Comments on: Exploring Tumblr and Posterous

By: SF

SF — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:11:24 +0000

I always use the Posterous browser toolbar plug-in, though I find it's a little buggy. Usually end up posting the bulk of the article then logging in to Posterous to edit the post page. But it's a great feature and why I am using the service for the source of all my media streams. E-mail functionality is of course awesome as well.

By: Dennison Uy

Dennison Uy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:07:08 +0000

The only reason I don't use Posterous is its inability to allow JavaScript in the theme. When they start allowing JavaScript I might revisit them.

By: Dennison Uy

Dennison Uy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:07:08 +0000

The only reason I don't use Posterous is its inability to allow JavaScript in the theme. When they start allowing JavaScript I might revisit them.

By: Sachin Agarwal

Sachin Agarwal — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:42:14 +0000

Hi, I’m one of the founders of Posterous.com.

Our goal at Posterous is to make posting rich media dead simple. We actually don’t believe in “pre-defined content types”. That actually makes it harder to post. Why should I have to make a decision about what I want to publish online? Why am I limited to one image, one mp3, one video per post?

With Posterous, you simply email us *anything* and we’ll convert it to the most web friendly format and do the right thing. Multiple photos (which you saw) turn into a gallery, video, audio, documents, all get embedded in flash players.

And supporting email turns out to be great for iPhone users out there. You can email multiple photos from the phone now, video on the 3gs, and audio in the Voice Memos app. It all works perfectly

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:41:45 +0000

I haven’t actually. Thanks for the tip, I’ll take a look at that.

By: Tal Shafik

Tal Shafik — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:35:21 +0000

Have you tried mailing multiple photos now that Tumblr added the PhotoSets feature? Should probably work now.

By: Lifestreaming: Is the era of live-tweeting over? | Old Media, New Tricks

Lifestreaming: Is the era of live-tweeting over? | Old Media, New Tricks — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:09:11 +0000

[...] could be. With both Posterous and Tumblr, you can post photos and text via e-mail or SMS. (Note: Here’s a great comparison of the two services. Mashable did another comparison [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:13:56 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Paul. I think lifestreaming is a great option for those who want to provide a bit more visceral experience than status updates can provide.

With that said, I’m a big fan of Posterous.

By: Fred Epner

Fred Epner — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:16:13 +0000

I dont publicize my posterous account, rather, i use it to autopost to my other accounts. my tumblr is my blog, it where i put and share everything. but its great to have a tool like posterous to push out to all of my accounts.

anyway, only problem. the images i post from the posterous bookmark tool come in as text posts in tumblr. is there a way to configure it to post as an image post?

thanks

By: Nafisa

Nafisa — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:26:23 +0000

I like Posterous because it’s clean & minimilistic and use it as a substitute for Twitpic only. Haven’t tried Tumblr so I cant compare the two. I really like Posterous so not going to bother with Tumblr.