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Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by ElbertF »

barmstrong wrote: post #70
barmstrong wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed - low blow. Tumblr is actually kicking Posterous' ass in term of UI and ease of use I think. I definitely prefer Tumblr after trying both for a few weeks. This post isn't helping.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/posterous.com+tumblr.com/ Their growth curves show a different story also (I take compete graphs with a grain of salt, but at these traffic volumes it's probably safe to say the overall trend is correct).

Tumblr is definitely a more popular service.

http://wappalyzer.com/stats/app/posterous|Tumblr/websites

Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by buster »

jeffgreco wrote: post #64
buster wrote: post #9

no import from picasa, google reader, last.fm, rss means no tumblr/posterous for me :F I find soup.io just the perfect tool for me, btw ;)

Tumblr can import all these things, any RSS feed you throw at it.

Is there some overview somewhere what automatic imports tumblr supports? Didn't find it on the page.

Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by madh »

buster wrote: post #92
jeffgreco wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tumblr can import all these things, any RSS feed you throw at it.

Is there some overview somewhere what automatic imports tumblr supports? Didn't find it on the page.

Go to 'Customize' for your tumblr site and click 'Services.' At the bottom is 'Automatically import my...'. Choices include Delicious, YouTube, Vimeo, etc and RSS. Support is definitely lacking though and documentation is virtually non-existant.

Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by seancron »

chanux wrote: post #89
gaiusparx wrote: post #17

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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.

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. :)

Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by buster »

madh wrote: post #93
buster wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there some overview somewhere what automatic imports tumblr supports? Didn't find it on the page.

Go to 'Customize' for your tumblr site and click 'Services.' At the bottom is 'Automatically import my...'. Choices include Delicious, YouTube, Vimeo, etc and RSS. Support is definitely lacking though and documentation is virtually non-existant.

I see, thanks. It's a shame that they don't advertise those features better. It's a major point why i use soup.io.

Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by ALee »

ALee wrote: post #37
pclark wrote: post #12

Maybe they should add "Adds hidden affiliate codes to your links. Posterous: YES. Tumblr: NO." ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/posterous-starts-automatica... )

Do you KNOW that Tumblr doesn't do this? Dig a little and I think you'll be surprised how many other services (including Tumblr) do this too...

Oops, so sorry to Tumblr. This was a reckless comment and I'm in the wrong here. I misheard from a good friend that Tumblr does do this, he was actually referring to a number of services.

Just received an email from Tumblr explicitly saying they don't. If I could delete the comment I would (but HN doesn't allow that), but I'll let this stand as my mistake and I'll back out from the Eastside-Westside tech battle.

Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by kmfrk »

dustydean wrote: post #22
dotcoma wrote: post #7

Free 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".

Spot on. I can't recommend people post their longer form content and media on platforms that have an opaque path to generating revenue. I do recommend that they have someone create a self-hosted open source platform for sharing their content online. The custom post types that have finally arrived in WordPress 3.0 allow people to create their own mini-Tumblrs on their self-hosted website. I feel that if someone works…

You could be cute and say that Marco has seen the writing on the wall with his Mac-only backup client (http://www.marco.org/277762675). :)

I belong in the group of people who have yet to be convinced of the financial stability of Tumblr, but its free hosting, great themes and ways to get exposure using the platform in combination with Fusion, Deck and other ads is very attractive; you would not risk any economical loss using Tumblr.

To be fair to Tumblr, most of the people using the service don't seem to blog with writing content with staying value in mind; you could argue that the microblogging serves as a Zeitgeist echochamber similar to what Twitter can be in some instances.

Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by kmfrk »

joshbert wrote: post #20

I don't think this is the right focus for posterous. I really like their approach to blogging, but bad-mouthing other services can backfire in the long run.

I think it's doing a fairly good job of hurting them in the shorter span of time, too.

Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr

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Post by madh »

buster wrote: post #96
madh wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go to 'Customize' for your tumblr site and click 'Services.' At the bottom is 'Automatically import my...'. Choices include Delicious, YouTube, Vimeo, etc and RSS. Support is definitely lacking though and documentation is virtually non-existant.

I see, thanks. It's a shame that they don't advertise those features better. It's a major point why i use soup.io.

Definitely. I even emailed support about it and the response was 'This is not supported' -- like they had never heard of it. Go figure.
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