The Official Posterous Posterous

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I helped a friend last week set up a posterous on the private setting for her and her family to use to keep in contact when she's overseas. On the private setting she gives the password to her family and they can share diary entries, photos, videos - also very useful to keep in mind.

Indeed why would you use anything else? That is why I am here, so spread the word!

That branded Twitpic functionality idea is brilliant!

This should definitely be a part of every corporate twitter strategy. Great idea.

it does work well this way but would be nice if would link back to our own blog rather than to the posterous one

I love Posterous.

The only reason i continue using Twitpic sometimes is because those pictures are often poor-quality or mundane, so i'd rather leave them where they are now instead of syncing it with Posterous (which i like to be a bit more formal/professional-looking).

PS. Why can't text be justified here?

We strip html in comments since people don't typically want other people's formatting on their own blog. =)

sorry, i meant for blog posts. there's left, center, right, but no justified.

I finally decide to use Posterous as my primary media hosting now. And, I'm afraid I will leave my blog not updated for this.. :D

Sometime, we don't only have photos/images to share. And, the autopost feature is superb! Thank you for the super service, Posterous!

Where is the 'Public' feature suggestion sticky thread?
Do we just wait for features or is there a public forum like 'get satisfaction' where we (users) can make suggestions and discuss issues in a non-expanding thread?

Currently, I would have to dig below to find a relevant topic that once mentioned suggestions, and comment and hope anyone replied... from which I would get an email alert and have to come back to that thread.. it is very buried and non alerting in anyway.

In a way, this is a suggestion.
At a minimum, you should be able to visit your posterous and see new messages.

While posterous is excellent for micro-blogging it is currently not well suited for maintaining a linear discussion.

Great innovation. All praises to the mind behind this.

why use anything else? maybe because I have control over the ads run and a ton of bandwidth already? and why not put my shit out there everywhere i can ?

This application has pros and cons. But I wanna think of the pros most of the time than the cons.

I second office furniture news: "it does work well this way but would be nice if would link back to our own blog rather than to the posterous one".

Please include that, so I can use posterous to add to twitter as well.

Posterous is an interesting idea but I'm not liking the 2gb limit. 2gb may seem more than enough when it comes to posting some pictures and videos here and there but I don't want to ever "feel" limited when it comes to a service. It's no different then what comcast does for bandwith caps. Unlimited sounds great but 250gb a month sounds limiting even though I never use that much. I don't want to ever pay for premium social networking features and I'll probably reconsider posterous if the hard cap is ever lifted.

Dee, we hope to always give our users as much space as they need, but being a new startup, "unlimited" is not an option for us.

You don't want to pay for social networking? Why do you feel it should be free for you? It costs us real dollars to provide Posterous as a service.

Dear Posterous,

What you think about adding a "cut" functionality? We need it, really :)

Cheers,
http://www.sigizmund.com

Twitter is unfortunately a little too minimalistic for my liking. It is still an alright site to use in conjunction with blogging sites such as Posterous though.

This is less about how I feel as an individual and more about how I believe people perceive social networking sites. Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, and to a lesser degree tumblr all took off because it was free to engage in so word of mouth spread and they kept growing (although twitter, youtube and I believe tumblr aren't making much money now but still). I do honestly think Posterous has a huge potential to explode with an increased userbase like twitter and tumblr as long as the costs are reasonable.

I think the main audience for posterous right now are the ones that use Tumblr to share their discoveries and atm they don't charge any money. I am aware that they have 1 song per day upload limit but I would rather live with that and have the "free unlimited" mentality and not ever have to worry/think about about an upload limit (for now) even though I probably wouldn't even reach a single gig in a year.

it would be great though if when using Posterous to replace twitpic, that the hashtags that are tweeted alongside the pics turn into posterous tags, would save so much time

The current drawback of using Posterous as a Twitpic et al replacement is, that the default Posterous pages are not very mobile friendly. In a way, that if the usual Posterous detail page contains images, it takes a lot of time to render on my mobile phones (tested using iPhone 3G and Nokia E71).
Maybe you can take that into consideration for future releases.
Thanks & Cheers

Benjamin