Posterous – True Smartphone Blogging

I recently got into a new social media service that is very cool. While it has been around for quite a while, it only just really exploded. You might be thinking “Oh no, not another social media tool du jour” but actually this one is very cool because it ties all your others together and helps you contribute to them.

This service is called Posterous and while it appears to be a stripped down blogging service (and it can be used for that) in fact I have been using it as a media and cross posting service.

You see what it has that none of the others can do is really intelligent multimedia handling and posting via email.

So unlike FriendFeed that aggregates your lifestream, Posterous allows you to post to it. For smartphone owning social media fans it is the ultimate mobile blogging tool – you can keep your friends up to date with everything you are up to in complete multimedia.

Pretty cool, huh?

Yes WordPress and some blogging tools have had post by email before, only Posterous has this level of ease and functionality. There are more features to come, including themes.

Here is a video shot by Steve Rubel interviewing the founders.

Another neat feature is you can point your own domains at it, rather than use the lame *.posterous.com domain. My own Posterous account is at http://www.chrisg.co.uk for example.

This means should anything happen to the service at least you have not lost all your link equity. Take regular backups and you might be able to salvage the whole thing, or move over to WordPress when they inevitably steal all these great ideas.

Once you are a member you can comment and subscribe to other folks Posterous, and comments can also be posted as status updates to keep the conversation crossing over into social media.

I got so into this I think it could be the rebirth of the personal blog after Twitter has had the spotlight for so long. What do you think?

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Blogging, Web 2.0

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8 Responses to “Posterous – True Smartphone Blogging”

  1. Jennifer Breazeale on July 9th, 2009 7:07 pm

    Like most of the rest of the social media tools, it depends on what you’re using it for.

    I’ve used hellotxt.com for posting across services and, though not as elegant as Posterous, it allows a nice level of granularity. I don’t typically want to “post once, publish everywhere” because I have different friends across different services and don’t want to blast them all with the same info.

    I do have to agree with you on the post by email feature; it’s one of, if not the best, out there.

  2. Chris Garrett on July 10th, 2009 11:56 am

    hellotxt.com looks really cool but it is the media file part that got me excited about Posterous :)

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  5. SEO Training Institute on July 13th, 2009 11:43 pm

    Thanks for the post on Posterous. Although familiar with the application I never considered it as a way to feed my other social media apps. It’s a great suggestions simply because updating facebook, twitter and the like seems to be taking more an more time – not leaving any room for blogging. I’ll give it a try.

  6. Chris Garrett on July 17th, 2009 11:38 am

    Yeah it is a real time saver, and actually encourages you to contribute more

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  8. tech expert on December 7th, 2009 9:15 am

    Thanks for the post on Posterous. Although familiar with the application I never considered it as a way to feed my other social media apps. It’s a great suggestions simply because updating facebook, twitter and the like seems to be taking more an more time – not leaving any room for blogging. I’ll give it a try.

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