New on Posterous: Audio and video *plays* on your iPhone in Safari, no flash needed

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July 6, 2009

New on Posterous: Audio and video plays on your iPhone in Safari, no flash needed

You already know that Posterous is *the best* way to post from your iPhone to the web. Whether you're taking photos, shooting video, or recording a voice memo, you can email it to us and we host it all.

Now, audio and video you attach and send to Posterous can be played on an iPhone in Mobile Safari. No more "missing flash" errors! (Just for the files we host, not those on other sites).

The new iPhone playable video files are also available via our API, so Twitter clients and other applications on the iPhone can play them. Email your favorite Twitter client and let them know!

We love the iPhone, and we're committed to making the Posterous + iPhone experience great.

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Posted by Sachin Agarwal

Comments (41)

Jul 06, 2009

Jay Farmington said...

this is excellent news!

Jul 06, 2009

Josh said...

This just gets better all the time. I don't know why everyone doesn't use it! @tweetie get integrated!

Jul 06, 2009

José Pablo Leandro Martín said...

I don't have an iPhone and i don't know if I ever going to get one but this is great news!

Congratulations!

Jul 06, 2009

Emmanuel Simon said...

great improvement on an already awesome product. keep up the good work guys.

Jul 06, 2009

Emmanuel Simon said...

is this only for newly uploaded videos, or has my back collection also been converted?

Jul 06, 2009

Sachin Agarwal said...

We went back and converted some of the older videos but not all of them. If you email me, sachin@posterous.com, i'll look into re-encoding all your old videos.

Jul 06, 2009

Tom Davis said...

You are guys are flat out going to frustrate everyone else into giving up, given the crazy proliferation of improvements. Hell, you make me want to give up and our business is in no way related to Posterous! ;)

Jul 06, 2009

Sachin Agarwal said...

@Tom we're working on an email based secondary ticket market now. You might as well just give up ;). haha jk

Jul 06, 2009

Patrick Au-Yeung said...

this is what a nimble, smart and hardworking team of individuals can do on a consistent basis. good shit.

Jul 06, 2009

anthony marco said...

Kicks ass as usual... this means fewer little puzzle pieces of frustration in my iPhone browsing experience.

Jul 06, 2009

Dr. Patrick MacNamara said...

AWESOME! Of course, I wouldn't expect anything less from an already stellar platform and your previous connection with Apple. Job well done!

Jul 06, 2009

Wesley de Souza said...

You are the best, no questions about it.

Jul 06, 2009

Patrick Ostertag said...

Posterous becomes really great! I'll receive my iPhone 3gs in 4-5 days. Will be happy to post video. I just use iTwitter today. Seems cool.

Jul 06, 2009

Bradley Farless said...

Am I the only one that noticed the typo in the picture ad?

"iPhone-PLAYBLE video..."

Jul 06, 2009

Bradley Farless said...

As for the feature itself, great move! Now I can check out Posterous from my iPhone too!

Jul 06, 2009

tommyl said...

I noticed Posterous video played on my iPhone a day or two ago. Didn't realize it was a new feature. Nice.

Jul 06, 2009

Janis Krums said...

This is great! I love what you have done up to now and am excited to see what you do in the future.

Jul 06, 2009

J.F. Ayel said...

Video without Flash... Bravo to posterous

Jul 06, 2009

Tsega Dinka said...

Holy Hell! You guys are on a roll. Thanks.

Jul 06, 2009

Thomas Chai said...

Wow...that is great

Jul 06, 2009

Kahlil Lechelt said...

So you guys are the first to free the iPhone from the Flash-curse? Great move! I love Posterous!

Jul 06, 2009

Kahlil Lechelt said...

How are you doing it?

Jul 06, 2009

Wesley de Souza said...

There are some guidelines to add multimedia content to iPhone, but mostly you need to link to an MP3, M4A or M4V properly encoded for this device, and the iPhone will launch the player when you click the link.

Jul 07, 2009

Kahlil Lechelt said...

But they say it plays in Safari right? So no extra player to launch... Is it HTML 5?

Jul 07, 2009

Wesley de Souza said...

No. The player is built in iPhone, it's like a windows media player embedded in a web page using the <embed> tag.

Jul 07, 2009

Phani Raj Kuchibhotla said...

play videos on iPhone with out flash! Posterous way to go!

Jul 07, 2009

Ola said...

Nice! I am thinking of geting the new iPhone (my first). Btw do you have a KPI of announcing one new feature a day:)

Jul 07, 2009

Marco F. said...

lol, I just blogged about it http://post.marcof.net/posterous-iphone-compatible-videos-posterous
Totally forgot to check the official blog :-)

Jul 07, 2009

Michael Fidler said...

You guys are just busting moves right and left. Congrats again!

Jul 07, 2009

Jose Paul Martin said...

Sachin, playble or playable? too much texting! haha

Jul 07, 2009

Albert Willis said...

Anything that shuts up the "we need Flash on the iPhone crowd" is fine by me.

Jul 07, 2009

ASECONDCHANCEAROUND said...

THIS IS REALLY COOL !

Jul 07, 2009

Ken Loh said...

awesome work as usual guys. Posterous FTW!

Jul 12, 2009

Jason Brown said...

Amazing! How long until you pull off the same for Android browser/phones?

Jul 12, 2009

Scott said...

cool guys.

Jul 12, 2009

Scott said...

Nice.

Jul 14, 2009

stickler said...

playble? wtf?! don't you mean 'playable'? learn to spell guys!

Jul 14, 2009

Bradley Farless said...

Actually, I mentioned that in a previous comment quite a few days ago. Guess they didn't notice, or don't care.

Jul 14, 2009

Garry Tan said...

We will fix it. Chill guys, it's not like we are running out of things to do.

Jul 14, 2009

Sachin Agarwal said...

exactly what Garry said, congrats on finding a typo, and chillax a little. it's better than a typo in our source code :)

Jul 14, 2009

Bradley Farless said...

Well, that's certainly true. By the way, I'm able to access Posterous sites again. Not sure if it was a problem with my laptop or if the issue resolved itself...

My bad for being a nitpicker. Your stuff is great guys.

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