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Hi everyone! I'm Adam. I'm one of the newest members of the Posterous team. I blog about user interfaces, food, and stuff that should go back to Berkeley, among other things. I'm very excited to meet all of you.

1. In the web editor, click the "Page Break" icon (pictured below)
2. If you are posting via email, just add "#more" to a new line in your message

As always, we appreciate your feedback on new features!

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We just closed our series A funding round! Posterous raised a total of $4.4M from Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and some amazing angels:

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We're thrilled to have two new Posterous themes from the guys at MetaLab. Just click "Theme and customize my site" on the Manage page to get access to "Fluid" and "Helvetica".

   

Click here to download:

Posterous_and_MetaLab_team_up_.zip (1090 KB)

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There's definitely been a lot of interest around integrating Posterous and Google Buzz. Right now, they don't have an API that would allow us to make Google Buzz a fully-featured autopost site, but here's a simple way to get posts from your RSS feed into Google Buzz today.

 My Google Profile 

Step 2: Add a link to your public Google profile page

Visit your Google Profile, then add a link to your Posterous page. Make sure that the page is designated as a profile page:

Step 3 (optional):  Force Google to recrawl your webpage

Use the Social Graph API tool to force Google to recrawl your page. This step is optional; if you choose not to do this, you'll have to wait until Google re-crawls your site.

Step 4: Add Posterous into Google Buzz

After this, your Posterous site will be available to as a "Connected Site" on Google Buzz:

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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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