Love it: http://ivankirigin.posterous.com
Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity
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Re: Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity
#12Posterous is a great tool. I don't think Arrington went into enough detail about how well it organizes content you send via email-- you can pretty much send any combination of things, and it automatically turns it into beautifully presented content. The photo viewer for multiple photos, the audio player, etc, are very well thought out. From the few awesome features they have now, it's obvious these guys "get it;" I c…
Post text, photos, MP3s, or videos (if you have Vimeo enabled) directly from your mobile phone. You can use the Subject line to attach a caption to photos.
- http://www.tumblr.com/goodies
Tumblr does need a solution for multiple photos though. Joining a whole new service is probably not the solution, for me at least.
Also, when I used the audio player on the TechCrunch post the interface was pretty unintuitive. There is a huge play button that remains as a play button. To pause it you press the pause or stop buttons, which are available when its not even playing. Generally, the pause button replaces the play button once it is playing. The play button isn't even a toggle, despite the fact it stays pressed in you can't press it press to toggle it back up?
Re: Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity
#13Love it: http://ivankirigin.posterous.com
While we're sharing, here's mine. Add me, add me! =)
Re: Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity
#14we’ll give a free TechCrunch Tshirt to the first person who manages to do a fake post on our Posterous blog Look's like there are already two fake posts: http://techcrunch.posterous.com/ using http://deadfake.com
Shouldn't be hard to fix that - they just need to keep track of the originating SMTP server of the first e-mail.
And what happens if you use gmail or any other large email host?
Re: Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity
#15No. Posterous is really cool and I think it will be a big hit, but sending an email is not simpler than using the Tumblr bookmarklet, which makes blogging practically unconscious.
it certainly is a very, very convenient way to create a new account.
convenient?
if someone is not already logged in their email, they have to type an address and then login. Is that easier from having a simple username/password signup page?
Re: Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity
#16Really cool, love how it formatted everything- looks phenomenal.
Email registration is really awkward, though- I get redirected to Gmail to send a post, then from there to the site to set a account name and password, which I would have done in the beginning with a normal registration process.
Seems like it'd be way, way more straightforward to signup with username/password/domain, and then do the first post as email confirmation. IE "Hey, thanks for signing up for Posterous! To confirm your account and make your first post just reply to this email and attach a picture, mp3, video, or text post- we'll format it and it'll look awesome :) Give it a try!"
Re: Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity
#17I don't agree with the comments here and on TechCrunch about it allowing people who don't understand how to blog to create an account. Those same people are pretty unlikely to even have an email account in the first place.
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#19I don't agree with the comments here and on TechCrunch about it allowing people who don't understand how to blog to create an account. Those same people are pretty unlikely to even have an email account in the first place.
I know plenty of people who use email regularly but claim ignorance as to what a blog is. In fact, I'm related to a few. My guess is that I could get them up and running with Posterous pretty quickly.