Some of us Tumblr folks, along with our friends from Kickstarter and SoundCloud, are throwing a party in Austin this weekend for SXSW.
RSVP and come hang out!
And a special thanks to Tumblr’s hosting partner The Planet for sponsoring.
Now testing: Ask Me
The new Ask feature lets your friends or readers ask questions that you can choose to answer on your blog.
You can enable it from your new Messages page (where we’re about to start adding a bunch of new messaging options!).
They even come with a bunch of new theme variables for designers to format them:
{block:AskEnabled} <a href="/ask">{AskLabel}</a> {/block:AskEnabled} {block:Answer} <div class="answer"> <div class="question">{Question}</div> <span class="asker"> <img src="{AskerPortraitURL-24}"/> {Asker} </span> <div class="answer">{Answer}</div> </div> {/block:Answer}Enjoy!

Yesterday, Amit Gupta had a great suggestion to include thumbnails on Video posts in the Dashboard:
I love Tumblr, but I almost never watch the videos people post. But I click on photos to see the bigger version all the time.
Video posts could really use a still frame to give you a peek at what’s inside.
Anyone else feel this way?
We were already doing this with videos uploaded to Tumblr. Now we’ll also show thumbnails next to YouTube videos.
Thanks, Amit!

An enormous thanks to everyone for making last night’s meetup the most EPIC party of Internet Week!
- We saw more than 200 attendees and 40+ Rock Band performances
- The Tumblr Dashboard Confessional got everyone screaming
- We fried an Xbox (that’s why we have spares!)
- Justin Johnson was our very courteous MC
- Marco and yours truly got to ham it up
- Some local stars performed
- We met lots of neat people
- …and maybe invited too many girls
If you couldn’t make it, we hope we get to meet you at the next one!
Check out some photos here.
And a very special thanks to Michelle DeForest (pictured) for organizing the event.
(Photo by Jared Roessler)







