The Official Posterous Posterous

Sweet! I have really been looking forward to this.

Sachin & team - you created such a catchy, fun way to post, even & especially for non-geeks like me

And the kicks just keep coming. Why use anything else?

It's not the easiest thing to explain, but well worth taking a second to read the poster. Nice job guys.

Hows does this work when you have multiple sites?

#xxx@othersite.posterous.com ?

@Evan you got it -- you can change both sides of the @ sign to suit what you want to do.

cool thing!!! i didnt tried, but i will in the future! Thanks a lot!

thats a very nice thing. I was thinking on re-introducing wordpress on my site again. this would help.

btw, with this it is still not possible to have a {posterous_name} in posts to twitter etc, right? (I mailed this and Sachin answered it would be on your list of soon to push features).
I asked for this feature because if you have multiple posterous' they all get pushed to twitter, but you cannot immediately see which posterous is pushed from the twitter post.

great feature guys, again, you keep pushing smart stuff!

Hi Marco. Yes that's still on our list to do. Thanks.

Sachin, fyi, it works now :)

Great stuff, thank you.

Are you planning on supporting also Wordpress tags, in addition to categories?

I am really liking the platform you all are building for blogging and "lifestreaming". The email interface is fantastic and this new feature just adds to the usability. Thanks for a great product and keep it up.

Thank You! Had to Twitter this!

does blog@yoursite.posterous.com still work?

@arya: Absolutely. The left site of the @ dictates where we autopost to. 'blog' and other site types still work, as well as the new '#url' notation. On the right side, you select which posterous site to go to.

dude, you're a genius and this is a great feature.

but. it would be really awesome if it was easier to explore posterous. like if you took that explore link waaaaaaay down at the bottom and moved it up to the top. pretty please?

OK, you just blew my mind.

If this does what I think it does, you have just created the most powerful offline blogging tool out there!

So am I reading this right that I can now auto-post to both a Blogger blog AND a Wordpress blog as well as a Twitter page at the same time? (Not just two Wordpress blogs)

Yep! Every combination is possible! Just one of your services (posterous AT posterous), all of your services (post AT posterous), or a custom subset (flickr+twitter AT posterous)

Pretty sweet! I've even setup an entire second blog, which posts to a whole new set of autoposts.

Quick question, when there are multiple blogs for my account, does post AT posterous go to all of them?

Evan, yup -- post@ always go to all your posterous autopost destinations.

This latest set of enhancements is truly amazing. This is making the maintenance of multiple sites be a breeze. I'm now able to do just about anything I want from on the road and email.

I am really hoping that templating, with at least the functionality of tumblr, is in the future.

This is GREAT stuff, keep it up.

Garry, does it go to my other posterous blogs? are they considered autopost destinations? aka post@xxxx.posterous.com?

@Evan. post@posterous.com *will not* go to all your posterous sites. It will only go to your default posterous site, and all your external autopost sites.

glad to know this, just what I need

Sachin,

>post@posterous.com *will not* go to all your posterous sites. It will only go to your default posterous site, and all your external autopost sites.

Something might still not working well for me.
When I post to post@posterous.com, yes it goes to my default posterous site as well as my designated website, kenloo.com/blog/leaves.

I have set for another posterous site (kopitiam.posterous.com) and designate to repost to kenloo.com. But when I mail to
post@kopitiam.posterous.com, it autoposts to kenloo.com, and kenloo.com/blog/leaves, which wasn't intended to be initially. Any idea?

@Eric autopost sites are per user, not per site. No matter which posterous site you post to, we'll autopost to all your external sites. email me or help@ and we'll sort it out for you. Thanks

I was just now able to send an email with # in the email from gmail with no problem. If you are having trouble, shoot us an email.

Hi, I think this is a great new feature and just in time as I create a new blog. You guys must love getting such good feedback everyday. And we'll keep it coming as long as the product continues to evolve so well.

Question:

You're instructions said:
Send an email to #url@posterous.com. If the part after the '#' appears anywhere in your site url, we will autopost there.

After that you mention some wordpress.com urls that have a user name. I have 2 hosted blogs on wp that I'd like to post to. Let's say they are abc.com and xyz.com. If I want to post to the second via posterous, would I include the .com part? Would it be -

#xyz.com@posterous.com and to send to both:

#abc.com+xyz.com@posterous.com?

I get the instructions about the wordpress.com sites and using the user name. But it might be worth giving an example of a hosted site url since it feels odd to put a .com before an @ sign if in fact I'm understanding the #url@posterous.com correctly.

I just want to make sure that if it's a hosted site of any type, the above is what I would do.

Thanks so much.

J

Hi, just a quick note of clarification. You mention that adding tags to posts will synch with your wordpress categories. When you click on the link that's in this instruction:

Click here to see how to tag posts by email.
http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-launches-easy-post-t

it talks all about tagging but doesn't mention that it synchs with wordpress categories again.

Also, a note of clarification. I thought the tags did get pushed to flickr but then I just read on one of the comments that they don't yet and that you're working on it. Is this the case?

Thanks,

J

Thanks Chris. This is really helpful!

It would be very helpful if the "posting to" had a setting for how often you would want to post in there - this way one could use posterous to do a 'daily posting on blog' instead of having a lot of postings. (reason I am asking is that I would like to handle a bilingual bookmarking for several final sites from one instance of a browser. ;)

Terrific service! Couple of problems to work out but if i get it working I'll recommend it to everyone. I cant pass category information to wordpress. the tags show up here but get passed on even though I've set up tags AND categories with the right names over on my WP blog.

Would love to have these autopost controls ported to the bookmarklet as well. Ideally, by a setup page to personalize dynamically-generated bookmarklets.

Anyway, love posterous so far -- just waiting for a few crucial features, to make it my exclusive mode of sharing/blogging.. Keep up the great work!

Very cool.

How does this work with Facebook where the URL doesn't have a name, but an ID? For example, i use accounts with my last name "graham" for family to view, and "acheekymonkey" for general internet to view. This way #graham@posterous.com would go to the right place for family, but Facebook seems to blow this all apart with it's ID instead of personalized URL.

Any suggestions how to incorporate Facebook (Or any other site) which uses IDs instead of good old letters?

Thank you,
John

Awesome site by the way.

The tags doesn't seem to work for me. The tags do get passed on to the posterous post but when it posts to wordpress the tags don't show. Admittedly, this might be due to the fact that I am also running simpletags plugin — though it'd be great if there was a solution to this.

@Colin i do see that the tags got added to your WP site. maybe you added these manually after the posting?

Either way, please email help@posterous.com and we'll check it out. thanks

Yeah I added those manually afterwards. I'll do another post to test that I did it right and then shoot you an email.

+1 on great feature. Also +1 on the request to support this in the bookmarklet. Lacking any originality or wit ;-), I mostly tend to echo (others would call it "steal" ;-)) the thoughts and reports of others, and for that the bookmarklet is the best interface.

Another more esoteric feature to add to the backburner: an exclusion mechanism. #!facebook@posterous.com, so I can have my post auto-posted everywhere but Facebook!

I just want to know one thing that when i post to my WP blog using #mysite@posterous.com it posts the blog on both my posterous and WP blogs. Questions is how can i skip posterous post? Or which one will be indexed by Google as both posts have the same content?

Junal, I also responded to your email to help@. You cannot skip the Posterous post. Regardless of which email address you send to, we *always* create a post on Posterous. if you have more questions, please email help@posterous.com. thanks

Great! But... i'm waiting to wordpres category support :)

Ups sorry, there is already the category support! great :)