VIRB

I see dozens, possibly even three figures worth of new apps/ ideas and attempts to be cute daily. This one ,Posterous , a blogging by mail service ,has been one of the few worth it's own post.

Why ?

I can explain it to "normals*" in minutes and demonstrate it in even less. Having had the joy of trying to set up online tools for a group too busy to care or ,more often the case, willfully ignorant I wish I'd had this to fall back on.

It sounds silly to people that don't join 10 or more services a day but the setup was getting in the way of anything that the underlying tool had to offer. These "normals" are research scientists, attorneys, traders etc not the run of the mill apathetic, in other words ,but people with no time to help you with the info you, as in you the application developer, need to set up the account.

With regards to blogs/ forums "why can't I just mail this" came up time and time again. It's as if the people at Posterous hang out in the same crowd.


If you can mail :

your usual email, links are happily converted.
Add a photo , it shows up. add more than one and a gallery is created. resizing occurs automatically.
If you send a link from a supported video service it's embedded in a player.
If you send audio it gets it's own player.

All this from as familiar an interface as your mail client and all without jumping through set up hoops to gather info that most applications need just to make sense of their world. There are comments, there is a feed and there's nothing inherently micro , apart from effort, about this blogging tool, for normals

Want to get started?

Send a mail to post@posterous.com enjoy.


* People that don't hit Techcrunch from their Blackberry before leaving bed.

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