I don’t know when I started following Steve Rubel, but I feel like I’ve been reading his blog for quite a while now.
In the last week or so, Steve made an announcement that he would no longer be updating his blog and was moving to lifestreaming. I’m all about the bleeding edge, so I headed over to Posterous and signed up. (Actually, I already had an account and didn’t even remember signing up. Talk about bleeding edge, I beat Rubel to the technology.)
The idea is pretty straightforward: You post your information to Posterous and it automatically forks you content and distributes it to multiple other services. Simply provide your Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, YouTube, WordPress, Blogger, and your self-hosted blog. Pretty amazing stuff.
So far, I like it. I have decided not to post my Posterous info to my blog, because the noise to signal ratio is pretty high. I use Google Reader extensively to send myself articles that I need to read later, so I’ve started sending some of those articles to Posterous too. I can also send quick texts, notes, pictures, etc, but I don’t want to clutter the blog with that information, so I have removed my blog from the list of post options. However, I have linked my Twitter and Picasa accounts.
Personally, I think this is a great service and very helpful to keep up with all these things. However, I do worry that I might neglect my Twitter followers or my blog readers if I start focusing too much on Posterous.
On a related note, I noticed that Posterous was a product of Y Combinator, which Inc. Magazine profiled this month.
I am a bit impressed with the page views though. Each of my Posterous entries have generated a few more hits than I would expect, averaging almost 40 per post. Pretty impressive considering I haven’t really promoted the site and almost no one knows that I have a Posterous account.
So, I’ll keep you all posted. In the mean time, does anyone have any good uses, tips, tricks, or hacks for Posterous? I’d love to hear about them in the comments.
Related articles by Zemanta
- Edelman’s Steve Rubel Switches from Blog to Lifestream (pbs.org)
- Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head (mashable.com)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=ee38fcec-8196-460e-af59-23263ded6e31)
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
I just confuse what posterous offer. They said skip the signup process. So we don’t need sign up anymore then send anything we want to put including photo, video, or mp3 to their email then they will create a new page for us. How can I trust them with all my files? I think it will be more save if we can create password-protected page than send email about us.