Tumblr Updates to v.5, Gets New Features

Via Mashable/Vimeo:

A great-looking update to a service I’ve raved about:

Tumblr v5 “Sexy As Hell”

January 16, 2009 – 11:11 am PDT – by Pete Cashmore

The changes have been universally welcomed by Tumblr’s self-reported 625,000 account holders, and we see them as a welcome upgrade to an already enjoyable service.

Blogging service Tumblr launched its fifth version today, with features including a revised Dashboard (Tumblr’s take on a RSS reader), a directory, a theme garden and a new version of its Goodies pages (where users find extra features like the iPhone app and Dashboard widget). It is, claims founder David Karp in the video below, “sexy as hell”.  

Perhaps most interesting: a complete revision of its Radar page, a novel way to find hot content that shirks the obvious “Digg like” interface for a more inventive grid layout.

Introducing: Tumblr v5 from David Karp on Vimeo.