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Send to Posterous directly from Google Reader

Update: We've been added as an official site, so now it's even easier! You don't have to do the stuff below anymore.

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We're big fans of Google Reader. It's one of the easiest ways to view everyone's stuff fast. Yesterday, Google Reader added a new Send To feature that lets you post to your favorite places right from Google Reader while you're looking at stuff.

By popular demand, now you can use this new Send To feature with Posterous. Go to Settings > Send To in Google Reader and under "Don't see your favorite site?" click Create Custom Link.

Then copy and paste the values below into the custom link fields:

Name
URL
Icon URL

It should look like this:

Click Save and you're done.

Now when browsing Google Reader, you'll see a "Send To" option for Posterous at the bottom of each reader entry like so:

When you click Posterous, you'll be sent to our "Share on Posterous" page that works like our Bookmarklet. We've also revamped the way the bookmarklet handles text posts so if you don't select any text on a page, we'll still try to extract the meatiest part of the content of a page.

Of course, you can always still just click "Email" to post@posterous.com, and that will still work just great too.

Feel free to email us at help@posterous.com if you run into any problems.

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Posted by Garry Tan 

Comments (48)

Aug 13, 2009
pickled beetnik said...
I just emailed it to posterous and that worked too. but I guess if you want to get all fancy, this works
Aug 13, 2009
sc8tty said...
Awesome! Posterous keeps getting better and better. Thanks, guys.
Aug 13, 2009
Pedro Thomaz said...
Great :D :D
Aug 13, 2009
Sergio Paz said...
Great thats all the share i needed in my reader!
Aug 13, 2009
Charles Owens said...
Yes! Thanks people that's awesome.
Aug 13, 2009
thanks so much! i was using email. but the send to is nicer
Aug 13, 2009
Jay Farmington said...
This is great, it's going to make it even easier to share. My only question... any news or time line on custom or pre-made themes?
Aug 13, 2009
David Huey said...
great stuff!
Aug 13, 2009
Tal Shafik said...
This is great. You guys rolled that out pretty quickly!
Aug 13, 2009
Chris Darling said...
Yikes posterous is super Badddd! ( & that's super Good!)
Keep on rolling it out!
Aug 13, 2009
Corinna said...
I knew it! =)
Aug 13, 2009
Andy Slezak said...
man.... posterous... you are seriously making my life complete....can we have customization/theming soon, pretty please? :)
Aug 13, 2009
Rebekah said...
Thank you :)
Aug 13, 2009
Brian B. said...
Yes!! Thanks!!
Aug 13, 2009
caffo said...
Awesome, thanks a lot posterous!

I made a blog post teaching how to do the same kind of integration but for instapaper:

http://anothercap.com/2009/08/greader_instapaper.html

Hope someone find it useful :)

Aug 13, 2009
LouCypher said...
Thanks. Previously I used
http://posterous.com/bookmarklet/iframe_contents?linkto=${url}&title=${title}
Aug 13, 2009
Dennis Jernberg said...
Done! Thanks!
Aug 13, 2009
Michael Doan said...
More useful everyday! Thanks.
Aug 13, 2009
Tomy Thomson said...
Thanks guys, keep up the great work.
Aug 13, 2009
Tony Steward said...
This is very cool. Makes me even more confident in my switch for my full blog on Posterous.
Aug 13, 2009
Posterous is getting better by the day. This is a great addition, thank you! Is there a way to prevent such a "send to" to be autoposted?
Aug 13, 2009
Rich Manalang said...
So much for building http://posterit.heroku.com. I should have known you guys were going to do this. Thanks... I wish I knew :-)
Aug 13, 2009
Scrap my last comment, thought it was a direct send. Sorry ^^
Aug 13, 2009
ethan said...
WORD!
Aug 13, 2009
Andres Cavelier said...
This is great! Makes things so much easier
Aug 13, 2009
Garry Tan said...
We really appreciate it though Rich. When we add premium we will try to make it up to you. :-)

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Sent from my iPhone

Aug 13, 2009
Great new feature which makes the whole process as easy as the rest of Posterous.
Aug 13, 2009
Bwana McCall said...
Awesome! i emailed help yesterday about this and look at the quick turnaround! <3 Posterous.
Aug 13, 2009
Rafa said...
Fantastic !!!!
Aug 14, 2009
Kahlil Lechelt said...
Thanks
Aug 14, 2009
appleseed said...
Awesome!!
Thank you Posterous!
Aug 14, 2009
Ryo said...
One word: EPIC !

It's a real great thing. Now a non-html editiing mode would be perfect. And I miss a option on every post, to opt out Picasa/Flicker, but still use Twitter.Plurk and Identi.ca for publishing.

Aug 14, 2009
I got Google Reader in Swedish and I don´t seem to have a "send to tab". Maybe it is not yet implemented in the swedish edition of Google Reader?
Aug 14, 2009
Chris Sparno said...
How is it possible that this service keeps getting better every week? Once the iPhone app comes out, I may collapse from the excitement. LOL
Aug 14, 2009
Posterous just released what I was hoping for!
This is awesome.
Aug 14, 2009
Lee Hebert said...
Absolutely PERFECT!!!!!
Aug 14, 2009
Matias Puga said...
great very usefull !
Aug 14, 2009
neto gonzález said...
perfect! ....yeah!!
Aug 14, 2009
Ahmed Younes said...
keep growing posterous awesome
Aug 14, 2009
djd said...
nice
Aug 14, 2009
Jeton Aliji said...
Thank you.

The first thing that went through my mind when I learned of the "Send to" feature was "Posterous should post info on how to use Posterous with it.

Aug 14, 2009
Matt Kinnick said...
You guys keep creating, integrating, and innovating. Gnarly. I love it. Well done.
Aug 14, 2009
Tyson Williams said...
Awesome - thanks for the details!
Aug 14, 2009
Susan said...
Thanks for these instructions! A little while after adding Posterous to the Send To list, I noticed that Google Reader officially added Posterous to their list of services. Cool!
Aug 16, 2009
Awesome! Posterous rockss...!
Aug 26, 2009
aery said...
Thanks for wonderful trick. And congrats its now official :)
Sep 26, 2009
Software said...
Thank you! Useful information
Nov 11, 2009
allangering said...
Thanks for info. It's wonderful for us. Thanks a lot for your useful information and hope to read more from you.
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