Aggressive marketing would be a woefully insufficient characterization. As both an entrepreneur and target user, this crosses my personal moral standard. Having said that, its definitely clever and very well written! I will stick with my high school friends on Tumblr though. And so will all of the HiiDef blogs. Tumblr has always been really good to me.
Posterous takes on Tumblr
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
this might imply their original concept of blogging via email had too small a market, and they needed to expand to be more general purpose?
I can think of better strategies for attacking the blogging market. Instead of creating a generic blogging system that just copies Wordpress' features, create the "starter" blog for a set of verticals. Create a 'starter' blog that has the right bells and whistles for each of these individual targets: 1. A startup looking to promote their story (have it pre-set with a "About Us" page, a sidebar section to explain thei…
Incorporating additional data sets like Rotten Tomatoes for movie reviews, etc. would be great for vertical focused systems.
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#83Free service number 1 with no business model in sight wages war against free service number 2 with equally no business model in sight. "web2.0" is the new "New Economy".
Tumblr does have a business model, or at least the start of one: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium
Looks more like a prayer to me...
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tumblr does have a business model, or at least the start of one: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium
Looks more like a prayer to me...
prayer? woothemes makes over 2mil on wp themes alone. and I almost haven't heard of them till the news about the cash.
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#85I wonder what Posterous's arguments were for going for the direct attack route instead of an offer to purchase or merge?
You can get bigger quicker by purchasing competitors than by
swiping their clients I would think.
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#86I like the Posterous guys and have sent a number of users to their service before we (WordPress.com) had our own email feature. I hope when they launch the WordPress one it's nicer in tone. I've been very impressed that even though Tumblr is growing aggressively they've consistently taken the high road,
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#87The timing of this is unfortunate. I imagine that there is a way to prevent the "post via email" hack demonstrated last week but I haven't seen an official response from Posterous (they could send me an email?) which says to me that they don't take the threat seriously. I enjoyed having Posterous feed my entire online presence (twitter, facebook, etc.) but I turned this all off in the wake of the exploit. I'm sure th…
Here's the official response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443143 The exploit only involved a limited set of users and was fixed within hours of discovery.
I guess that's kind of my point, I mean, shouldn't this information been posted somewhere more obvious (the official posterous blog perhaps?) or even better, as an email to registered users?
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#88Feature wars are so trite.
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#89This is a really low blow. This is what companies do when they are clutching at straws - they spread misinformation. Considering: * Most tumblr themes have Disqus integration, and the "tumblr way" to comment is via reblog. * Multiple people can contribute to Tumblr blogs, I can also submit posts even if I'm not a user, and ask the authors questions (formspring style) * I can also password protect my Tumblr. They also…
Posterous tweeted 2 days ago "Posterous launches new tools to switch from dying platforms: One new importer per day for the next 15 days". So Tumblr is a 'dying platform' after Ning huh? Which site is next? Is Wordpress another 'dying platform'? So does Posterous consider Facebook a 'dying platform' and come out an importer for Facebook?
Maybe they should implement an 'import posterous to posterous' tool if they continue this way.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks more like a prayer to me...
prayer? woothemes makes over 2mil on wp themes alone. and I almost haven't heard of them till the news about the cash.
I had no idea. Still, it's great money for two designers who put up a site like that, a bit less for a company funded with millions of dollars like Tumblr. And it's non-recurring (buy it once, and that's it) money, too.