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Posterous Platform Adjusts Focus to Photo Sharing

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I've been blogging on the Posteorus platform for about a month and its worked OK. It is able to quickly turn emails into blog posts, so it does the basic job effectively. However, it is missing many features, such as the ability to add useful widgets to the side of the blog. In addition, Gmail does not make the best text editor, since its also a bit oversimplified. For example, its missing basic formatting options that exist in other programs. 

Today, Posteorus just launched a new focus on being a kind of social network and photo-sharing site. The blogging platform will still exist, but they will no longer be focused on blogs. So I guess I won't be able to expect any blogging platform imptovement. I wish them luck, but I will probably move this blog to WordPress soon.

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Posting from email

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One advantage of posterous is you can post from email. Email is always easy to get to, so you can quickly share a link or comment that way. In fact, I’m currently writing this on my phone in the subway. It does raise security issues though. Do they make sure the email really originated from you? That’s what I’ll check next.

Update: When I sent an email from PHP, they saved it as a draft so I could confirm it was really me. So they don’t have any gaping security hole. 

Posting on Posterous

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Every now and then, I try out a new blogging service. I would like to be able to share links, comments and thoughts on the web. I normally use Facebook, but that limits the audience somewhat. I’m also planning on writing some longer posts, so I wanted to try a new platform. WordPress works fine, but I wanted something focused on speed. I thought about Twitter, but I decided the 140-character is too ridiculous. So I’m trying out Posterous!