An update to our iPhone app is now available in the App Store and features one of your most requested features: tags!

Tag your posts
Tags make it easy for readers of your Space to find posts that interest them. We sync your tags so any tags you've added through the Web are available for easy access on the iPhone app.

Tweet public posts
Easily tweet any public post! (Note: This feature only works using iOS 5)

Bug fixes and performance enhancements
We've squashed several bugs and improved the performance of media uploads. 

In case you missed it from our previous update:

Offline drafts
Compose your post over the course of an hour, a day, or even a week. Just tap "Back" -> "Save to device" while posting. When you're ready, continue your post where you left off.

Follow all 
We've added a 'Follow All' button in friend finder to make it even easier to stay up to date with all your friends on Posterous Spaces.

What are our users saying about our 4 star rated app?

"The latest release is awesome. The app is now super fast even on slow connections and is super stable. And the multiple picture and video upload is simply awesome."

"Fast, easy and versatile tool for sharing your thoughts, posting pictures and videos, and segregating content with as many or as few people as you can think of."

Download the Posterous Spaces app now:

Looking for Posterous Spaces for Android? Visit the Android Market

Do you have a Posterous Space that you update frequently with the iPhone app? Share it in the comments!

In the spirit of making New Year's Resolutions, this week's Spotlight is on Hannah Keys, author of the blog Stop Being Crap. Hannah shares humorous insights like 'Stop Celeb-Obsessing' and 'Stop Impulse Spending' in an attempt to get her readers to take a hard look in the mirror themselves and ask, "How can I better myself today?" Hannah's blog acts as her own mirror, letting the world take a part in her own journey of self-improvement.

Can you tell us a little about yourself?

I'm a 25 year-old that's slightly obsessed with self-improvement. I also happen to be a New Zealander - we're so laid back we're practically horizontal - so I'm cutting against the grain somewhat. I'm attempting to live my life with some serious accountability while poking fun at myself along the way.

Check out these other Posterous Spaces examples: 

Peter Belanger - A behind the scenes look at a photo studio based in San Francisco, CA.

Brand Zero - Craft, design, and production.

You Kickstarted Me - A photo project profiling successful Kickstarters projects and the people behind them.

Want to be featured? Submit your Posterous Space to our inspiration center!

To provide a glimpse of Americans’ social media resolutions in 2012, Posterous commissioned a study with Harris Interactive and published the findings at 2012socialmediaresolutions.com

When it comes to social media, we’ve all developed some bad habits.  So, with the help of True Blood star and Posterous geek Janina Gavankar, we ask you, "What's your New Year's social media resolution?"

To warm you up to the idea of sharing, we have several Kindle Fires to give away! 

Choose one way to participate:

1. Tweet what your social media resolution is from 2012socialmediaresolutions.com. Make sure your tweet has the hashtag #SocialMediaResolution. The more you tweet, the more chances you have to win!

2. Submit a short video clip announcing what your social media resolution is to smnyr@posterous.com or by filling out this form.

3. Leave a comment on this blog post with your resolution.

The contest ends January 31st.

Here's a glimpse at what others are sharing: 

my SMNYR is to take more pictures of people & less of food #peoplespotting vs. #foodspotting :) 2012socialmediaresolutions.com #SocialMediaResolution

— Brian Frank (@b_frank) January 4, 2012

Streamline my social media networks & Spend more time with my blogs.2012socialmediaresolutions.com #SocialMediaResolution

— Tina Bright (@mistybright) January 5, 2012

i resolve to clean up my followers and block spammers more often! #socialmediaresolution 2012socialmediaresolutions.com #SocialMediaResolution

— Stephanie(@scg003twitparty) January 5, 2012

Let's get the New Year started the right way!

Robert-Paul Jansen is a photographer based in the south of the Netherlands. He captures the world around him to share in his aptly titeld photoblog, things I see. Interestingly, all his post-processing of his images is done on his iPhone and sent from the Posterous Spaces iPhone app.

What kind of photography are you interested in?

I love looking at photography in general, but I prefer landscapes and street photography. Photography is a tool to capture the world. You create history.  

That’s what I love about it. I also love looking at old photographs and see what living in those times was like. Not only the subjects and surroundings on the photos are different, also the material and look of the photographs themselves change over time.

What's in your photography toolkit? 

I use two cameras, the Nikon d5100 and the iPhone 4. Mostly I go out with both of them and decide which one to use for a specific shot. Sometimes I use both and make the decision at home, while processing.

I also have a @ and us ‘the Glif’ to be able to use my iPhone on it to shoot panoramas, hdr photos or film. 

All my photos are processed on my iPhone. With the new iPhone 4s it’s more and more possible to process my 16MB photos from the d5100 on it. 

Why did you choose Posterous as your platform of choice?

I have tried Posterous and tumblr since I started using the iPhone to take and share photos. I made the decision to stick with Posterous exclusively in the beginning of this year. Why? It just worked. One of the things I like about Posterous is the autopost feature. It just saves me a lot of time.

All my posts (photos) are shared automatically on twitter and facebook. And I’m thinking of adding flickr and Picasa to the autopost as well. The photos on Facebook are put directly on my timeline as if I have uploaded it directly to Facebook while other services put very tiny thumbnail in the timeline . With Posterous autopost you get a nice looking photo. Autosharing on twitter adds the tagging which I love as well. 

What are some of your favorite shots?

Its really hard to pick my favorites. Each and every photo has a story behind it. But to show three:

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Check out these other Posterous Spaces examples: 

Gym Hero Blog - Gym Hero is an iPhone app to track and document your workout routines and fitness.

The Oregonian - Photos and thoughts from The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon.

Perpetual Sandwich! - (a chronicle of sorts)

Submit your Posterous Space to our inspiration center!

Who would have guessed the impact of 140 characters?  Whether a Tweet contains breaking news, a marriage proposal, or a hilarious insight, Twitter has become part of our daily conversation.

That’s why we’re psyched to announce a new way to easily embed a Tweet to your posts and help you expand the story beyond 140 characters.

Example:

Now on Posterous Spaces: Embeddable Tweets post.ly/4BqnN

— posterous (@posterous) December 8, 2011

Thanks to our friends at Twitter, your Tweets are rendered beautifully with photographs, videos and conversations and all links, @mentions and #hashtags remaining interactive to engage with your audience.

And because we are always looking for ways to simplify your sharing, it takes just seconds to embed a Tweet on your Posterous Space.  Here’s how:

From the Web Editor: Paste the Tweet url into the Web Editor as a pull quote, add your own views and publish.  

From any browser: Select the Tweet or short Twitter conversation you want to embed by clicking on the timestamp and then on the Posterous Spaces bookmarklet button on your browser toolbar. Add your own witty comments, a picture for context and post away.

Email it in: Copy and paste the Tweet url into the body of your email.  Craft your story around it and hit send.  We’ll embed the Tweet automatically in your post.

From our iPhone or Android apps: Copy using the Link to Tweet feature, paste it into the compose window and you are all set.

Having problems finding the URL for your tweet?  Read these instructions.

Need a visual?  Watch a quick screencast below.

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You asked and we listened. We've just released another improvement to help you manage your Spaces: a new Posterous Bar. 

The new Posterous Bar is less conspicuous, more functional in helping you get the most common tasks done, and looks great across all themes. 

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If you're logged in, depending on your membership to the Space, you can can Post, Manage, Follow, or jump directly to your Reader. Visitors of your Space can now easily follow you.

There's no need to do anything if you're using one of our standard themes as the new Posterous Bar will replace the current one. If you have a customized theme, check out this help article to set up the new Posterous Bar.

Let us know what you think!

Earlier today, we released the first annual report on the State of Private Sharing. The results illustrate what you've told us all year: You want more control over who sees what you share and an easy way enabling everyone to participate.

And we're just getting started - many of you have noticed the performance improvements that rolled out this week, and we have several other features planned that will make sharing with the people you care about easier than ever before.

In related news, we're thrilled to announce that Brian Frank has joined Posterous as our Chief Product Officer.  Brian's accomplishments in product definition and design across web and mobile services are numerous, and we couldn't be more pleased to have him on board. You can read more from Brian on his own Posterous Space, http://www.brianfrank.com.

Survey Details:

We commissioned a survey of 2,014 U.S. social networking users aged 18 and over in October, 2011. This means that we paid Harris Interactive to field the survey for us.  They have asked us to include this disclaimer below.

Data for this survey were collected by Harris Interactive Service Bureau ("HISB") on behalf of Posterous Inc. HISB was responsible for the data collected and Posterous was responsible for the survey design and data analysis.

This week's Spotlight is on Gibrian Foltz, an artist sharing his latest pieces of art in his Space titled 'Roam.' 

Check out these other Posterous Spaces examples: 

We're pleased to announce two new themes available in the theme gallery: the Actor theme and Blackbelt theme.

Actor
Janina Gavankar, an actress on HBO's hit series TrueBlood, designed the Actor Theme letting anyone be a sharing star. 

Janina believes that actors and everyone else should easily be able to professionally represent themselves and their work online. What better way to share than with Posterous Spaces? You can read more about Janina's take on social media in a recent Forbes interview.

For tips on installing and customizing the Actor theme, click here.

Blackbelt Theme
The Blackbelt theme has a very clean design geared towards presenting your content center stage. This theme is ideal for media rich Spaces such as photo blogs and portfolios.

Stay tuned to our How Do I... Space for more quick tips, tricks, and tutorials on customizing and making the most out of your Space.

Using either of these two themes for your public Space already? Share the link in the comments!

Since the introduction of Spaces, users questioned whether or not we would continue supporting bloggers and blogging in general. Rest assured that your Space can still be used as a blog and we intend to stay true to being the the easiest way to share publicly or privately!

Just in time for the Blogworld Expo in Los Angeles we are happy to announce two new tools that will help our strong community of bloggers: Zemanta and Blogsy.

Blog Smarter with Zemanta, your personal blogging assistant. 
Zemanta is a tool that helps you enrich your posts with relevant photos, information, and links in real time. Simply start typing and Zemanta will assist you with content recommendations right from within the Posterous post editor.

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To install Zemanta: 

1. Go to zemanta.com/download.
2. Download the browser extension for the browser of your choice.
3. Click on the extension while in the post editor to see content recommendations!

You can learn more about Zemanta here.

iPad blogging app Blogsy now supports Posterous Spaces.
Features include a WYSIWYG editor with drag and drop images from Flickr, Picasa, Google Image Search, and the built-in web browser. You can find it in the Apple App Store.

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If you want to learn more about how to use Blogsy you can check out their demo videos.

We have 10 Blogsy promo codes to give out - simply retweet this post for a chance to win! We will notify the winners on Friday, November 11.

Visit us at Blogworld Expo Los Angeles 2011!
Attending the Blogworld Expo in LA this coming November 3-5? Come say hello at our booth and grab a free Posterous t-shirt and tote bag!