The Official Posterous Posterous

Cool!

thats super useful

This would have been a perfect place to inject a picture of Xzibit with the caption "Yo dawg I heard you like blogging so we put a blog in your blog so you can blog while you blog."

that's (again) vewwy cool. But of course I use my posterous as my main blog... does it work recursively? :-)

ohhh mr garry tan i love this widget

Yes! I've been waiting for something like this :)

You guys are awesome!!

Pretty nice, but you guys really need to have your OWN widget out, FREE with Posterous. You control the branding, tracking, etc. etc.

@Alex make sense, but so much to do, so little time. Widgetbox is awesome. we love those guys

Widget looks nice, but I don't like how it opens with a Widgetbox bar across the top.  My posterous looks better without that :-)

Could someone tell me where to find the widget on Widgetbox ? If i do a search on "Posterous", I get several answers back. Which one is the good one ?
Thanks!

there doesn't appear to be any code or customize instructions after the colon on the 'ways to share' page. is something missing or have i missed something?

If you click the "Customize and get the embed code for this widget »"
button you should be brought to widgetbox.com to customize and get the
code. Let us know if it's broken for you -- help@posterous.com

Thanks Garry - it seems that if I'm logged out I can see the link and image, but then the page instructs me to log in to get it personalised. When I do this it disappears: Mac 10.5.6, Safari and Firefox

LOVE my posterous, but as I autopost and explore the options elsewhere, I have blog envy for the blog roll links, widgets to add your email to subscribe, etc... I was able to add some widgets, others don't work - for ex, I added the Friendfeed widget using the html code in my profile w/o a problem, but the feedburner one did not work out. So I figured I would just ask and see if anyone else has figured out a way to hack some additional functionality into their posterous.
- how can I add blogroll links?
- how can I add widgets? feedburner, delicious, etc...

Liza, we are working on theming and customization now. Once that's available, you'll be able to customize your entire site, including add things like other widgets

Thanks, Sachin. I love the clean interface, but I look forward to some options. LMK if you need a guinea pig.

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Cool... A new way to share your Posterous on your other blogs and sites: The Posterous Blog Widget

Thanks a lot, I like it

I like Posterous a lot. But I sure don't need a slightly expanded twitter in addition to my blog. If I can't say it fast, it's a blog post. As Posterous becomes more customizable, my needs will be met, I'm sure.

I love posterous but I think it's too limited at this point. For my purpose of answering fitness questions via email it is PERFECT but I don't think the viewers can get enough benefit out of it.

by the way, widget box sucks something fierce

It's a song and dance to get at the embedded text and after all that, I find out that LJ doesn't handle Javascript/Flash.

Cheers (not) :(

Ok, so I created the Widget through Widgetbox, signed up for the service only to find out Posterous doesn''t even support it? Sucks. I want my money back.

This is NOT the embed solution you want. Widgetbox, as others have noted, sucks the wax tadpole and trashes the sidebar up with it';s own begging crapola.

Please check out the choice's you have to embed Twitter (I'm sure you know how to find that page) or even Tumblr's simple but customizable Java script.

Whomever was assigned to solve the Posterous problem went at it like a summer intern.

C'mon, it's not that hard. This approach just wastes everyone's time.

Gerard, please feel free to write your own solution and let us know when it's available. We'll be happy to provide a link to it from our help pages.

It's easy to complain about something, harder to execute.

Really? Are you sending me an employment contract or a slice of your paycheck? I wish I could figure out how to get someone to do my job for free.

Wait, let me be a bit more helpful rather than merely dismissive of the young entrepreneur in search of the next Google buyout moment.

What you have is, in many ways, superior to Tumblr in how it is executed and displayed. At the same time it lags behind Tumblr (or seems to) in terms of adoption and rate of adoption.

It is a more mature tool than Tumblr and it attracts a more thoughtful audience. That's both a strength, in terms of staying power, and a weakness since Tumblr relies on a demographic that is heavily skewed to bubble-gum popping adolescents and they don't really buy anything. What Tumblr content is able to sell is, at most, T-Shirts. Tumblr's default to the dashboard (and the chaos of followers feeds) is a serious error from which they can't extricate themselves.

Posterous has at least the potential for an ad play across a much broader demographic. It also has the potential to bootstrap the casual user into a more serious user.

At the same time Posterous doesn't have enough tools to help it proliferate. One area I'd be concentrating on is a vast assortment of embeds that make it work in a lot of environments and with a great deal of ease. Another area is on themes that are not only different but ad-ready. Tumblrs got a lot of themes but most are useless and noisy.... they're "artsy". Themes that are stylish, lucid, and can be expanded to a more flexible system with serious plugins or add-ons would trump the Tumblr trash.

However, you can't really count on a great deal of outside developments a la Twitter since your userbase is not that massive. Nor is, I imagine, your funding.

Get Sun Tzu about this stuff. Don't be strong where your competition is strong, be strong where it is weak.

What you can do is to provide a wide palette of possible tools to accomplish this at great ease and with great big pointers.

The "share" concept is well filled out but I sense that the "share" meme is about used up. Only so many places one can "share" before one is all shared out.

I'd be looking at proliferation templates and tools as well as ad ready templates. Not that a lot of folks would use them, but those that do might pass along the meme to others.

In general it's better to have one user seeing Posterous as the core of their online life than ten that just "share".

So far you've covered:

First timers
Casual bloggers
Social media pros (???)
Families and groups

You might want to start reaching out to ProBloggers and those in need of a simple yet powerful HUB.

You can't go Twitter and Tumblr's making a lot of simple-minded mistakes (Tumblarity first among them, marketing to kids second).... hence you've got to go where they ain't. You've got to find a less crowded proliferation vector.

Short form. Don't just point to Widgetbox and say it solves one of your core problems.It doesn't. Core problems are the ones you have to solve.

Gerard, thanks for your input. At the moment, we don't feel this is one of our "core problems." It's definitely something we want to work on and improve upon, but we have many other things that are higher priority at the moment.

I feel that is pretty much one of your core problems because I (and many other users with established domains) would like to display dynamic content on my homepage.

My hosting service doesn't support php (go figure!) but I found a satisfactory solution with FeedWind for now. While it could do a lot to improve, it's a damn side better than that WidgetBox monstrosity.

Good enough for now but I would love to have the same clean view in my website as in the posterous tab on my facebook page which pretty much looks just like posterous.

WidgetBox = StinkBox
Posterous = Awesome
PosterousWithJSEmbedThemeSupport = Awesomer
EmbedFullCSSablePosterousPostsToMyPage = Awesomest

I would pay for that. (Or linking me to a how-to works, too!)

Just move my account to the server that Guy is on. :) I like his site's flexibility.