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Re: The Architechure of Participation

garrytan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:31:08 -0000

Thanks for the mention! One thing posterous lets you do is have instant comment conversations with almost no work. And you make a great point -- it's incredibly important to keep things simple and avoid clutter. That's one of the big challenges in user experience these days. But I'm excited about the challenges coming our way.

--Garry, cofounder, posterous.com

Re: Mobile Photoblogging, Redux

revrev — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:19:24 -0000

Thank, Gary! This is very helpful to know. As I've pointed out before, and spoken to you directly, I love Posterous and think it's a great way for me to do what I'm trying to do, but just isn't quite perfect yet. For the immediate future I plan to use Posterous as another content outlet, possibly for music.

Re: Mobile Photoblogging, Redux

garrytan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:54:27 -0000

Thanks for the feedback -- I notice this on my own feed myself.
We're working on an update to the Facebook app so that you can control what if anything happens with posterous posting to FB. So you can control whether you want the twitter app to propagate status, and/or if you want flickr to show up in your feed, or whether you want to use posterous for both or neither.

Stay tuned at our blog -- blog.posterous.com. Thanks again for the post!

Re: 5 Music Startups to Watch in 2009 | Sachin Rekhi

garrytan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:05:08 -0000

JamLegend is the rockinest game I've seen online in a long time. Those guys are brilliant.

Re: Posterous (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:04:36 -0000

Let us help you with the API -- the readers of this blog love technical challenges, and of course I do too!

And thanks for the kind words...

Re: Posterous (Scripting News)

garrytan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:02:25 -0000

Dave, I can't tell you how much of an honor it is for you to use Posterous, let alone to give us such fantastic feedback.

An API is coming in the near future that will not just allow web posting but other groundbreaking features for media hosting / email processing too. We'll clean up those namespaces and add a comment element. I could have sworn we also do an enclosure element here, but I'll doublecheck, we might have missed it.

Many thanks to the father of RSS.

Re: HEIRHEAD

garrytan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:19:50 -0000

Hey there
Sorry to hear it's not working. Let me know what I can do to help. help@posterous.com

Re: Posterous grasping at straws?

imog — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:29:39 -0000

I'm a sucker for idealism, and I like the outlook above. "Be Good"... It's like a positive spinoff of Goog's "don't be evil".

I don't really use twitter, and I never saw the value in it from the start - when your scoble or laporte sure, but for the rest of folks theres just a lot of minutiae mostly.

Posterouson the other hand, I've already picked up and I like its features - I haven't gotten much use out of it yet, but I have plans for it. I like what your doing, and I like being inspired by people with vision. It sounds like Garry and Sachin have it.

Re: Ranked Index - yc

garrytan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:52:52 -0000

How do I add posterous.com to this list? =)

Re: Tumblr and Posterous side by side at lifeinlists.com

garrytan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:14:32 -0000

Thanks for the comparison, Evan. I really don't think of us as that similar-- in fact, we autopost to tumblr. We are pretty complementary.

Re: We are all publishers, where IS my personal publishing tool?

garrytan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:13:23 -0000

WOW, this is brilliant. This fits exactly with our broader vision for Posterous. We want it to be the way you post absolutely everything.

Thanks for your thoughts -- expanding dead simple common rich media posting to absolutely every service on the Internet holds incredible promise.

Re: Posterous is preposterously simple.

ryangraves — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:56:07 -0000

Garry I should have done an update to the post. This has been fixed!
I do get a confirmation each time I post but I don't mind that...

Re: Posterous is preposterously simple.

garrytan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:59:15 -0000

Hey Ryan

Let me know how we can fix your email address issues. Do you get a confirm every time you post? We have been seeing that with people using gmail for corporate mail (hosted domains) and are rolling a fix asap.

Other than that, our upstream provider (textmarks) doesn't support MMS at the moment. We're on the lookout for better providers. If you send an MMS to post@posterous.com that does work, however, from what we've seen with many mobile carriers.

-g

Re: I Still Love Twitter

janequigley — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:35:29 -0000

Gary - thanks for responding! I completely agree - and I'm all set up to autopost to Twitter. I like how easy and simple Posterous is to post to. Really enjoying the service.

Re: I Still Love Twitter

garrytan — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:30:28 -0000

Posterous is really a companion to Twitter. Email post@posterous.com and it'll appear everywhere, including your Twitter if you set up autopost. You can use us kind of like twitpic, only you get your own ongoing blog. It's especially useful if you have something slightly longer to say than what will fit in 140 characters. Or if you just want to fire an email from your blackberry or iphone and have it appear.

Re: Posterous becomes a one-stop-shop for cross platform blogging

garrytan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:37:41 -0000

MG, thanks for the mention. You're right, there are some great ways posterous can make both mobile and desktop blogging easier, and it's all because email is so natural for everyone.

-Garry, cofounder, posterous.com

Re: Posterous grasping at straws?

garrytan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:32:39 -0000

Hey Duncan,

Thanks for your mention on inquisitr, again! And we're delighted to have you as a user too.

Sachin and I have been talking for some time about building a service that we ourselves would use. We want to do the things that most other blog platforms don't think to do-- things that are useful and solve problems for people. Paul Graham talks at length about this in his essay, Be Good (http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html). And what this means is building features that are just good and useful for our users, almost in the face of what conventional wisdom would dictate a self-interested rational actor would do.

Here's an example -- why is it that sites like Facebook don't always do comment-replies by email? Replying to an email is the natural response to an email notification about a comment. Either it's hard for them to understand SMTP (something I highly doubt), or they want to drive pageviews and traffic to their websites. At the core of that sort of attitude is not being good -- it's blowing off a no-brainer great feature that users would love just game the system and to juice numbers.

Another example -- we provide zip downloads of content if the user wants to provide it to their friends. If I upload 20 photos of a great day out in SF with family, I want my friends and family to be able to download that content and do whatever they want with it. It's my content, right? Again, we see that most other websites work like heck to prevent people from getting access to their own data like that. You'll be loathe to see a "download this gallery" link from anywhere. Again, to juice the system, and get people coming back.

We don't play that way because we don't think the game should be played that way. What we find is that you can't expect people to switch to posterous overnight. In fact, people have communities built around what they're doing already. We don't believe in forcing you to switch because we want you to stay connected everywhere. I want that, wouldn't you? Whenever you switch services, it's kind of like forcing you to move to a different island. You have to say goodbye to your friends, and that's not being good.

When it comes to being an open provider of a service to all blog platforms, we think it boils down to solving a burning problem that we all face -- that we all find ourselves at one point or another uploading or posting to multiple services. This is just dumb. Use posterous and it's a no-brainer -- one email attachment and you're done.

If we can be useful to someone right now, today, then we want to be useful for them. And they'll tell their non-blogging friends too, so we can get experienced bloggers AND expand the blogging space with first-time bloggers at the same time.

Finally, we're working hard to get better every single day... so at some point, it'll be crazy for you not to switch. =)

Thanks for reading a long response, and for using posterous!
-Garry, cofounder, posterous.com

PS, My cofounder Sachin also blogged about this on his posterous prior to the article but everything he says is totally applicable: Why we did it (http://sachin.posterous.com/autopost-to-everyth...)

Re: AZspot | Tumblr is a lot more feature rich than Posterous

garrytan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:23:58 -0000

Hey, thanks for the pub. Theming is on the way. Posterous just got started a few months ago, and while we don't have the kitchen sink yet, we're working on it.

The reason we released so early is that we hope to make sure we develop the things people really want and need, instead of developing in isolation. Paul Graham from Y Combinator has always encouraged us to release early -- as soon as we have one quanta of usefulness. Then iterate from there. We wholeheartedly agree.