The Official Posterous Posterous

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:

becomes:

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:

And get this!

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.

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.

We're happy to announce that we now support autoposts to Scribd. Anytime you send a document to us, we'll make sure that your Scribd account gets a copy. To set this up, just visit the Autopost page and click "Add New Service".

Click here to download:

announce.pdf (6 KB)

When you email multiple photos to Posterous, you automatically get our fast javascript gallery to flip through the photos.
 
But sometimes you don't want the gallery, you just want the photos to appear inline one after another. Put ((nogallery)) in the subject line and your images will appear without the gallery view!

We made it really easy to use Feedburner to get analytics about who's reading your feed. Just burn your Posterous RSS feed and add the new Feedburner feed address to your site and you're off.

Grab the address from Feedburner:

Then add it to your site settings:

The next time you go to your site the feed icon will link to your Feedburner feed! You can find more setup instruction in our help section.

Did you know you can use Posterous to take public submissions? Austin-based newspaper The Austin American-Statesman is using posterous to accept photos from their readers on how to beat the heat. Peldi, the famed creator of Balsamiq Mockups, uses Posterous to power Mockups to Go, a user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI elements.

We just added a much-needed new feature: Now you can one-click bulk delete all the unapproved posts on your site. Here's where you'll be able to find it, right off your Manage page.

Hat tip to @balsamiq for the feature request! Got one of your own? Email us.

The new Posterous iPhone app removes all the friction with posting photos and video online. PicPosterous is designed to be a replacement for the Camera app on your phone, posting photo sets and video to your Posterous site *live, as you take them*.

After taking your first photo at an event, create a new album and name it something, say "Glass blowing in SF". That post will be created online and the first photo you selected will be added. Now, throughout the day, continue taking photos or video. Each photo you take can be added to the album you created earlier, creating an image gallery on your site.

When you are done with that event and ready to go home, there's nothing more to do! Your photos and video are already online. And in typical Posterous style, you don't need an account to use the app, posts include location information with Google Maps, we'll autopost to your other services, and email your posts to your subscribers.
 
At Posterous, we believe in making posting easier. And PicPosterous is just another way to get photos and video on your site quickly. Instead of having to wait until the end of an event to post a set of images, let them post live as you take them.
 
PicPosterous is available in the iTunes App Store now. Click here to download it.

You can find more information about PicPosterous on our new PicPosterous help site.

We're proud to announce Posterous has been added as an official Send To Location in Google Reader.

Many thanks to the Google Reader team for the honor of being included in such fine company. And thanks to our users for being such great evangelists and telling all their friends about this new functionality.

So now you don't have to add a custom site, just click the button below and you're good to go.