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Posterous Introduces Seamless Retweeting
We've just introduced a new retweet button that makes it super easy to share interesting stuff with your Twitter followers without ever leaving Posterous.
To disable or enable retweeting, visit your manage page at http://posterous.com/manage and click the "Settings Tab". Under the "Look and Feel" section, click "More Theme Options" and check "Enable Retweet Button." You can also add the retweet button and customize its look on your custom theme. Theme hackers can consult the retweet documentation for our theming engine here. Big thanks to Backtype for supplying all of the realtime retweet counts.
Posted by Vincent Chu
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Mini-feature: Auto-embed Flickr sets and tags
Hey guys... still got a bunch of bigger things in the pipe you'll hear about soon, but wanted to let you know that now you can easily embed Flickr sets and tags. Just paste the URL, e.g. from the address bar:
Got a URL or online embed you'd like auto-expanded? Fire us a note at help@posterous.com. We want to make it brain-dead simple to post everything you could possibly think of.
PicPosterous 1.1 iPhone app is out. Your iPhone photo library, in sync with Posterous and everywhere
We're very excited to announce the first major update to PicPosterous, our dead simple photo and video uploading app for the iPhone. New features include:
• Add photos and video to any album in the app• Delete a single photo from an album, and it's deleted from Posterous as well
• Autopost completed albums to Facebook, Flickr, and everywhere else
• Email a link to your Posterous photo album to your friends from within the app
PicPosterous should be your new iPhone photo library. Add and delete photos from albums as you go, and they will always be in sync with your Posterous site. Getting your photos online has never been easier.
Click here to download it now!
Posted by Sachin Agarwal
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Robert Scoble stopped by Posterous HQ the other day and interviewed us for Building 43!
via building43.com
Robert Scoble swung by our offices in North Beach in San Francisco and we sat down to talk about Posterous, design, and the future of web publishing.
Managing your Posterous just got easier, and your posts are now even more realtime
Roll your own TwitPic-like Media Hosting Using Posterous
One of the more useful aspects of Twitter is the ability to quickly broadcast images, videos, and other media to your followers, making it an effective “mo-blogging” (mobile blogging) platform. Twitter doesn’t have this ability built in, though; sending pictures or video clips to Twitter requires using third-party services like TwitPic. Most Twitter clients will automatically upload images to these third-party hosts and add a link to your tweets, making the whole experience rather seamless.
This is a pretty good solution for casual sharing, but if you’re using Twitter as part of your personal branding efforts, or if you’re serious about the media you’re distributing, you might want more control over how your media is stored and displayed online. TwitPic and the other services don’t offer much in the way of page customization. They also scatter your content over several sites.
Enter Posterous... Using Posterous, I can create a permanent record of the images, videos, audio clips, and other material I post to Twitter, and I can do so in a customizable, brandable space that offers me far more control over my content than I have with services like TwitPic or even Twitter.
Here’s how to set up and use Posterous as a home for all your tweetable media.
via lifehack.org
The Stepcase Lifehack blog has a great tutorial on how to replace twitpic and brand your twitter media experience using Posterous.
With analytics, customizability, and custom domains, why would you use anything else?
Posterous Tip: Turn Posterous tags into autoposted Twitter #hashtags
We all know that Posterous is the easiest way to share photos and videos with your friends on Twitter. Now, we've just added a new feature that turns tags on Posterous into #hashtags when you autopost to Twitter or any other microblog.
For instance:Subject: It really does smell like teen spirit ((tag: grunge, nirvana))
becomes:
To enable this feature, just edit the "Advanced Settings" of your Twitter autopost site by visiting the autopost page and add "{{hash_tags}}" to your custom footer:
Posted by Vincent Chu
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New! Auto-expanding embeds for Lala.com, Viddler, and Google Video
Works great with both the bookmarklet and by pasting the link to songs, albums, and videos directly from those services.
Lala has thousands of songs that are easily embeddable into your blog just by pasting the URL to the album or song. For instance, just paste the URL into its own line in your post:
Viddler and Google Video hosted videos are now supported as auto-expanding site URLS as well. Just paste the URL and go. No need for an embed code.
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New Features
Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours!
Posterous is proud to announce the ability to change the look and feel of your Posterous blog! It's been a long time coming, and are we ever excited about releasing this feature to you guys today.
Choose from five built-in themes
Including one designed by theme creator Bill Israel. And we've got a whole ton more on the way. We wanted to get this in your hands ASAP, and we'll be releasing more into the system as soon as we create them.
Be able to upload header images
Customize your blog by creating a custom blog header in your favorite image editor. Then just upload it and see it at the top of every page on your blog. No coding experience necessary.
And choose new colors
Want to change the link color? Switch something up? Use our color picker and you don't have to code a single line of HTML.
For people who want to customize to the max...
If you're an advanced user, designer, or engineer, now you can totally change the CSS and HTML layout of your site.
Not only that, Posterous Themes are Tumblr-compatible. We built the Posterous Theme Engine to work great with the thousands of existing Tumblr themes out there! Just drop the theme code into the "advanced mode" editor. Want to add commenting and favoriting? It's just a couple lines of simple HTML away. Read more about it in our theming docs.
Some examples of Posterous Themes in the wild...
Check out what Posterous super-themer Cory Watilo has built with full CSS / HTML customization:
Our friends at Mugasha, Vidly, and Tweetvite have all chosen Posterous to host their company startup blogs. Dustin Curtis is liveblogging his 30 day flight on JetBlue on posterous too!
So what are you waiting for? It's enabled on your Posterous blog now. Go to your Manage page, and click Edit Settings > Theme and Customize to get started.
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