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

Posterous (YC S08) raises ~4.4M from Redpoint, Trinity, and angels
blog.posterous.com

Congrats!

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't difficult so ok.

* Regging was really quick. Quickest I have ever had.

* Had a dot in the first post's title, it got deleted in the URL. Would have liked if it was rather replaced by a dash.

I like it overall. I am not going to use it actively as I already have a blog but I would if I hadn't as it gets you blogging in no time.

http://ncaa.cocacolazero.com/

http://blog.posterous.com/advertising-agency-crispin-porter-...

There was a TechCrunch story that referred to it as "jumping on the revenue wagon", so they're definitely getting money out of it, but it was written by Daniel Brusilovsky, the 17-year-old intern that extorted startups, and they deleted all of his articles when they terminated him.

Edit: Google cache of the TechCrunch article: http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:bi6GJIQbFY0J:www.techcr...