Posterous Makes a Play for Business Blogs

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by AndrewWarner • 17 years ago

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hackworth• 17 years ago

well, that is one thing that will definitely set it apart from tumblr. hopefully they can use it to carve out a good niche.

unalone2• 17 years ago

No it doesn't. Tumblr already supports posting to Twitter and to Facebook. What else was there? Putting group names on a blog? Tumblr's had that for years.

Posterous had a lightning start, then fell on its ass; Tumblr adopted its best features and did them better. I mean, Posterous is here bragging about allowing minor thematic changes. I've had complete HTML control of my tumblelogs for three years. Not to mention, Tumblr's default theme is not only more cutting-edge than Posterous's, it's also vastly more attractive.

rantfoil• 17 years ago

At the risk of feeding the trolls, I don't think you really understand what this release is about. It's not about theming (which by the way we support the same theme blocks and parameters that Tumblr does and its trivial to use all existing tumblr themes with Posterous).

The bigger idea here is being able to autopost as a group, which has not been done before as far as I know -- it's great for team twitter accounts, for instance.

Falling on its ass is rather insulting, and also totally untrue.

Rory, please chill out.

edw519• 17 years ago

The link you are accessing has been blocked by the Barracuda Web Filter because it contains content belonging to the category of: Social Networking

Kind of ironic, huh?

I can't access anything from mashable or posterous from the office. Sounds like the first hurdle.

jackowayed• 17 years ago

At least since Posterous just uses email, you could still post to Posterous from the office.

dannyr• 17 years ago

Then, posterous may need to get a different domain for the business blogs.

eswat• 17 years ago

With sites like LinkedIn and Highrise blocked by Barracuda, I think Posterous would have to also bang on some doors to make sure business blogs don't get blocked.

coisanenhuma• 17 years ago

jrmg• 17 years ago

I'm puzzled by this (and their recent blog post about Chevy's use of Posterous) . I almost used Posterous for my company blog, but didn't in the end because their terms of service very clearly say "It is available for non commercial use only, with the exception of being used to Autopost to blogs on Shopify.com."

Posterous Makes a Play for Business Blogs

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