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Posterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists

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Re: Posterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists

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Post by erlanger »

tybris wrote: post #3

Woah! 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.

And I'm not sure how a mundane feature gets to the top of the homepage just because the company behind it was funded by this site's owner....oh, wait.

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Post by kingsley_20 »

hboon wrote: post #8

I'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? :)

Always know, and work an angle. Most stories have multiple facets - the entrepreneur's personality, background, the product, it's target market, where it's developed, what tech it uses etc - they can all be turned into angles interesting to specific blogs and bloggers. Take every single facet and work out who that angle will be appealing to and pitch it to them right.

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Post by joepestro »

thorax wrote: post #13

I wonder-- are they stripping out the reply/quotations somehow, or are those going to be showing up on the blog, too? Long, long streams of >>>>>>>>>>>>>||||>>>> make for crummy blogging.

Good point. I did an experiment a few weeks ago to see how this was handled on posterous by sending an email to a friend and cc'ing post@posterous.com.

It was handled well on their end with a solid line on the left side of the reply. So it looks like something they are already prepared for.

Re: Posterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists

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Post by qeorge »

I've got a Google Group with old college friends which we've always wanted to be richer, but we don't want to lose the casual members by trying to migrate and change their habits. I think hooking it up to a group posterous account might be the right way to please everyone.

Very cool.

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