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swombat, thanks for the suggestion! Hm, I'll whip something up and post back here when it's ready (hopefully in the next hour). ==================== UPDATE: It's taking a little longer since I'd like to get some really slick syntax highlighting going. It's 3:25 am and I'm still recovering from a cold so I'm going to call it a night, but expect an update on the Posterous blog tomorrow: http://blog.posterous.com ==================== UPDATE 2: I couldn't sleep, so I kept working on it. I've just popped an early version of it live for you to try out. All you have to do is surround your code block with the following tags: [code] your code here [/code] Additionally, if you want to get fancy, you can specify a language with the following syntax: [code lang='java'] public static boolean isAwesome = true; [/code] This should work for both through the web interface and through the email interface. The available list of languages is: 'cpp', 'c', 'c++', 'c#', 'c-sharp', 'csharp', 'css', 'delphi', 'pascal', 'java', 'js', 'jscript', 'javascript', 'php', 'py', 'python', 'ruby', 'rails', 'ror', 'sql', 'vb', 'vb.net', 'xml', 'xhtml', 'xslt', 'html', 'xhtml' Current known issues: HTML formatting might be a little spotty at the moment. Will be fixing asap. I also see some intermittent errors where the code isn't getting properly recognized. Please report any bugs to me at [email protected]. Thanks for all the support and ideas. Please do keep the feature ideas…

FYI.. Posterous is blocked by my corporate internet. Thus, all the images on your site are blocked except your face at the bottom. Based on your corporate access policies, access to this web site ( http://posterous.com/ ) has been blocked because the web category "Social Networking" is not allowed. Notification codes: (1, WEBCAT, BLOCK-WEBCAT...

Just queued up 3 blogs for exporting, working as expected, feels good. :) My only complaint was that I had to give my username/password, but @jazzychad tells me that's the only form of auth for the Posterous API, sadly. If you want to change your password before giving it away, here's the linky: http://posterous.com/#account/edit Update (~10 minutes later): First export is done. Fast S3 download, nice in-archive directory structure, both HTML and JSON outputs, both scales and original media. Everything I could have asked for.

I guess it just depends on your definition of "big". I'm curious to see how many views they have. We have many, many views. Our new Posterous Bar -- http://blog.posterous.com/introducing-the-new-posterous-bar -- was also built using a few Backbone views for those interested. We love Backbone.

> Posterous is unavailable at the moment. We're reloading the site and we'll be back in just a minute or two. -- http://www.posterous.com/

Posterous ended up de-emphasizing the email signup aspect of their service (it's no longer mentioned anywhere on http://posterous.com/ ) - I remember reading something about that decision somewhere, but I can't find it now.

Wow, their new logo looks a lot like the Microsoft Office logo. Compare: https://posterous.com/ with: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/

Heh not sure if you followed my profile and found my blog, but that's exactly why I am looking for an alternative. It really improved when they added Markdown support[1], but Common Lisp isn't a supported language. Also, embedded gists display horribly on aggregated blogs. Thanks for the tip. [1] http://blog.posterous.com/announcing-markdown-support

https://posterous.com/ appears to be the tool of choice for both techie and non people that I know.

On the topic of sending e-mail, I discovered the following note on my utility company's bill payment page. I'm guessing they have never heard of SendGrid or the like. http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/dennis/GGBFG75hiG3uBW… (They did not reply to my friendly e-mail about it. Or perhaps their box was over quota...)

There is a rash of this kind of marketing I see cropping up on Hacker News, marketing which promotes one company while badmouthing another. We saw it from Posterous, Adioso, and now DuckDuckGo. * Adioso vs. Bing: http://blog.adioso.com/sorry-bing-adioso-is-still-the-worlds-only-na * Posterous vs. Tumblr (and others): http://blog.posterous.com/hey-tumblr-users-got-comments-want-video-gra… Setting aside whether or not you want to be perceived as cutthroat or just straight-up douchey, the real question is whether or not this the most effective spin. I think it might be better just to talk about how great privacy is at DuckDuckGo, perhaps in comparison to other search engines in general. DDG calling out Google individually, Adioso calling out Bing individually, or in the case of Posterous, calling out other startups, isn't how I would play the game.

http://blogger.com http://wordpress.com http://tumblr.com http://posterous.com

Here are my thoughts on registration forms: You should always have absolute minimum number of fields required to start using the service. Don't have any optional fields (there are plenty of better places to ask for that information). If there is information required to use certain parts of the service then ask for it when they want to use that part. http://tumblr.com and http://posterous.com examples of this. I'm actually a fan of the single password input too... I implemented a similar form recently: http://hellohype.com/accounts/register, only with a username field instead of a url field. I'm not a big fan of going to the extreme of Instapaper though. They don't require a password at all, so a malicious user can access and modify another user's account.

We have a pretty wide range of customers. It's mostly websites today - niche video sharing sites (http://schooltube.com), blogging engines (http://posterous.com), content sites (http://www.giantbomb.com/), online video publishing tools, and other sites that accept video uploads. We also have mobile and enterprise customers. You'd be amazed how many websites out there need something like this - tens and tens of thousands. Every website with an "upload" button that accepts video or audio files needs transcoding, plus many others. And since a site like Zencoder makes it possible to do complex things with video in 2-3 hours instead of 2-3 months, we open the door to a whole new class of video functionality.

1.Installing wordpress on your domain is free. Use this - http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress It is very easy to set up. 2. I personally use Posterous.(http://posterous.com/) Very easy to use. Has comments too.

I thought Matt Mullenweg, WordPress founder, left a great comment on the "top 5 reasons to switch from WordPress post" at http://blog.posterous.com/top-5-reasons-to-switch-from-wordpress-to-po… that clearly communicated his commitment to serving his customers. "Do you mean WordPress.org or WordPress.com in this post? The graphic isn't entirely accurate for either, but would be best to specify. Also, if you get a chance, WordPress usually has a capital P if you wouldn't mind fixing that up. Also, do you guys still support posting to WP? I sent a few people your way including Jason Calacanis before we had our own email feature, but I can't find info about that on the site anymore.

techtruth, we do offer your data in standard formats: XML through our API. See: http://posterous.com/api/reading What exactly are you looking for? We're open to suggestions and will gladly expand our API to keep Posterous open and flexible. There's no hypocrisy here. Our goal is to let users move into and out of posterous at will, and use whatever service they find to be best. Thanks!

One of the comments from the techcrunch post: there is no hypocrisy here. We have an API that gives users 100% access to all their content on Posterous, including the original media that was uploaded, in it's full size. This API can be found here: http://posterous.com/api/reading There is nothing stopping people from writing Posterous exporters that go to other services. In fact, Wordpress released a Posterous importer a few months ago. We support data portability. It's the user's content, not ours. It's our privilege to host it for our users, and we are working hard to be the best service out there.

Maybe the high school comment was not needed but making it easy to migrate to your service is always a good idea. This is when WordPress started to get real traction. Movable Type did something that pissed off a large number of their users (Moving previously free features into their paid plans if I remember) and WordPress wrote a dead simple migration tool. They then followed by writing a ton of tools to migrate from blogging software. Postures says[1] they are going to release one migration tool a day for the next 15 days... It's a good strategy. [1] http://posterous.com/switch

Garry Tan and YC have come up with something similar to this way of posting information, with http://www.posterous.com. Similar idea, but specific to music artists and their website info.

If you post to http://posterous.com, you can syndicate that video all over the place. Mine sends content to tumblr, Twitter, friendfeed, and facebook.

I'll take the bait and plug posterous here: http://www.posterous.com

is it only me or there is a (just one) line of code gone wrong on ed's comment handling server? {"post_id":131434793,"html":"\u003Cdiv class='p_response_container' style='display:none;'\u003E\n\u003Cheader class='clearfix'\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://edweissman.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code\ class=\"p_view_all_link\"\u003EView All 16\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003Ch1\u003EMost Recent Responses\u003C/h1\u003E\n\u003C/header\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class='p_responses_list clearfix' data-posterous-responses-container\u003E\n\u003Carticle class='p_comment p_response' style='display:none;'\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class='p_info'\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='p_icon'\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\n\u003Ctime pubdate='1337295601'\u003E14 minutes ago\u003C/time\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://tomakefast.com\\u003EPJ Brunet\u003C/a\u003E responded:\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class='p_comment_body'\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class='p_profile_photo'\u003E\n\u003Cimg alt=\"\" src=\"/images/profile/missing-user-35.png?1337287723\" /\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class='p_comment_text'\u003E\nHilarious, I love it.\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cul class='p_action_links'\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\n\u003C/article\u003E\n\n\u003Carticle class='p_comment p_response' style='display:none;'\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class='p_info'\u003E\n\u003Cspan class='p_icon'\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\n\u003Ctime pubdate='1337296138'\u003E5 minutes ago\u003C/time\u003E\nkkudi responded:\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv…

The author, Mark Hughes, is correct in his write-up and comes up with a few suggested scenarios where it would be "ideal". Unfortunately for Color those ideal situations where a critical mass makes the app useful are few and far between. How could Color have demonstrated themselves better? Maybe by launching a SXSW where a tech savvy and experimental crowd would give it a go, see the benefit, and continue on using it. Come to think about it, that is exactly what Twitter did. Now, imagine if twitter launched like Color did. You are posting with no followers, no one you knows sees any reason to use it so your feed is empty. Now add that you are anonymous, can't "follow" anyone, and wait until some random stranger in your vicinity post something but meanwhile your stream is empty. That's Color. Oh, and as for the group event image sharing thing... didn't Posterous launch Events at SXSW? Yes they did (and for $41m less). http://blog.posterous.com/introducing-posterous-for-events-a-place-for

obligatory http://posterous.com/ comment

Use a Send button. http://posterous.com/

I thought Twitter had a fairly decent in-house blogging platform... https://posterous.com/bye.html

I think Garry is being pretty genuine here. I suspect some of the snark on this post stems from Posterous's overly aggressive marketing campaign from a few years back which started off here: http://blog.posterous.com/make-the-switch-to-posterous

They probably bought it for the people. So there would be no one left to work on the Posterous site if everyone is working on Twitter instead. I know they didn't buy it for the infrastructure since it's hosted on Rackspace and Twitter is an AWS shop. https://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous