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July 2, 2009

Posterous supports YouTube HD embeds. Also new: Auto-expansion of screencast.com and thedailyshow.com videos


YouTube has announced HD embeds, which is great because HD is so breathtakingly good. We just added support for these HD embeds and detect if it's possible. So now if you have an HD video, just paste the URL into email or a post editor page, or use our bookmarklet, and we'll auto-expand to the HD embed, and you don't even have to lift a finger (or check a checkbox, as it were).

    

What's more, we just added auto-embed functionality for the fine screenshot / screencast hosting site, screencast.com, and the much-loved Daily Show online video site. Paste a URL, and go to town, we'll drop in the embed.

Got a site that doesn't work yet for you? Fire us an email or leave a comment below, and we'll get to it as soon as we can.

Posted by Garry Tan 

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June 25, 2009

New on Posterous - Post to Picasa, YouTube, Vimeo, FriendFeed, and others!


It's been an exciting week here at Posterous and we're keeping things going by announcing a slate of new Autopost sites for photos, videos, status updates, and more:

Photos and Videos:
 - Picasa
 - YouTube
 - Vimeo

Picasa photos will be saved in your "Posterous Photos" album. Any videos you attach will be automatically uploaded to your YouTube and Vimeo for processing.

Microblogging Sites:
 - Identi.ca
 - Jaiku
 - Plurk

Keeps your status updated automatically with the title of your post and a short URL link.

Bookmarks:
 - FriendFeed
 - Delicious

Automatically keep your friends updated on FriendFeed with your new posts and photos. On Delicious, each new post will be added to your bookmarks along with any tags you've made.

These new autopost sites make it super easy to share the photos and videos you take from your phone or camera with your friends, taking the hassle out of uploading to each site you're on. This isn't the last of the autopost sites either -- we're going to continue adding sites, so if there's a site you want please send us an email at help@posterous.com. 

PS - I'm Vince, the newest member of the Posterous team along with Brett. I helped develop some of the features you've already seen like the Facebook app and Twitter comments and I'm psyched to keep developing some more as a new addition to the team!

Posted by Vincent Chu 

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June 25, 2009

Posterous is the website of the week on Tech Now TV, seen on NBC stations

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"Website of the week is the super cool Posterous, which lets you send an email that updates your Twitter, Facebook and blog all at once. Sweet!"
 
Subscribe to the Tech Now TV podcast on iTunes here.

Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

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June 24, 2009

Posterous has acquired Slinkset

We're psyched to announce that we've closed an acquisition of slinkset.com, the easiest way to create your own social news site like Digg or Reddit. Slinkset will remain online, and we'll be working on some crazy awesome stuff to bring the power of slinkset's technology and community to your Posterous experience.

We'd also like to introduce the newest member of the Posterous team, Slinkset founder Brett Gibson. Go say hey, subscribe to his posterous, and stay tuned for more epic Posterous functionality created faster than ever.

Posted by Garry Tan 

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June 23, 2009

Posterous is the best way to publish video and photos from your new iPhone 3G S

Posterous has always been about email, so when Apple announced the iPhone 3G S would shoot video, we already knew it would just work with our site! We've optimized Posterous to work well with the iPhone 3.0, so now it's better than ever.



• Shoot video with your iPhone 3G S. Click "Share" to email the video directly from your phone to post@posterous.com. We'll rotate the video correctly and host it on your site. Video on the web has never been easier

• Use the Voice Memos application included in iPhone 3.0 to record audio. Again, simply click "Share" to email it to your Posterous site. We'll convert the audio to an mp3 and host it inside a slick mp3 player

• The camera in iPhone 3.0 is faster than ever. Shoot photos quickly. Then from your library select multiple photos and click "Share" to email them to Posterous. We'll turn the photos into a great image gallery.

• We always provide the original files on your site for download as well, so your readers can click to see the beautiful full size images from the new iPhone camera.

• Since we're based on email and not a dedicated app, you can email content from your iPhone *even when you have no network connection*. The iPhone will queue the email to be sent once network is available. A dedicated app simply doesn't work when you enter that 3G dead zone.

And as always, we'll update your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and other blogs with all the media you email to us. We're the universal way to publish from your iPhone to all the sites you use, no app needed!

Got a 3G S? Try it out. Send us some video!
Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

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June 22, 2009

Posterous now imports your old blog, including images

Do you have an old blog collecting dust? Something you started years ago, but never kept up with because it's just too hard?
 
In just a few clicks, import all your old posts *and media* into Posterous, and be done with that old crufty site for good.

Just go to our new Import Page and enter your blog credentials. We'll go out and grab it all, and create a new Posterous site with just those posts. You can then merge them all into an existing Posterous site, or bring posts in one by one.
 
If something doesn't import just right, don't hesitate to email us at help@posterous.com. Be sure to include the url to your old site and we'll take a look right away.

Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

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June 18, 2009

Posterous Quick Tip! Paste a URL to an image and get it on your blog.

Here's a new little feature we just added, by popular demand. You can enter an image URL on its own line anywhere in a post, and we'll expand the image. What's new? Now we automatically download/host it too.

To do this in your web browser, just right click the image and choose "Copy Image Location". Then paste it into your email or new post editor window.



So this... http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/funny-pictures-cats-eat-a-watermelon.jpg

Becomes this...



The same magic also happens when you use the Posterous bookmarklet. It's a special bookmark that lets you grab things from pages, and images get pulled down so you don't have to worry about hotlinking, which is frowned upon in the blogging world.

If you're wondering if you can paste a whole bunch of urls in a row-- you can. Just make sure each is on its own line, and we'll do the rest.

Sharing images from the web on your posterous just got easier. Questions? Fire us a line at help@posterous.com.

Posted by Garry Tan 

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May 26, 2009

Posterous image posting is now available in the top twitter clients!



We're proud to announce broad support of the Posterous API for image posting through the most awesome twitter clients out there. In addition to posting, many of these clients have added inline viewing of Posterous photos and media, and even voice upload (Pichirp) via iPhone!

To enable Posterous as your image host, you'll need to go into the settings for the twitter client and set Posterous as your image posting service.



Is your favorite client not here?
Posterous now supports a rich API that is also 100% compatible with TwitPic. We've added extensions that let you post music, video and files of any kind (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) so you can do even more with Posterous than any other hosting service / blog platform. Send feedback to your favorite clients telling them about our API, and let us know too.

Posted by Garry Tan 

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May 5, 2009

Posterous group blogs are now email lists too. Get instant email notifications for new posts

Posterous is now the easiest way to create an email list for your family or group. Creating a group blog is easy, just enter the email addresses of your friends and family intro the contributors section of Site Settings. Those contributors don't even need to create accounts in order to post or comment.
 
When any contributor posts to the site, we'll send that entire post, including all the images, to the contributors. They can then reply to that email to add a comment to the post. And as before, those comments get emailed to all contributors.

Want to send something out to your group but not have it published to your public site? Easy. Just email private@sitename.posterous.com. We'll still send it out the contributors, but it will remain private.
 
Dead simple email lists for your group or family. Create one today!

Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

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April 17, 2009

Posterous API: We're a direct replacement for TwitPic

The Posterous API is a direct replacement for the TwitPic API used in desktop twitter clients and iPhone applications. It lets you upload photos to your Posterous site using just Twitter credentials.


Except it's better. We allow you to upload multiple photos and you get an image gallery. We offer the full size download of the image, or a zip file of multiple images. It posts to *your* Posterous site, which may have a custom domain and Google Analytics. And we autopost not just to Twitter, but also Facebook, Flickr, and many blogs. Oh, and TwitPic is down all the time. That's no fun.

Michael Arrington, Guy Kawasaki, and Rainn Wilson all use Posterous in place of Twitpic. They email photos to Posterous, and we update their Twitter and Facebook accounts. We're extending this to the desktop and iPhone apps with this API.

Coming soon: support for audio, video, and other files. We can handle it all.

If you use a Twitter client that has TwitPic support, email them and let them know they can add Posterous support today! We use all the same methods, responses and errors, so integration should be a breeze.

API documentation can be found here.

See the release on Techcrunch here.
Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

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