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Re: One time post, an easy way to blog

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Post by bambax » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 3:13 PM UTC

webwanderings wrote: post #20

bambax wrote: post #10

I had a similar idea with Urgeous: http://urgeous.com/ It lets one blog by email, without the necessity of prior login ("no login necessary... or possible"). It's not generating much interest but the one consistent advice I got was that people would like to personalize the experience (register their own handle instead of having their posts listed under a number). So I'm working on this feature now. Good luck to you a…

I sent a test email, nothing happened. I think your idea/site needs explanation. I cannot tell what your site provides.

Normally Urgeous responds with the url of your post. If you still haven't received anything in the next few minutes you can email support@urgeous.com with the same email account and we'll look into it!

Thanks for testing.

Also thanks for the info that it's not clear what the service does; I'll add a simple description.

Re: One time post, an easy way to blog

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Post by webwanderings » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 3:13 PM UTC

bambax wrote: post #10

I had a similar idea with Urgeous: http://urgeous.com/ It lets one blog by email, without the necessity of prior login ("no login necessary... or possible"). It's not generating much interest but the one consistent advice I got was that people would like to personalize the experience (register their own handle instead of having their posts listed under a number). So I'm working on this feature now. Good luck to you a…

Okay I see what you're doing. Cool idea. Perhaps you can take over old Posterous users.

Re: One time post, an easy way to blog

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Post by webwanderings » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 3:40 PM UTC

bambax wrote: post #21

webwanderings wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sent a test email, nothing happened. I think your idea/site needs explanation. I cannot tell what your site provides.

Normally Urgeous responds with the url of your post. If you still haven't received anything in the next few minutes you can email support@urgeous.com with the same email account and we'll look into it! Thanks for testing. Also thanks for the info that it's not clear what the service does; I'll add a simple description.

You should keep it simple: blog via email, or something like that. I also agree that people would want their own username in the URL and the URL itself needs to be descriptive. Unless you're building a throw-away type of blogging system where people can blog anonymously, I think it makes sense to give users the ability to have easy-to-read blog setup.

Re: One time post, an easy way to blog

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Post by Schwolop » Tue, Apr 23, 2013, 10:59 PM UTC

bambax wrote: post #10

I had a similar idea with Urgeous: http://urgeous.com/ It lets one blog by email, without the necessity of prior login ("no login necessary... or possible"). It's not generating much interest but the one consistent advice I got was that people would like to personalize the experience (register their own handle instead of having their posts listed under a number). So I'm working on this feature now. Good luck to you a…

That's pretty cool too! I had a less similar idea into which your Urgeous was a to-do feature (and never done...) My idea was WikiBlog (http://wikiblog.jugglethis.net) and was essentially an (optionally) anonymous blogging platform with posts (optionally) left unlocked and editable by others, like a wiki, and hence the name.

It never took off, but I do think there's merit to all these ideas. I always figured the biggest benefit of my concept was what Quora's blogs have just provided - instant audience. Rather than needing to write for months/years without anyone reading, you tag things with topics and people interested in those get your posts in their feed. That is a huge win in my book.