Social networking overload? Simplify your sharing with Posterous

We're psyched to welcome Socialcam as the latest app to offer posting directly to your Posterous site.  Don't settle on your pics and videos living on a generic-looking site surrounded by random ads; instead, choose Posterous for a customized, ad-free site with dozens of autopost sharing options.

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If you have one of these apps installed, sharing on Posterous is as simple as changing your settings.  And if you haven't tried the Posterous iPhone or Android app, you should go get it right now.

Using an unofficial Twitter client like TweetCaster, Twitterific, SimplyTweet, Pichirp, Twittleator, Twidroyd, Spaz or Tweed?  They all support Posterous.

Finally, if you're an app developer who wants to give your users the best web sharing experience possible, let's talk.

Integrating Posterous and Google Buzz

There's definitely been a lot of interest around integrating Posterous and Google Buzz. Right now, they don't have an API that would allow us to make Google Buzz a fully-featured autopost site, but here's a simple way to get posts from your RSS feed into Google Buzz today.

Step 1: Add a link to your Google Profile inside your Posterous bio
To let Google know that your Posterous is associated with your Google profile, just cut / paste the following link into your bio on Posterous, replacing "YOURPROFILE" with your actual profile address, then save it:

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Step 2: Add a link to your public Google profile page
Visit your Google Profile, then add a link to your Posterous page. Make sure that the page is designated as a profile page:
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Step 3 (optional):  Force Google to recrawl your webpage
Use the Social Graph API tool to force Google to recrawl your page. This step is optional; if you choose not to do this, you'll have to wait until Google re-crawls your site.
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Step 4: Add Posterous into Google Buzz
After this, your Posterous site will be available to as a "Connected Site" on Google Buzz:
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New feature: Choose your autopost sites through bookmarklet

Hey guys -- just wanted to clue you in to a small addition that a lot of you asked for, and is now available.

At post time from the bookmarklet or through the web, you can now choose specific sites from your list of autopost destinations!

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More coming tomorrow -- can't wait to share it with you.

Posterous Tip: Turn Posterous tags into autoposted Twitter #hashtags

We all know that Posterous is the easiest way to share photos and videos with your friends on Twitter. Now, we've just added a new feature that turns tags on Posterous into #hashtags when you autopost to Twitter or any other microblog.

For instance:

Subject: It really does smell like teen spirit ((tag: grunge, nirvana))

becomes:

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To enable this feature, just edit the "Advanced Settings" of your Twitter autopost site by visiting the autopost page and add "{{hash_tags}}" to your custom footer:

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Posterous launches super easy Twitter commenting and 2-click Twitter login

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Isn't it about time you set up Posterous to autopost to Twitter? Now your readers can leave comments for you and tweet back through Twitter using our new commenting system. It's easier than ever for people to get involved and have a conversation on your blog.

Posterous now also fully supports Twitter's oAuth API for both Posterous users setting up autopost AND your readers who might want to tweet back right from your Posterous blog. For users who are already logged into Twitter, it's a trivial 2 clicks to get connected with Twitter. Click Allow and you're all set.

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For users who were using the old way (by giving us your twitter login) -- things will still work just fine and you don't have to lift a finger. But if you'd like, you can delete your old Twitter autopost account at http://posterous.com/autopost and create a new one again. If you happen to change your Twitter password, you'll want to do this too. 

In addition to Twitter, Facebook users can easily comment and share back using Facebook Connect. Twitter/Facebook commenters can also now enter their email address to sign up for comment updates.

As always, email us at help@posterous.com if you're having problems getting things working, and we'll get right back to you ASAP. Thanks for using posterous!

Posterous Facebook App revamped! Update your Facebook status, control your photos and invite your friends.

Status updates
We've added the ability to choose between updating your minifeed (which is preferable if you like to expand them to short stories or already have the Twitter app installed) or changing your facebook status (which updates your status with an is.gd short link to your new posterous post.)

Facebook Photo posting options
You can now also control how many photos in a post it takes to create a new album in your Facebook Photos. If you send fewer than that number (we default to 5), we just drop it into the Posterous Photos album, but if you post more than that, you'll get an album with the same name as the post for easy organization.

You can see the new settings on facebook right now by clicking here and selecting "Photo and Blog Autopost Options." If you haven't setup autopost to Facebook yet, this is a great time to start.

Invite your friends
Finally, if you're already autoposting to Facebook, we just added a way for you to invite your Facebook friends to read your posterous and get one of their own. Invite your friends now.

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Customize your autopost messages

Ever want to customize what your Twitter message says when you post from posterous? What about what gets shown on your blog when you post? Now you can. Go to your Autopost Manager and edit settings for your services. You'll see this power-user option when you click Advanced Settings.

Posterous is all about helping you publish everything online, everywhere. Autopost just got more powerful. Got questions, issues, or suggestions? Fire them our way at help@posterous.com.

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