I've been using Posterous for ages -- it's genius. I use it for my personal site and we all use it for submitting near real-time blog posts at Mobile Industry Review. I use my Blackberry to take a photo, attach it in an email and send it to my Posterous address. It's online on the site in seconds. Genius, genius service.
Do take a look at it.
Cuppycake
· 10 months ago
I wouldn't say their bookmarklet is "lightyears ahead" of Tumblr. I'd say it's anything but. Tumblr's can do all of this, plus it doesn't try to autoguess what information you're trying to slurp off the page. It's far more user-friendly and makes more sense than Posterous's.
I have been waiting for a Posterous bookmarklet for awhile now, but this one missed the mark for me.
arif
· 10 months ago
I like posterous, they're good.
George
· 10 months ago
>Tumblr’s can do all of this, plus it doesn’t try to autoguess what information you’re trying to slurp off the page.
Wait, isn't the autoguessing part what makes it more user friendly? I really like it so far.
Cuppycake
· 10 months ago
Not when 9 times out 10 it's guessing incorrectly for me.
Garry Tan (cofounder, posterou
· 10 months ago
Cuppycake -- let me know what those URLs are and I'll see what we can do to either improve the results. Thanks for your feedback! garry [at] posterous.com
Garry Tan (cofounder, posterou
· 10 months ago
Hey Marco -- this is a legitimate concern. If customization is important for you, we're not the right thing for that person yet.
Key word is yet. We've only existed for 6 months, and theming is coming very shortly. In fact, it's the next thing we're working on.
sc8tty
· 10 months ago
I loves me some Posterous. Haven't tried the bookmarklet yet but am very, very happy with the platform and the service. Keeps getting better too! Thanks, Gary, for all the hard work.
Tombul
· 10 months ago
I tried it too. Love it.
rikin
· 10 months ago
I don't really think there's a big difference. Instead of arguing over it just pick one and stick to it. Content is king right?
Mickey Pavelick
· 10 months ago
I noticed Posterous doesn't support Myspace when autoposting. Does Tumblr support Myspace when autoposting?
Garry Tan (cofounder, posterou
· 10 months ago
Hey Steve -- with autopost, you can use posterous kind of like you would use twitpic -- post things that are bigger than a tweet but smaller than a full blog post. Post image galleries, music, or video. It can augment your twitter following quite well, similar to the way Guy Kawasaki uses it at http://www.holykaw.com.
Life2oons
· 10 months ago
Posterous I reiterate is the dead simplest blogging platform i have ever used. I thing with regards to simplicity these guys will definitely beat Google. Be it autopost, using it for sharing pics/videos any thing they are the best. Themes i think dont make sense rather they confuse . I ditched Tumblr the day i came to know about Posterous(less bookmarklet) and now now Posterous(plus bookmarklet) is awesome. Be Garry or Sachin they are superb and they we they revert to your queries/feedback is unbelievable.
Best of all is their Google analytics integration. It took 1hr for me to implement Google analytics on my Blogspot blog and on posterous it 5 MIN.What else do you think can get simpler than this. Cheers to you guys. B T W chk my posterous.
Mickey
· 10 months ago
Its turning out that posterous is much better then tumblr. I am using posterous as a ajunct to my Myspace Thoroughbred group. I tried posting workout data at tumblr, and it jumbled all the data up. When I did the same thing at posterous the data was posted perfectly. My first workout data posted at mpavelick.posterous.com was a 17-1 horse who payed $14.00 to place. At: groups.myspace.com/thoroughbredplayersrising I made 7 posts about the horse who beat the 17-1 shot, more then any other horse. I'm looking for blogger types to join my group who might like the action of thoroughbred racing or the triple crown.
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Do take a look at it.
I have been waiting for a Posterous bookmarklet for awhile now, but this one missed the mark for me.
Wait, isn't the autoguessing part what makes it more user friendly? I really like it so far.
Key word is yet. We've only existed for 6 months, and theming is coming very shortly. In fact, it's the next thing we're working on.
Best of all is their Google analytics integration. It took 1hr for me to implement Google analytics on my Blogspot blog and on posterous it 5 MIN.What else do you think can get simpler than this.
Cheers to you guys. B T W chk my posterous.