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At Posterous, we're in the business of making posting dead simple. But what good is posting if you can't share it? Our autopost tools already make it super easy to let your friends on Facebook and Twitter keep updated about your posts. But what about the rest of your friends and family? You know, your grandmother in Omaha or your uncle in Schenectady ..

That's why we created our new subscribe via email feature -- now anybody with an email (last time we checked, that was 2 billion people) can subscribe to receive regular updates from your Posterous blog. Nice and easy, no signup or account required --- now everybody can join the conversation on your blog.

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You've seen post.ly in shortened Posterous URLs, but today we're proud to announce that we've got a lot more in store for the domain. We've released post.ly, a simple and powerful site for posting all kinds of files from your computer to Twitter.

The best part is that post.ly is backed by Posterous so it comes with all the amazing functionality you've come to expect from posterous.com. You can still customize your theme, use your own domain, and add in your own analytics. What's more, with our autopost capabilities there's no reason to stop at just Twitter; post.ly will autopost your post anywhere that Posterous will.

We know you've got something on your hard drive you're dying to share. Get started now.

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OpenBeak 1.2 (formerly TwitterBerry) now supports Posterous for image posting. Select "Posterous" from the "Media Provider" choice on the Configure screen.

Post your tweets and photos to an ad free, customized site that you own!

Visit http://m.openbeak.com on your BlackBerry smartphone to download the app.

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Coke Zero has launched the Department of Fannovation, a website where you can submit ideas to improve the NCAA fan experience. The site was created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, well known for their work for Burger King, Microsoft, and Coke.

The Deparatment of Fannovation was built on Posterous, and takes advantage of our rich media processing, Autopost to social networks, and post moderation. Post moderation allows you to create a site that can be updated by anyone via email. These sites can be used to crowdsource images, video, and text from users.

Help Coke Zero advance the NCAA fan experience. Come up with an idea to make being a fan better and you could win $10,000. Register for the competition and then submit your idea at http://ncaa.cocacolazero.com.

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If you need a way to get people together to contribute to a group blog AND Twitter AND Facebook Page (or any other sites we support), Posterous has an answer for you.

Today, we're launching big upgrades to our group blog system so that now you can setup a group blog to have its own profile AND its own autopost sites. We use it here on our very own blog!

If you haven't set up a group blog before, it's simple. Just go to your Manage page and follow these simple directions:

Posterous group blogs make it easy for lots of people to all post and collaborate because all it takes is an email address -- no Posterous account is needed for people to participate and get right into it. Now we've brought that power to Facebook, Twitter, and wherever else you and your group have an audience.

As always, we'd love to hear about how you're using it and how we can make Posterous even better. Email us anytime at help@posterous.com if you've got comments, questions or suggestions.

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Hey guys -- just wanted to clue you in to a small addition that a lot of you asked for, and is now available.

At post time from the bookmarklet or through the web, you can now choose specific sites from your list of autopost destinations!

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We're happy to announce that Posterous users with custom domains can now enable Facebook comments on their blogs. By doing so, Facebook users will be allowed to login and leave comments using their Facebook identities. They'll also be able to push those comments to their Facebook stream and link back to your blog.

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Just paste the link to a Poll Everywhere poll into an email, and get a simple, good looking web polling widget like this:

To get started, create a poll (it's free and unlimited for web polling when used with Posterous, no registration required) and then copy the URL from the browser, like so:

And paste it into a post or email. We'll handle the rest, and expand the link into the poll you see above. 

Questions? Let us know as usual at help@posterous.com or Poll Everywhere's GetSatisfaction page. What are you waiting for? Try it by creating a poll now!

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New mini-update: We redid the tag editor so that now you can add/edit tags from the post editor and the bookmarklet too. Just hit "More post options" or "Advanced options" and type away.

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