage multiple blogs: It’s now a simple swipe to access your different blogs and manage your drafts, queue and followers on-the-go.
• Create a post:  We’ve highlighted posting to Tumblr so you can share text, images, links, chats, quotes and videos whenever you want.  
• Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.
• Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.
• New users: Sign up right from the app.
• Bonus: For quick sharing, you can post anything from your home screen via the Tumblr widget.

Go ahead and grab it on the Android Market!

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Tumblr Android 2.0.4: Now available on the Android Market

This update features:

• New, cleaner, better-looking post screens.
• Faster Dashboard loading — especially when switching screens.
• Reblogging to Queue.
• Lots of bugs squashed.

I’m still working with a few of you who are mysteriously unable to log in from certain devices. If you run into this issue, please email support and tell them Chris sent you.

As always, a big thanks to all the beta-testers and bug reporters. :)

Grab it now!