last updated 14 years ago
Description
Tumblr Cloud was one of my first viral applications. The original version was extremely simple, it just made an image of your top words. Since then it has really evolved into a full fledged application. Tumblr Cloud was one of the first applications to use Tumblr's new OAuth protocol
The index page is pretty simple and straight forward.
One of the hardest things about making an easy to use application is the UI, I spent a good amount of time figuring out how to offer all the features I wanted and keep it simple to use.
Once you generate a cloud something like this gets posted to your tumblelog
You will also be redirected to a page that looks like this, it showcases your cloud, and shows the users you reblog the most, and suggests similar clouds.
Every user gets a page that showcases their past clouds they generated
When you search something the results show matching users and related clouds
Tumblr Cloud is featured on Tumblr's third party application page
Learned
I love this project, I have learned so much from it. The latest version is all flash based, I have some pretty crazy flash/javascript/server interaction going on when you click that "Generate my cloud" button. This project runs on my custom framework that takes advantage of Client-Side XSLT, all pages are pretty much just XML documents that gets XSL pages applied to them.