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Re: Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head

Photo Editing Expert — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:47:36 -0000

Awesome post. Thanks so much.

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Kyle4Jesus — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:46 -0000

I second that. Tumblr has the best design and customization. Only thing I don't like is the inability of screen reader users to access my audio/video files. I want download links like those on Posterous.

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Kyle4Jesus — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:32:49 -0000

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Kyle4Jesus — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:27:20 -0000

I really like how Posterous works. I just wish that the theming system was easier for a screen reader user to customize. I also want to be able to use markdown or another similar markup to format my posts. And my posterous seems to be a little more busy than Tumblr. I like the minimalist approach. I see now that there are comments enabled on Posterous. What comment system is it using?? At the moment, I only have Disqus setup, and Posterous looks different.

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phildunn — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:48:20 -0000

Posterous takes links I share from the bookmarklet then hyperlinks them to my Posterous feed instead of the original article. I don't really like that. Strange how it grabs the image, too. It makes my Facebook people jump through too many hoops to see the content, for example. I've heard that sharein is better for this type of process.

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jDeppen — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:56:21 -0000

"emailing just isnt great to me anymore"

I feel the same, I'm ready to move past email, it feels so archaic (I hope Google Wave can change that). Maybe they'll create an iPhone app.

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sikku — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:57:35 -0000

Had it been better if @posterous had support for @Disqus

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sikku — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:56:42 -0000

Posterous is really great at posting instantly to various social networking sites... There are lot many social sites which has to be included in posterous. Anyway..

One thing which I like the most is I can post to various blogs from my company in which all these sites are blocked, yet I can publish them from my email... Isn't it simply superb???

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s2rt — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:31:35 -0000

Good comparison, I've just stumbled upon Posterous and haven't looked back - although it still updates my Tumblr blog.

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Rodney Isemann — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:37:43 -0000

I'm a posterous man myself.

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wecandobiz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:30:16 -0000

I'm enjoying using Posterous and the feature which picks up images from a web p age you're posting is neat, although many (sometimes all) seem to be banner ads on the page. It seems hard to get rid of these, meaning my posts are littered with ads. Any suggestions? Deleting the HTML does seem to help, strangely.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://wecandobiz.posterous...

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olivierBlanchard — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:36:01 -0000

Great piece, Jennifer. I am still very much partial to Tumblr, but you did a great job with this.

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Matthew Tommasi — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:06:24 -0000

No worries mate

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Chris — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:41:52 -0000

Annoyingly enough, Facebook Connect didn't kick in on that comment.

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Chris — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:39:51 -0000

About a month late on this reply, but ouch. :P

I'm in NY and use Posterous over Tumblr.

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Gilberto Hernandez — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:35:36 -0000

Awesome, this evolpe speed: trying to stay in touch Thanks =)

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MyOtter — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:57:58 -0000

I guess we've come to this conversation a little late, it's interesting that no one seems to have mentioned the use of Posterous as an alternative to Ping.fm to selectively or automatically update your various statuses/blogs. It then has the added bonus of acting as a single feed that people who want to see everything you produce can subscribe to. As a blogging platform, I can see it getting better, but for now it lacks enough features to make me stick with other platforms (customization aside, I want to be able to upload photos directly on the site, rather than via email or a link). That said, it's an excellent dashboard to quickly fire off new photos to Flickr, new videos to YouTube, new blogs to Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogger et al, and new statuses to pretty much everywhere-- all without leaving the inbox.

More here, if you want it: http://myotter.posterous.co...

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kOoLiNuS — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:57:48 -0000

hands down the BEST tumblr/posterous comparison I've found :-D
(very) well done!

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Michael Messina — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:42:59 -0000

How sweet it is! Now that's a game-changer! But you already knew that... take care Sachin.

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Sachin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:32:02 -0000

Absolutely. Facebook Pages support is coming *very* soon. Thanks!

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Michael Messina — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:30:23 -0000

Sachin,

Thanks for the response. Really nice to hear plans for the site directly from the founder!

I'm researching and recommending ways that large nonprofits and government (local and regional planners) can engage community members in a grassroots/participatory blogging system.

Right now, my top guns are wordpress, tumblr, and posterous; and frankly we just might use all three! Lots to do.

I have to say I was impressed with your facebook photo integration, I haven't seen anything close to that! Do you plan on providing support for facebook pages? Please let me know.

Thanks!

Michael Messina

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Anthony — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:48:50 -0000

Hey great posterous idea! A unified login so this comment showed up on my posterous account would be great! (..in a sidebar category labeled "social comments")

Re: Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head

the405club.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:53:07 -0000

We heart Tumblr!

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Hasan Luongo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:22:49 -0000

excellent post! two great tools, for me its all about posterous, the realization of email as a blog posting format is amazing. its handles media so well, community is a big lag and I've always been frustrated that my two posterous sites share the same profile. themes will be huge, and I would like to post, then choose which sites to push it to. I didn't know you could select which sites to autopost to using email addresses, but that wont work if you run two blogs and use the diff email addresses to select which blog to post to. by far posterous is my fav web app. pls work on autopost so its not a default but an Advanced option so i can select which sites to push content to without confusing my two blogs.

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djackmanson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:22:10 -0000

If you're happy with what Tumblr can already do, there's no reason to use Posterous.

But if you wanted to (for example) post to Tumblr a lot from a mobile phone, and include videos and voice posts in those posts, then using Posterous to post to your Tumblr could be useful. It all depends what you want to do.