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If I was CEO of Posterous

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Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#11
I have always felt like Posterous was a solution in search of a problem. I don't have anything against them, I just prefer other platforms better.

Also, I'd love to see some numbers, but I would bet that a far larger number of people post via the web or other methods than do by email, despite that being its original purpose.

Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#12
John Mayer's said that Twitter's out and Tumblr's in. http://www.geekosystem.com/john-mayer-twitter-tumblr/

Ashton Kutcher's supposedly "directly responsible" for http://nowmov.com existing. (cross between Chatroulette interface and a Tweetmeme for YouTube videos.) http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/07/yc-funded-nowmov-sit-back-r...

If I were Posterous, I'd create a Nowmov for Posterous posts, and then go find some high-profile feedback.

edit: the other thing I'd be interested in seeing on Posterous is an easy way to cross post to other people's group blogs, and some incentive to do so. For example, I created a group blog http://hackerbra.in, but there are no users to post to it. However, there are posts by hackers on Posterous that could be submitted to it; the question is how to make that worthwhile? Could it be automatically done, eg I choose some blogs and have the new blog fill up with posts automagically?

Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#13
Is this so different than say Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" advertisements? Posterous believes they have a system which has a lower barrier of entry for users of these other platforms. The only thing different is that they are taking a more direct advertising route than word of mouth, and are using tactics and advertising styles that you usually only see in much larger companies. Good on them for aiming high!

Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#14
post #8
post #5

It's "If I were the CEO of Posterous." Sorry to be the grammar pedant, but this one always bugs me.

Although this bugs me too, it's not incorrect. It's perfectly understandable in American English, and "correct" in other varieties of English.

yeah, it's more den correct in Jamaica, maan! ;-)

Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#16
Funny - this post and these comments brought me to import my family wordpress blog into posterous and pitch it to my wife. We'll see what she says.

Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#17
post #8
post #5

It's "If I were the CEO of Posterous." Sorry to be the grammar pedant, but this one always bugs me.

Although this bugs me too, it's not incorrect. It's perfectly understandable in American English, and "correct" in other varieties of English.

They mean different things, no? If I were CEO, I'd do things differently. If I was CEO, I don't remember it.

Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#18
post #17
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although this bugs me too, it's not incorrect. It's perfectly understandable in American English, and "correct" in other varieties of English.

They mean different things, no? If I were CEO, I'd do things differently. If I was CEO, I don't remember it.

I'd say you'd have a bright future as a copy editor waiting for you if you desired, but I don't think there are any bright futures left in publishing.

Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#19

I can't believe that all these companies don't make it easier to import. A really (but really) great Wordpress importer must surely make your service attractive to the millions of WP'ers out there? Writing importers for similar services is a great idea if you want to grow.

Actually they do. Most every blog service has both an import and and export, and even though the resulting XML isn't formatted identically, usually an export from any major service will import successfully into any other major service.

FWIW: I've done imports between blogspot, movable type, and wordpress a number of times with rarely a problem.

I suppose it's sort of diabolically evil of Posterous here. They're really just releasing a feature every other blogging service has had for years, but doing it in a way that's great PR.

Re: If I was CEO of Posterous

#20
What I find most useful about Posterous is how dead simple it is to share media from email for virtually painless hosting! The only way anyone could beat that is to use Dropbox!! Now, imagine if you could just post to your blog by putting something in your Dropbox folder. Hmmm, I hope you posterous guys are listening.
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