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At Posterous, we're in the business of making posting dead simple. But what good is posting if you can't share it? Our autopost tools already make it super easy to let your friends on Facebook and Twitter keep updated about your posts. But what about the rest of your friends and family? You know, your grandmother in Omaha or your uncle in Schenectady ..

That's why we created our new subscribe via email feature -- now anybody with an email (last time we checked, that was 2 billion people) can subscribe to receive regular updates from your Posterous blog. Nice and easy, no signup or account required --- now everybody can join the conversation on your blog.

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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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We're happy to announce that Posterous users with custom domains can now enable Facebook comments on their blogs. By doing so, Facebook users will be allowed to login and leave comments using their Facebook identities. They'll also be able to push those comments to their Facebook stream and link back to your blog.

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Just paste the link to a Poll Everywhere poll into an email, and get a simple, good looking web polling widget like this:

To get started, create a poll (it's free and unlimited for web polling when used with Posterous, no registration required) and then copy the URL from the browser, like so:

And paste it into a post or email. We'll handle the rest, and expand the link into the poll you see above. 

Questions? Let us know as usual at help@posterous.com or Poll Everywhere's GetSatisfaction page. What are you waiting for? Try it by creating a poll now!

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New mini-update: We redid the tag editor so that now you can add/edit tags from the post editor and the bookmarklet too. Just hit "More post options" or "Advanced options" and type away.

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Keeping your LinkedIn network up to speed on what you're working on is easier than ever with Posterous. Just add LinkedIn as an autopost site and we'll update your status message anytime you post to Posterous.

Add LinkedIn now

Here's a sample of how your status updates will appear on your profile:

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We've just introduced a new retweet button that makes it super easy to share interesting stuff with your Twitter followers without ever leaving Posterous.

To disable or enable retweeting, visit your manage page at http://posterous.com/manage and click the "Settings Tab". Under the "Look and Feel" section, click "More Theme Options" and check "Enable Retweet Button."

You can also add the retweet button and customize its look on your custom theme. Theme hackers can consult the retweet documentation for our theming engine here.

Big thanks to Backtype for supplying all of the realtime retweet counts.

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Hey guys... still got a bunch of bigger things in the pipe you'll hear about soon, but wanted to let you know that now you can easily embed Flickr sets and tags. Just paste the URL, e.g. from the address bar:

into a post or an email, and you'll automatically get the Flickr embedded slideshow, shown below. (Gallery courtesy razorbern aka Bernie DeChant, a personal flickr favorite, and one of the most talented photographers I have ever met.)

This works for tag pages too! If you're a flickr user, give it a try by emailing post@posterous.com now.

Got a URL or online embed you'd like auto-expanded? Fire us a note at help@posterous.com. We want to make it brain-dead simple to post everything you could possibly think of.

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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:

becomes:

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Works great with both the bookmarklet and by pasting the link to songs, albums, and videos directly from those services.

Lala has thousands of songs that are easily embeddable into your blog just by pasting the URL to the album or song.

For instance, just paste the URL into its own line in your post:

And get this!

Viddler and Google Video hosted videos are now supported as auto-expanding site URLS as well. Just paste the URL and go. No need for an embed code.

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