Posterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists
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#2I'm not sure, but this, or some evolution of this feature, could turn out to be a real revolution when it comes to group collaboration and sharing.
Or it might just be another feature, or that I'm trying to see something that isn't there.
I've been searching for a merge between this, Chatterous and possibly etherpad for small-group collab. Alas, it eludes me still.
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#3Woah! I can see how this is different from an e-mail list that gets published on the web. ;-)
Interesting to see how a new layer of paint can bring old concepts to the masses.
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#4Posterous is great. I'm interested to know - was this something that you've had planned for a while, or did it come as a natural evolution of the product / feedback from users?
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#5This is ridiculously awesome and the exact feature we needed few months ago.
We started a blog for our larger extended family(50+ people) so there is a simple place for all our family communication. Yet a lot of the people in our family know only rudimentary use of the computer--and that means email. So the blog idea didn't quite work out and we're back to emailing--which is disorganized but works.
With this we can get the best of both worlds! Communicate via email, archive on a blog!
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#6I'm not sure, but this, or some evolution of this feature, could turn out to be a real revolution when it comes to group collaboration and sharing. Or it might just be another feature, or that I'm trying to see something that isn't there. I've been searching for a merge between this, Chatterous and possibly etherpad for small-group collab. Alas, it eludes me still.
We're definitely excited about the potential for this feature to grow into its own product!
You can expect improvements to this coming fast and furious.
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#7Posterous is great. I'm interested to know - was this something that you've had planned for a while, or did it come as a natural evolution of the product / feedback from users?
It's something we talked about even back during last summer when we first launched Posterous. It's great to finally be able to put it out there.
Once we launched group blogs though -- we did start hearing a lot of requests for this feature too. There's absolutely a validation piece to it. When users ask for it, you know there's something there.
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#8I'm more interested in how you got Mashable to cover this (so quickly). Anything you could share there? (yes, PR-related question).
Awesome feature, I'd imagine you will be using this mechanism to allow developers against your API to track API changes? :)
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#9I'm more interested in how you got Mashable to cover this (so quickly). Anything you could share there? (yes, PR-related question). Awesome feature, I'd imagine you will be using this mechanism to allow developers against your API to track API changes? :)
For a brand that's gaining momentum, getting coverage is a bit easier. You might already follow the writers on twitter or vice versa, or if you're in SF/the valley you might even grab coffee with them.
For a company starting out, you need to either have a product so thoroughly badass that it trounces something else that is hot, or you need a connection / intro to someone who knows them well.
It doesn't have to be Michael Arrington himself -- in fact, he's obviously such a busy and important guy that it's almost impossible to get his attention. However, at each of these blogs there are staff writers. They're the ideal person to reach out to -- they're looking for great stories, and hey, you've got one.
Final tip: use bullet points. Include screenshots if you can. If you make it so compelling and so obvious that it's a story, and you practically write it for them, you make their life easier and that makes it a no-brainer for them to write about you.
As for API -- that sounds very cool. We're very psyched about becoming a more open platform to let people build apps on top of Posterous.
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#10This is ridiculously awesome and the exact feature we needed few months ago. We started a blog for our larger extended family(50+ people) so there is a simple place for all our family communication. Yet a lot of the people in our family know only rudimentary use of the computer--and that means email. So the blog idea didn't quite work out and we're back to emailing--which is disorganized but works. With this we can g…
Would love for you to use Posterous for this, and would love to chat with you offline about how it works out for your team and how we can get better. My contact info is in my profile. =)