Friday, April 26, 2013

Tumblr's old iOS app used to have a hidden, Twitter #Music-style feature

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Among other features, Twitter's new #Music service lets users tune into a station made up entirely of music shared by the people they follow. It's a nice way of finding new music from your social network, but strangely enough a similar feature was hidden deep within the iOS Tumblr app Tumblrette (which eventually became the official Tumblr app). According to developer Jeff Rock, co-foudner of Mobelux and builder of Tumblrette, a feature known as Tumblr Play was built within the code for his Tumblr app more as a fun proof-of-concept than anything.


"It was a sonic representation of your Dashboard."


The feature aggregated any audio posted to your Tumblr dashboard and automatically played them back in sequential order. Of course, Tumblr...


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