Easy Blogging Using Email - Posterous
Posterous launched yesterday (see comments on this post). It is a really easy way to blog, maybe the easiest way that I have seen so far.
You can start posting by sending emails. Posting photographs, images, video's and mp3's is just as easy.
In the subject of your email you type the post title. Then in the body of the mail the post. Don't forget to switch of your standard email signature.
Attach the photographs that you want to display in your blog post.
See this example of 6 photos that I attached to an email.
Of course you can also connect to other bloggers on posterous.
The idea looks a lot like Tumblr, however it is a lot easier. Tumblr can be used more like an autoposter of your updates on other services like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube...
On the other hand Tumblr has some great features like mobile posting, Widget for on your Mac for direct posting, post via IM, embed tumblr logs in other websites.
Twitter has proven that simplicity can give you a great crowd. Opening up the service for developers would be a great point for Posterous. Developers could than build plugins. This way advanced users can add features to Posterous to get more out of it.
Via FrankMeeuwsen on Twitter
Repurposing of what we already do is a key element in increasing perceived participation. Neat.
Posted by: david cushman | June 30, 2008 at 07:41 AM