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Webware reports on pro features planned for Tumblr. On one of them, at least; they report that there are 10 features currently in development.
In short, it lets you add a submit button to your Tumblog that lets anyone and everyone write something for you to put on your blog.
You know what keeps surprising me about Tumblr? They keep coming up with these features that no one really asked for, or predicted, yet really blow your mind. It’s nice to see a service doing more than just try to placate their users.
The service is soft launching the new submit feature on about a dozen popular community blogs, followed by an invite-only private beta to regular Tumblr users
Oh, and Webware? It’s tumblelog, not “Tumblog”.
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Photo reblogged from Jacob Bijani
I’ve mentioned it before, but today we are officially “launching” pHome.us. I’m really excited to push some actual traffic to it and hear what people think.
This site is a pretty good idea (that’s been done a million times before, but this is Web 2.0, it doesn’t matter), however, it’s fucking awfully made. I tried it for about 5 minutes and gave up; I would have given it longer, but it almost crashed Safari.
The first obstacle was that the homepage tells me next to nothing about what the thing actually is. Fire your copy writers. If you have any. I guess you don’t.
Sign up was painless and simple enough, but after that, it all went to hell. I imported my Safari bookmarks, as advised. (Which included private bookmarks, which are public by default, which wasn’t immediately clear). I was then presented with a list of bookmarks to select from, separated into the folders they’re organised in my browser. Except for the ones not in a folder (ie, in the main bookmarks folder, uncategorised), which displayed as though they were in a folder they were not. That was momentarily confusing, until I realised.
That forwarded me to a page where I could manage my links. I toyed around a little with organising, before giving up. Just about every single link on the site is a javascript link, all javascript:void(0) — I’m not particularly well-versed in Javascript, but I’m 100% sure that is not necessary.
Trying to rename links was near impossible, too. The text field is extremely unresponsive, and selecting text just doesn’t seem to work. After persevering for a while, I eventually ended up with an unresponsive script prompt. Clicking stop just made the prompt constantly popup over and over, and clicking continue made it disappear for a few seconds, and then return again. Eventually making Safari completely unresponsive for a few seconds.
So what do I think? More Web 2.0 crap. It’s a nice enough idea, but it’s poorly-made (seriously, whoever developed this should be shot), and not a fun experience at all. Don’t bother.
Oh, by the way...
