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Email is the most convenient way to post, and now it is just as convenient to keep up with your posterous subscriptions by email too. We've just added daily email subscription emails to Posterous so you can read your favorite posterous blogs right there in your inbox. We can also do weekly updates if you'd like to be updated less often.

If you don't get your first email tonight or you'd like to switch how often you get emails from us, update your email settings. Don't worry -- if you've opted out of any of our other emails, you'll be automatically opted out of this one as well.

It's also a great time to tell your readers to click subscribe on your blog to get email updates. Email a new post and let your friends know they can subscribe to your blog and get email updates every day.

You can now create private posts on Posterous to share with just a select group of people. Simply email private@posterous.com. We'll reply back with a secret url that you can give to the people who you want to share that post with. You can also make a post private on the post editing screen.

This post won't show up on your public Posterous site, or in your RSS feed. And if you have Autopost set up, private posts will NOT be autoposted to your other sites.

As always, send feedback and questions to help@posterous.com.

Posterous now supports video! Simply email us your mov, avi, 3gp, or m4v files (or whatever else you have), and we'll convert them into embedded flash players instantly. Sharing video on the web has never been easier. Try it now: email post@posterous.com a video file off your digital camera. That's all there is to it, no account necessary!

A few years ago I organized a poker tournament with about 100 players and thousands of dollars in the pot. Here's the 8 hour event, sped up to just 1 minute.

Click here to download:

Sequence 1-iPhone.m4v (8067 KB)

We even went back and processed all the videos you've sent us in the past, so check your old posts for the new player.

Also: we added support for many additional audio formats such as wav and m4a. Send those to us to get the Posterous audio player right in your blog.

There are a ton of different video formats out there so if you find one that doesn't play in your post, email us and we'll check it out.

Want an image gallery out of that folder of images on your desktop? Just turn the folder into a zip and email it to Posterous. If we get a zip file that contains multiple images (and only images), we'll turn the images into a gallery and provide a download link to your original zip file. Easy!

Tip: On a Mac you can turn files or folders into a zip by right clicking on them and selecting "compress"

A podcast is stream of audio or music that people can automatically subscribe to through something like iTunes. Whenever an update happens, all your subscribers download your new audio post and can listen to it on their computers or iPods.

Now you can use Posterous to publish your podcast using email. All you have to do is email us an audio file attachment like an MP3. We'll automatically add your MP3 file to your posterous, and in addition to the flash player in the post, we'll make sure that the file is added to your RSS feed in a way that iTunes and other podcast players can read it.

People can subscribe to your Podcast by going to iTunes, clicking Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast... and then pasting the RSS address of your posterous, which follows the format: http://[yoursite].posterous.com/rss

If you or your friends have iPods, they can subscribe to your podcast feed and always get the audio you post to your Posterous!

Edit: Thanks to Jon Hickman for pointing out that iTunes provides a way to put links directly to subscriptions, using the itpc protocol. Just provide your users a link to this URL: itpc://[yoursite].posterous.com/rss  -- it would then operate similarly to if you clicked this link (which will subscribe you to one of our best posterous users, espig-music!)

Also, if you'd like to add this itunes link to your blog more prominently, just cut and paste this code into your profile:

Subscribe to this podcast (iTunes) 

If you'd like to publish your podcast publicly, you can actually list your podcast in iTunes. See the iTunes FAQ page for more information on how to do this.

Thanks for all the feedback about our new Autopost feature. We're really excited about being the gateway for you to post your content to all the services you use on the web.

Now you can control which posts get posted to the other services by emailing your posts to different email addresses. Just send your posts to:

post@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous, as well as any flickr and twitter accounts registered with us

Posting photos through email makes a ton of sense since there are dedicated "email" buttons built into applications like iPhoto and Picasa. These buttons create new mail messages with the photos attached, ready to be sent to your posterous site. You can use this feature if you use a desktop mail application like Mail.app or Thunderbird.

Webmail users like Gmail users don't get this integration. Until now. I just discovered the iPhoto2Gmail plugin (there's an Aperture2Gmail plugin as well).

Yesterday we introduced commenting via email. When someone comments on your post, you get an email. No need to visit the web to post another comment, just hit reply! Your comment will be added to the post and emailed to other users on the thread.

Email is not only the easiest way to share files, but it's the easiest way to comment on posts and communicate with friends. It's very natural to have a conversation over email regarding that mp3 you just shared or the photos from your vacation you just posted. And that's why we introduced commenting via email.

We hope it leads to more commenting on posts. Let us know what you think!