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Posterous (YC S08) raises ~4.4M from Redpoint, Trinity, and angels

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Re: Posterous (YC S08) raises ~4.4M from Redpoint, Trinity, and angels

#11

Post by pkrumins »

_delirium wrote: post #10
pkrumins wrote: post #7

I'm trying posterous right now for the first time. First impressions: * It got the possessive of my name, Peteris, wrong. If the name ends in -is (or -us), the possessive is Peteris’ not "Peteris’s posterous". (Rule 1 from "The Elements of Style".) * I am not sure why it needed me to validate my email, if I already sent the first mail from my mail and then signed up via the URL in the mail that came back. But it wasn…

The possessive thing actually varies according to stylebooks. The Chicago Manual of Style says to use 's in this circumstance (doesn't fall into one of its exceptions for when to omit the 2nd s), and the MLA Handbook says to always use 's for possessives of singular nouns.

Oh, I see. Didn't know that.

Re: Posterous (YC S08) raises ~4.4M from Redpoint, Trinity, and angels

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Post by jacoblyles »

pkrumins wrote: post #7

I'm trying posterous right now for the first time. First impressions: * It got the possessive of my name, Peteris, wrong. If the name ends in -is (or -us), the possessive is Peteris’ not "Peteris’s posterous". (Rule 1 from "The Elements of Style".) * I am not sure why it needed me to validate my email, if I already sent the first mail from my mail and then signed up via the URL in the mail that came back. But it wasn…

My biggest beef with Posterous's design is that they direct me to their front page too often. When I'm logged in, just take me to my blogs. How many times have I ever seen the front page of blogger?

Re: Posterous (YC S08) raises ~4.4M from Redpoint, Trinity, and angels

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Post by rantfoil »

pkrumins wrote: post #7

I'm trying posterous right now for the first time. First impressions: * It got the possessive of my name, Peteris, wrong. If the name ends in -is (or -us), the possessive is Peteris’ not "Peteris’s posterous". (Rule 1 from "The Elements of Style".) * I am not sure why it needed me to validate my email, if I already sent the first mail from my mail and then signed up via the URL in the mail that came back. But it wasn…

Thanks for the feedback -- this is helpful. The registration step is part of our security, tough to get around if you look at all the possible cases.

Re: Posterous (YC S08) raises ~4.4M from Redpoint, Trinity, and angels

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Post by rantfoil »

jacoblyles wrote: post #13
pkrumins wrote: post #7

I'm trying posterous right now for the first time. First impressions: * It got the possessive of my name, Peteris, wrong. If the name ends in -is (or -us), the possessive is Peteris’ not "Peteris’s posterous". (Rule 1 from "The Elements of Style".) * I am not sure why it needed me to validate my email, if I already sent the first mail from my mail and then signed up via the URL in the mail that came back. But it wasn…

My biggest beef with Posterous's design is that they direct me to their front page too often. When I'm logged in, just take me to my blogs. How many times have I ever seen the front page of blogger?

I hear you. We've got some cool concepts on a dashboard coming... we literally just grew the team by 50% people (2 great engineers) in the last couple of weeks, so we hope to be putting out a lot more good stuff for you.

Re: Posterous (YC S08) raises ~4.4M from Redpoint, Trinity, and angels

#20

Post by nimrody »

At first I was very skeptical. Who needs another blogging platform (tumblr works fine, thank you).

But now that I'm on the road, Posterous does have one big advantage: It works offline too. I use Mail.app to write and when I finally get a reliable connection -- it automatically uploads the new post.

Great work. Thanks guys!

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