Well, i'm a tumblr user. I read the comments here, and everyone is talking about mailing to post and the bookmarklet as Posterous advantages... well you can email posts to tumblr and the bookmarklet is very good too...
I think that tumblr can be both: a full blog and social media experience, or a simple blog without stress... you choose!! and thats exactly what i love about tumblr
mindset
· 2 months ago
This.
sintrenton
· 1 month ago
Ah, seems I repeated this before reaching here. But considering how many repeat teh mailing thingie, it may perhaps bear repeating. :)
MacSmiley
· 2 months ago
Features aside, Tumblr shows much more respect for intellectual property. When a Flickr photo, for example, is posted to Tumblr, clicking on the image will click through to the creator's photo page. Posterous does not do this. Preposterously, it enables downloads of the image instead. Not all photographers want their images to be stolen this way.
Sir Loin
· 2 months ago
That is an excellent point that I hadn't realized, thanks for mentioning that.
lizlet
· 2 months ago
I've never even heard of Posterous before reading this post. For me, Tumblr's solid UI + strong community = win. And the important element of that equation is the community -- even if Posterous's UI was powered with 100% kitten joy, it wouldn't be able to replace the relationships I've made and maintain on Tumblr.
davidjacobs
· 2 months ago
Oh, but it IS powered by 100% kitten joy ;)
grahamGrafx
· 2 months ago
The contest is: How many people can you motivate in a community to go over to Mashable and vote. That shows the true power and usefulness of a blogging platform.
Hi Liz. Why did you stop following me?
Sir Loin
· 2 months ago
100% kitten joy is THE standard all platforms should strive for :D
Shafiu
· 2 months ago
Tumblr FTW!
Kris Colvin
· 2 months ago
Tumblr's easy for users and I can make pretty things to brand it for me/my clients, which I love. At my site, We Heart Tumblr (http://wehearttumblr.com) I wrote an article called "Why Tumblr?" (http://wehearttumblr.com/post/118600126/why-tumblr) and both my personal and 7 business sites are running on the Tumblr platform. Oh, and did I mention I love Tumblr??? LOL! :-)
david
· 2 months ago
Tumblr by a billion. Posterous is a joke.
onavinyamata
· 2 months ago
There's something about posting from email that I don't like... anyway, I'm sure I need a real Tumblr VS Posterous comparison with full details, pros and cons to decide. By now, I'm with Tumblr.
Liz Teschler
· 2 months ago
Tumblr has an awesome community built into it, and the browsing/discovery interface is super fun. Posterous seems to attract a more mature crowd (definitely not a bad thing!). I've been thinking of checking it out.
Gus
· 2 months ago
I love sending pics directly from Picasa to Posterous via email and having it go out to Flickr, Friendfeed, Twitter, and my Blog all automatically. Also, Posterous does multimedia right. It's amazing the variety of file types they can handle and display properly...
Used cars by owner
· 2 months ago
No doubt... tumblr is better..
Kamamiya
· 2 months ago
personally love posterous. simple email posting, smart, multimedia support, autopost, constantly improving/adding features, and THEME!!! love it!
Ryan
· 2 months ago
multimedia support? where? posterous sucks that you cant upload photos at all and have to fumble with HTML to add pics. I use both but only use posterous for text posting only.
Justin Strasburg
· 2 months ago
Send it a pic through email to post @posterous.com and you are done. Posterous is built around email not a web interface.
Tal Shafik
· 2 months ago
I agree. Posterous should improve their web editor to include media uploads.
J.P.L. Martín
· 2 months ago
They will add media management to web interface, just a matter of time!
Kyle4Jesus
· 2 months ago
What? Posterous allows you to upload anything you want with no per file size limit and no maximum number of file uploads per day. Just attach it to the email you send them. No, unfortunately you can't yet upload on the post by web editor yet, but I just saw that functionality for the first time today. The upload there is coming. But for now, just send an email to post@posterous.com and attach any photo or file of any kind along with your text. They know exactly what to do with it, even if it's a nonstandard file, in which case they put it at the bottom of your post with an icon, the name and size of the file and a download link. And if you attach multiple pics, they make a cool gallery automatically. Sucks that you can't yet add pics to it, but that's coming as well from what I can tell. Hope this helps.
paulzink
· 2 months ago
Ryan, it's very easy to upload photos to Posterous using email, I do it all the time. Video too. If it's easy for me, a 57 year old guy, then I'm sure you can figure it out.
Trudy
· 2 months ago
Love Posterous. Love. Clean, simple and I like that the actual people who found it are the ones that email me when I send a help email. I love to explore blogs and it sorts them at random. There are some really smart as well as interesting people with blogs on Posterous. It's been great since joining in August. :)
monopiece
· 2 months ago
wow ~
externe festplatten
· 2 months ago
Great post. I was working on an article for Posterous but you say it all. Posterous is simple yet keeps pleasantly surprising me as I discover more of its abilities. Looking forward to see how it continues to evolve its social interaction side. Kudos!
ewebber
· 2 months ago
I love tumblr - but, maybe it's time to actually try posterous and see what it's about
Both are okey, but just found posterous before and I´m pretty satisfied with it. Simplicity posting (by mail or by bookmarklet) and the cleanliness of its front-end (didn´t even change theme although being it posible)
I think it´s a reliable companion when surfing the web and don´t want pages, pics or vids forgotten
dotlizard
· 2 months ago
Still use my Tumblr, but more and more the ability to auto-post to more sites (including Plurk!), and the whole email thing won me over to Posterous.
victed
· 2 months ago
I love posterous! I wanted to share by clicking 'Share This' powered by AddToAny and unfortunately Share This doesn't support posterous but Tumblr LOL!! What's happening here? @victed
Ethan
· 2 months ago
Tumblr for me. I joined posterous, but wanted a completely custom experience and turned to tumblr. Two weeks later posterous added custom themes - but I am happy at tumblr.
mymelodie
· 2 months ago
I <3 Posterous because it automatically updates my Tumblr and has so many more robust functions and features!
Kyle4Jesus
· 2 months ago
Voted for Posterous. Sure Tumblr has markdown and javascript support, but these are coming to Posterous in the future. Posterous gets my vote because they let me choose to allow people to download the files I post. This is important to me because screen readers don't like the flash players for either Posterous or Tumblr, so having the download link available allows people who use screen readers like myself to listen to the mp3 files I create and post from time to time. I also like the fact that Posterous doesn't care what type of file is posted. They will host and link to all types of files, whereas if Tumblr sees a file it doesn't recognize, it ignores it without giving any kind of indication until you read the post that the file has disappeared into the great unknown of cyberspace. Furthermore, if I email Posterous support I get an answer directly from a Posterous founder, whereas if I email Tumblr support I get an autoresponder that tells me they got my message followed about 2 to 3 days later by a message containing a case number which, if necessary, is forwarded to the dev team. I also like the speed at which Posterous comes out with new features. At the rate they're going, they will far surpass Tumbler by the time they have been on the web as long as Tumblr has now.
Posterous is fantastic. Not only is it practically idiot proof - as simple as simple can be - but it's also extremely powerful. Being able to control precisely where my content ends up (and PER POST, no less) is incredibly useful.
optimisingjames
· 2 months ago
Posterous has some really great functionality that can be used on the fly and although Tumbler has some cool features-Posterous by a knockout
jaycclee
· 2 months ago
It's tough!! Posterous is so versatile, it can autopost to almost every major social network by using your email. However, I like Tumblr's integration with Facebook. It doesn't mean that Posterous' integration is bad. I just like the way Tumblr shows the information at my Facebook status. If I really have to choose, I'll give Posterous a slightly edge of its versatility.
fla030
· 2 months ago
Love posterous. Moved all 3 of my blogs to them!
Jonathan
· 2 months ago
Absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Posterous. It simply is how simple blogging should be.
Posterous is great but it still need some work. Like composing drafts, uploading music directly and timestamping. More themes would be welcome too since not everybody if fully literate in how to work css.
Michael
· 2 months ago
I love tumblr, but these guys let posterous took them over so fast:
While posterous offered galleries, tumblr started to enable multiple file-uploads (still, one by one!)
While posterous was connected to all major social media, tumblr opened up eg facebook integration in the last 14 days.
While posterous never forced me to be part of some community, I am regularly shown what a jerk I am in tumblr with the tumblarity-index, a number that compares you to all other bloggers on tumblr.
In my opinion, posterous should win here, but this should be a big signal for tumblr to get back to work and finally grow up!
Arjan Tupan
· 2 months ago
I used Tumblr a while, but found myself forgetting about it. To me, that indicates that it's not working for me. Had some issues with importing an rss feed as well, that inpredictably worked, and then not. Posterous is a different story. From the moment I started using it, it's been easy and wonderful to use. Have a nice group blog going now as well for a charity event (shameless plug alert: http://10K4n.posterous.com), and it just is a wonderful service. Since the themes, I'm hooked. Now considering moving my entire original blog to this great platform. For me, posterous is in a different league than Tumblr.
Will be interesting to see who wins this battle out, as this fight is something we're keeping a close eye on at http://expndr.com, to see what features users want, and what to throw away as needless excess.
finalwebsites
· 2 months ago
Never used tumblr, but posterous looks much better. Most of all posterous is perfectly connected to other social media sites
clutterbells
· 2 months ago
I have both and use Posterous to quickly post everywhere including Tumblr. So simple and elegant.
kai
· 2 months ago
I think it's an inappropriate comparison – even though it's one that everyone likes to make. But it does a disservice to Posterous.
What makes Posterous interesting is the ability to post to multiple services. The life blog/aggregation part just is a collection of those posts. Tumblr is only a blog.
If Posterous took the blog away completely, i would still see its value in allowing you to post to Facebook/Flickr ... and even Tumblr - simultaneously.
elmot l PinoySoundingBoard
· 2 months ago
I haven't tried posterous though I have seen some of my friends actually use it. I find Tumblr quite bugging coz one cannot comment without logging in...unless Tumblr has already made some adjustments to this.
mariusz
· 2 months ago
You forgot soup.
Teepagorn
· 2 months ago
For those who enjoy rich features and community, Tumblr is a clear winner, but on the simplicity side, I think Posterous provides more for those who just need a basic task done.
litmanlive
· 2 months ago
I voted Posterous because it's just so easy to use. I've posted more to my Posterous (http://litmanlive.posterous.com) profile in a day than I have to my Wordpress blog (http://litmanlive.com) in a month. The bookmarklet makes it super easy to share other peoples content (always crediting the source) and I find that I use Posterous as a quick way of getting ideas down and then I flesh them out further with my Wordpress blog should they be of sufficient interest.
Importing your Tumblr in to Posterous makes it a no brainer.
@litmanlive
Anand
· 2 months ago
Mashable has become a joke..It is either these useless polls or youtube videos. When was the last time you guys posted something worthwhile (other than rehashing content from other places on the web)...
Tal Shafik
· 2 months ago
Tumblr's only strong points are the theme gallery and enabled JavaScript. Posterous takes everything else, and will eventually allow widgets (and hopefully full JavaScript support) and themes are slowly being developed by the community.
Fadi Rizk
· 2 months ago
blogging for me was something i would NEVER do because HTML and CSS or whatever else was something I simply had no time for. But then came posterous......no need to learn anything. Just send us an email....and that's all I needed, now I "blog".
Not to mention that if you're stuck and you send them an email the co-founders Sachin or Garry will most likely respond within a day or two. That blows me away
dainathomas
· 2 months ago
I was not using this site .. but just created an account over there.. this is so simple .. I logged into it with my Facebook account and it asked for url's name ... this is so simple and easy to use .. loved it
Cheers, Daina
Croutons
· 2 months ago
I switched today from Tumblr to posterous. Imported all my Tumblr posts into Posterous. Would Tumblr allow the same?
Dydi
· 2 months ago
TUMBLR IS THE BEST!
quackofdawn
· 2 months ago
«And don’t forget: once you vote, let us know your logic and reasoning in the comments.» I can't...it's emotional: POSTEROUS. It was love at first sight...from the day they released it. After that I've watched, in amazement, how they've added features ... one after the other ... kept getting better. I thought it was really good from day one. I've moved my, formerly WP hosted, domain there. Now we can customize the look and feel of it too, even if I find it somewhat complicated to import the Tumblr themes still.
It doesn't matter if you just want to post a little snippet from the web somewhere, with the 'bookmarklet', or write a long, cathartic blog -- it's so dead simple.
Those two guys, the founders of Posterous, have something really great going here..
Ruhani Rabin
· 2 months ago
LOL! where did my comment went to ..
Pascual Cora Jr.
· 2 months ago
I use both, but the kicker here is that Posterous is my main and from there I Auto post to Tumblr. Dead Simple post by e-mail or bookmark = Posterous for me. I like where they are heading with Posterous and I think I'm going to be sticking around with them.
xposure
· 2 months ago
Posterous gets my vote. I tried both for over 6 months and posterous was quicker, easier and had more features. Also Posterous keeps on evolving, every month there is a new feature or development. The developers are really, really on the ball.
Ruhani Rabin
· 2 months ago
The previous comment didn't went through!
I think ease of use Posterous is fine .. but autoposting should have a option to choose where to post .. and definitely need a post template option.. Customization options are less compared to tumblr.. now .. what to say.. it should be a tie on different directions..
Lets Take a Look Below:
Tumblr: Autopost - Twitter Only (2/5) Easiness - 5/4 Customization- 5/5 Reach - 4/5 Bookmarklet options 4/5 Capture Media - 4/5 Multiple RSS Import Type 4/5 User Level - Intermediate/Advance Email post - NO IPhone App - YES
Posterous: Autopost - Many (4/5) Easiness - 5/5 Customization- 3/5 Reach - 2/5 Bookmarklet options 2/5 Capture Media - 3/5 Multiple RSS Import Type - N/A User Level - Beginner/Intermediate Email post - YES IPhone App - NO
Practical experience.. I feel.. If you are a beginner and quote or collect a lot of text from various web pages quickly .. you should use posterous ( example, 3 out of your 5 post is texts or quotes).
On the other hand if you are a bit advanced and like to capture more photos, media and embed videos .. you might wanna get into tumblr..
Well this is still my personal opinion.. not to mention tumblr community is really big.. they have some creative exploration options to find interesting users...
Addition to all this .. I also want to tell about soup.io ... they seem pretty promising too..
Pascual Cora Jr.
· 2 months ago
Just wanted to point out,
Posterous does have an iPhone app, you can also post to twitter only by using the following:
Thanks for the Soup.io recommendation i will check it out.
Ruhani Rabin
· 2 months ago
Thanks a lot .. yes LOL! i forgot about it .. my bad .. yeah do check out soup.io.. seems i can't edit the original comment.. sigh
ScreenPresence
· 2 months ago
I love Posterous. It's a great and simple idea, well executed.
ljjspeaks
· 2 months ago
Hands down Posterous - it's fun to say and easy to use. There is no imposterous for posterous and I'd be postumus if posterous were not in my vocabulary or everyday use.
Andrew
· 2 months ago
Posterous is awesome. I use it for podcasting. They host all my audio files for me and, like any Posterous, generate the RSS feed. They've made podcasting so simple.
Vik Duggal
· 2 months ago
I've used both and this is easy - love posterous because a) Sachin & Gary rock! and b) it's all about email!
I've recommended it to clients and have never had a complaint.
Pierre
· 2 months ago
I'd say Posterous beats Tumblr in ease of use, which technically should win it, but the community on Tumblr is so so much bigger and (from my experience) more varied and vibrant.
I come across much more interesting content on Tumblr than anywhere else on the web, so that's the deal clincher for me.
It's also already established itself as an inspiration/buzz hub. I think the adoption of Tumblr is too far ahead for Posterous to ever catch up.
Ryan Biddulph
· 2 months ago
Tumblr's user experience requires too much effort for me. I am not fan of either blogging service but prefer Tumblr less.
TamahomeJenkins
· 2 months ago
I've never used tumblr before, but I love that posterous works so seamlessly in publishing to your other services, and all through email. The one knock I have against tumblr is that whenever I see a tumblog I like, I always have to sign up for tumblr to be able to comment.
Pixelrage
· 2 months ago
Never heard of Posterous but just gave it a shot. I appreciate how they tried something unique, but it's too foreign to me to do everything through email...therefore, I'm sticking with Tumblr.
On a side note, I'm not a fan of any of these things. Sorry to plead ignorance...but why would anyone bother using these services instead of getting a cheap hosting account and installing Wordpress?!
Jim Graham
· 2 months ago
I've used both and prefer posterous. The great support for email posts and autoposts to other sites is great. That said, my Wordpress blog is being neglected and I think I'd take either of that these days.
danceonthesun
· 2 months ago
tumblr FTW
RJSilva
· 2 months ago
I used to think Tumblr looked better, but now that Posterous has themes, forget it; it's Posterous all the way!
Mary
· 2 months ago
Posterous, all the way! It is the simplest system to use out there. Im email challenged and even I figured this one out! In His Love and Care, Mary
JT
· 2 months ago
People forget too quickly Google's Blogger... it got better and got boosted by sidewiki.
Zafarali Ahmed
· 2 months ago
POST-EROUS :)
Jackson
· 2 months ago
If Tumblr would let me put Google Analytics code on it, I'd vote for Tumblr. But it doesn't, so Posterous it is.
joecastagna
· 2 months ago
although I see posterous becoming a much better application, I still think tumblr is the best right now for simple blogging. The UI is much better, and there is just a lot more customization that you can do with it. I find it to just be an all around better platform.
I do have to say that posterous is DEAD simple, but I as a power user am not concerned with that as much as other's would be.
BlaqueSaber
· 2 months ago
Posterous is just so fast and slick with all of the different ways you can get info into and out of it. That, with recent updates such as: ~inline twitter hashtags, ~Auto Post to Scribbed, ~Images "inline" or "in gallery", ~Feed Burner support and more.
The thing that turns me off about tumbler is that everything you subscribe to is in your dashboard. Your items as well as all the items you subscribe to. Posterous divides them up into separate streams.
mindset
· 2 months ago
Tumblr has a separate stream for your own posts too, though. The Dashboard has everything your followers post, plus what you post, while the separate stream page has just what you post along with your notifications (if someone reblogs or likes your post, or starts following you).
BlaqueSaber
· 2 months ago
And my limited experience with Tumblr shines through...damn. Still I feel as if Posterous was just simpler to get into and much more intuitive.
Lynne d Johnson
· 2 months ago
I think posterous adds an elegance and simplicity that tumblr just doesn't have. Though tumblr was my fave until posterous got themes. It was a little too boring before. Tumblr does seem to support multimedia better and makes community (following folks) a lot easier.
Justin Strasburg
· 2 months ago
I choose Posterous because of it simple beauty and the connections it has with other sites and networks. I have used both and still use both but I choose Posterous.
tylergarner
· 2 months ago
I love Tumblr. It is extremely simple and allows you as much customization as you need. It has an clean, intuitive interface with all the features needed to maintain a respectable and interesting blog. As a web developer, tumblr's API is great too! It is simple and allows for great customization and implementation into other websites.
Tumblr is great.
sphibbs
· 2 months ago
Yahoo Meme For Life!
mindset
· 2 months ago
tee hee
Cody Gibbs
· 2 months ago
I wonder how many people will vote for Tumblr that haven't even tried Posterous. If you try both, the answer is pretty clear.
greasyguide
· 2 months ago
Hands down Posterous. I tried Tumblr and it's ok but Posterous has them beat hands down.
milkfish
· 2 months ago
Posterous is going to win big among those people we all know whose level of comfort with the Internet stops pretty much at email. They make it so easy to set up and maintain a nice-looking blog that once the word of mouth spreads, I can see them taking off in leaps and bounds. I know tumblr has been around much longer and has its established fanbase too, but it feels like their users might be maybe just a little less afraid of trying out new and unfamiliar things.
I've got one up at http://poorpoorthing.com and am working on my wife to set up one of her own too.
Melissa Leon
· 2 months ago
Love tumblr! They released a whole bunch of new themes a while ago which I adore. Love the reblogging/love feature. And emailing in posts is super easy.
cjguest
· 2 months ago
For me, Posterous is clearly the better choice. I love that it's email based. It's simple, clean, and whenever I have an issue or a question, they are quick to respond. The autoposting puts them over-the-top. In fact, I have Posterous autoposting to my Tumblr.
marcos
· 2 months ago
Honestly, I just don't like the name "TUMBLR."
kapi
· 2 months ago
I use Blogspot.
Paulo Pina
· 2 months ago
Posterous rulez!
Louis Trapani
· 2 months ago
I use them both for different purposes. Each have their pros and cons. I only started to use Posterous in August, whereas I have been using Tumblr for a few years now. The autopost feature of Posterous is a real plus, but not being able to monetize (i.e. Google's Adsense) on Posterous, as you can with Tumblr means I currently post more Tumblr.
paulzink
· 2 months ago
Voted for Posterous because it's so damned easy and quick to use.
OK, perhaps not a actual real reason. But I like that I can simply email small micro-blogs, attaching link to youtube or a photo and it will be displayed correctly.
Also that it autoposts your photos to your flickr/facebook account, fully updates your blog account (at least with blogger, not sure on other platforms) and status updates your twitter/facebook account.
Basically I can do very little (one smal email) and get a lot of reach (blogger/facebook/twitter/flickr....and more)
Wally
· 2 months ago
Posterous is the best but I think Tumblr has a headstart and so more fans will vote Tumblr but I just love Posterous so very very much and Sachin and Gerry are the coolest guys too.
seda irengü özmen
· 2 months ago
I examined both of them. And I decided to use Posterous who has more sharing options and the whole publishing from email. As mentioned earlier Posterous should improve little bit their web editor to include media uploads. Need to know a little bit HTML.
Daniel Saradin
· 2 months ago
Posterous all the way. It's such an easy to use site with so much to offer the end user. I don't even know why a vote is being held. Posterous all the way!
rixx03
· 2 months ago
Posterous is weird and hard to get used to, IMO. I don't even know why a vote is being held. Tumblr all the way! :)
rixx03
· 2 months ago
Tumblr's just plain better, hands down. Come on! Comparing Posterous to Tumblr is like comparing China-made iPhones to original iPhones from Apple. I'm sure it has its pros, but nothing beats how user-friendly and intuitive Tumblr is.
Croutons
· 2 months ago
I see that many comments vote posterous, but yet the poll shows that tumblr is leading.
tuxme2
· 2 months ago
I use both, and I recommend posterous because it is easy.
CharlesFernando
· 2 months ago
I vote for tumblr. cuz i begin there, i love the elegance and sofistication for theming (also they made changes and changes for better all time), but i still don't get the spirit of the community... but posterous have a charm anyway, i use it to post only for my facebook friends, like a secret link between us.
I believe tumblr. will grow, become more and more like wordpress, the micro-blogging thing is hard to maintain with such innovations... once you starting adding things.. is not micro anymore...
(ps: i vote for you guys, please get my text editor with "center, justify, left, right" now)
J.P.L. Martín
· 2 months ago
Well i just think the same that @Kamamiya said! Specially "Constantly Improving/Adding Features!! Sooner or later posterous will rule the world.
madthoughts
· 2 months ago
Tumblr rules Posterous drools. Woot! Woot!
Malcolm Bastien
· 1 month ago
One thing I'd actually like to see is what service are different Tech/Web celebs using. Just as much as a contest, I'm sure that would influence some people's actions as well.
sintrenton
· 1 month ago
Ok, I haven't read all 117 comments (yet), but one of the things I really like with Tumblr is the ability to post through mail, including photos, formatted text, and tags. A lot of posterous users mention the email posting, something Tumblr has had as long as I can remember? (I started with Tumblr in Feb 2007)
sintrenton
· 1 month ago
Apart from the posting, but if there is a Tumblr user unaware of it, I can recommend the java script bookmark. Quick and easy, allowing you to decide if a post (or just partial text you marked) is to be posted as text, link, quote, etc.
All Comments
I think that tumblr can be both: a full blog and social media experience, or a simple blog without stress... you choose!! and thats exactly what i love about tumblr
Hi Liz. Why did you stop following me?
size limit and no maximum number of file uploads per day. Just attach it
to the email you send them. No, unfortunately you can't yet upload on
the post by web editor yet, but I just saw that functionality for the
first time today. The upload there is coming. But for now, just send an
email to post@posterous.com and attach any photo or file of any kind
along with your text. They know exactly what to do with it, even if it's
a nonstandard file, in which case they put it at the bottom of your post
with an icon, the name and size of the file and a download link. And if
you attach multiple pics, they make a cool gallery automatically. Sucks
that you can't yet add pics to it, but that's coming as well from what I
can tell. Hope this helps.
http://www.seodoom.info/2009/09/home-gardening/
I think it´s a reliable companion when surfing the web and don´t want pages, pics or vids forgotten
While posterous offered galleries, tumblr started to enable multiple file-uploads (still, one by one!)
While posterous was connected to all major social media, tumblr opened up eg facebook integration in the last 14 days.
While posterous never forced me to be part of some community, I am regularly shown what a jerk I am in tumblr with the tumblarity-index, a number that compares you to all other bloggers on tumblr.
In my opinion, posterous should win here, but this should be a big signal for tumblr to get back to work and finally grow up!
Posterous is a different story. From the moment I started using it, it's been easy and wonderful to use. Have a nice group blog going now as well for a charity event (shameless plug alert: http://10K4n.posterous.com), and it just is a wonderful service. Since the themes, I'm hooked. Now considering moving my entire original blog to this great platform. For me, posterous is in a different league than Tumblr.
Go Tumblr!
PosterousはThemeが変えられないのが逆にシンプルで良かったのに
What makes Posterous interesting is the ability to post to multiple services. The life blog/aggregation part just is a collection of those posts. Tumblr is only a blog.
If Posterous took the blog away completely, i would still see its value in allowing you to post to Facebook/Flickr ... and even Tumblr - simultaneously.
Importing your Tumblr in to Posterous makes it a no brainer.
@litmanlive
Not to mention that if you're stuck and you send them an email the co-founders Sachin or Garry will most likely respond within a day or two. That blows me away
Cheers,
Daina
I can't...it's emotional: POSTEROUS. It was love at first sight...from the day they released it. After that I've watched, in amazement, how they've added features ... one after the other ... kept getting better. I thought it was really good from day one. I've moved my, formerly WP hosted, domain there. Now we can customize the look and feel of it too, even if I find it somewhat complicated to import the Tumblr themes still.
It doesn't matter if you just want to post a little snippet from the web somewhere, with the 'bookmarklet', or write a long, cathartic blog -- it's so dead simple.
Those two guys, the founders of Posterous, have something really great going here..
I think ease of use Posterous is fine .. but autoposting should have a option to choose where to post .. and definitely need a post template option.. Customization options are less compared to tumblr.. now .. what to say.. it should be a tie on different directions..
Lets Take a Look Below:
Tumblr:
Autopost - Twitter Only (2/5)
Easiness - 5/4
Customization- 5/5
Reach - 4/5
Bookmarklet options 4/5
Capture Media - 4/5
Multiple RSS Import Type 4/5
User Level - Intermediate/Advance
Email post - NO
IPhone App - YES
Posterous:
Autopost - Many (4/5)
Easiness - 5/5
Customization- 3/5
Reach - 2/5
Bookmarklet options 2/5
Capture Media - 3/5
Multiple RSS Import Type - N/A
User Level - Beginner/Intermediate
Email post - YES
IPhone App - NO
well if this is not enough
One of my Posterous geektech.posterous.com
One of my Tumblr ruhanirabin.tumblr.com
What would you choose..
Practical experience.. I feel.. If you are a beginner and quote or collect a lot of text from various web pages quickly .. you should use posterous ( example, 3 out of your 5 post is texts or quotes).
On the other hand if you are a bit advanced and like to capture more photos, media and embed videos .. you might wanna get into tumblr..
Well this is still my personal opinion.. not to mention tumblr community is really big.. they have some creative exploration options to find interesting users...
Addition to all this .. I also want to tell about soup.io ... they seem pretty promising too..
Posterous does have an iPhone app, you can also post to twitter only by using the following:
twitter@posterous.com, or you can post to specific pages by combining:
twitter+facebook+tumblr@posterous.com or any other combo you can think of.
Thanks for the Soup.io recommendation i will check it out.
I've recommended it to clients and have never had a complaint.
I come across much more interesting content on Tumblr than anywhere else on the web, so that's the deal clincher for me.
It's also already established itself as an inspiration/buzz hub. I think the adoption of Tumblr is too far ahead for Posterous to ever catch up.
On a side note, I'm not a fan of any of these things. Sorry to plead ignorance...but why would anyone bother using these services instead of getting a cheap hosting account and installing Wordpress?!
I do have to say that posterous is DEAD simple, but I as a power user am not concerned with that as much as other's would be.
The thing that turns me off about tumbler is that everything you subscribe to is in your dashboard. Your items as well as all the items you subscribe to. Posterous divides them up into separate streams.
Tumblr is great.
I've got one up at http://poorpoorthing.com and am working on my wife to set up one of her own too.
OK, perhaps not a actual real reason. But I like that I can simply email small micro-blogs, attaching link to youtube or a photo and it will be displayed correctly.
Also that it autoposts your photos to your flickr/facebook account, fully updates your blog account (at least with blogger, not sure on other platforms) and status updates your twitter/facebook account.
Basically I can do very little (one smal email) and get a lot of reach (blogger/facebook/twitter/flickr....and more)
I believe tumblr. will grow, become more and more like wordpress, the micro-blogging thing is hard to maintain with such innovations... once you starting adding things.. is not micro anymore...
(ps: i vote for you guys, please get my text editor with "center, justify, left, right" now)