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Certain aspects of Mobile Me need work, like iDisk. Other aspects work well, like email and Mobile Me sync.

I'm saying that Apple should make Mobile Me free, and put more resources behind it to make it better. They should focus on increasing its adoption, and making it a core piece of their mobile platform.

As opposed to trying to monetize from it directly.

I looked into Trinet. Their cost shocked me. It wasn't something I could justify spending money on, especially since setting up health care and most other HR tasks are one time costs.

I didn't have a good experience with a broker. They were typical sleazy salesmen type. They pushed way too many options on me, instead of really trying to figure out the best plan for us.

Ultimately what it boiled down to is there were so many plans, with so many options, that I did ultimately have to understand it thoroughly to make a good decision.

Hey guys,

Posterous partnered with Viglink.com back in December as an experiment to see if we could generate revenue by adding an affiliate code to links that don't already have one. We chose to work with Viglink because their technology doesn't interfere with the user experience at all.

1. Links in Posterous posts are not edited in any way 2. Viglink javascript intercepts clicks and adds an affiliate code when possible 3. Affiliate codes are not stripped or altered if they already exist 4. Copying links is unchanged

Before deploying this change, we tested it heavily to make sure we weren't doing anything that would be visible to the publisher or reader. The fact that it took 4 months for someone to really notice this is a testament to how unobtrusive it is.

Some people have commented that we should be sharing revenue back to the users. You are absolutely right. This is something we mentioned to Viglink at our very first meeting with them and something we will add when it's technically possible.

Admittedly, we should have announced this on our blog. This was definitely an oversight on our part. Our goal is to be 100% transparent with everything we do at Posterous, especially when it affects your blog and content.

From Posterous, we apologize. Going forward we will be sure to notify you of any changes we make to the site.

With regards to viglink: we really appreciate all your feedback and we're going to evaluate our use of the service going forward.

-Sachin cofounder, posterous.com

Not sure what's going on there. That site isn't even a Posterous website so I don't understand why you think those redirects are related to Posterous

I don't know what most of those things are, and I'm guessing most of the world doesn't either.

When we launched posterous in 2008, yes it was missing a bunch of features. But look at us now (or actually, in a month, we have a lot of stuff about to launch). We'll have everything all other blog platforms have, and more.

But SIX YEARS after gmail's launch, they can't say the same.

For Posterous, and any other web app, we'd have to decide the tradeoff. If we focused on one browser, could we add enough value to that experience that it's worth dropping support for Ubuntu Firefox?

Each browser and each developer should be able to decide this, instead of being slowed down by the platform as a whole.

go for it

yep, new web editor that allows uploads and editing of all posts.

one photo per post, 5 minutes per video, one audio file per week. can't mix media in a single post.

Our goals for Posterous are just totally different than what Tumblr is going for. We're aiming for Wordpress.com, not a microblog.

Tumblr is a microblog. Posterous is a full blog + website creator that doesn't have to impose artificial limitations and post types in order to be simple.

Think about the millions of businesses out there who need a website, and want to be on Twitter and Facebook. Most of these people have no clue how to setup a self hosted wordpress site. And even if they knew how, don't have the time to do it.

For these people, paying for a hosted website is well worth it.

You forgot the part about "do those features better". :)

"How does a universal interface look like, that allows arbitrary other apps to get photos from iPhoto"

Apple has an iLife media browser. It lets any application access any of the media on your system, including photos and music.

You're kidding, right? iPhotos email button for photos is exactly my point. There should be intelligent communication and data sharing between apps, not at the Finder level.

in iPhoto, there's a preference to set which email client it sends to

Every app should be able to access the music, photos, videos, and other files on a system through smart APIs. But the user doesn't need to know about it or manage it

the finder was rewritten (so i was wrong about that) but it didn't functionally change. Apple isn't actively innovating within the Finder.

Spaces and Expose are not "Finder" directly, but they are still concepts trying to deal with the issues around windows, multiple apps, and sharing between apps.

thanks! we're psyched

post.ly took us about a week to build, and really shows the power of our API. It's a great way to teach people about Posterous, and trounce all the other Twitter media services out there.

tjpick thanks for pointing out how you can get more than 50 posts out by using the page parameter. Yes, the documentation is not very clear at all and we need to fix that.

rizzn, it's true that most of our users wouldn't be able to use the export API since they are not programmers.

But we're relying on programmers to write the shims needed to go from Posterous to Wordpress, Posterous to Tumblr, Posterous to Blogger. We simply don't have the resources to do this, so we wrote export to be as generic as possible.

Other sites do export by letting you pull down an XML file with all posts. We could do this, but then what about the media? Where should we put that?

The point is, we always want to let you get your info out. We have assured our users (including Scoble and Rubel personally) that they will always be able to get their data out, including the original files they have sent us, if they ever need to.

There are about 20k, up from 10k when I started there 6 years ago. But I think 5k-8k of them work at the retail stores around the world.

Then take into account all the people who do QA, all the management, marketing, business, finance, and other teams.

And you're actually left with a pretty lean engineering force. Apple engineers more stuff in house than a typical company like Dell, so that plays into the head count as well

I worked at Apple for 6 years. Believe me, the teams are still very, very small and focused. If you have a small team, you don't need to worry so much about feature creep: you don't have time to work on the less vital stuff

teams at apple are TINY. Mail is like 3 guys. iChat is 1. Address Book is 1. iPhone apps (non web based) is like a 3 person team.

Final Cut Pro was around 15, which is still incredibly small given how big our application was.

Yeah, i'm not happy when people think Posterous is microblogging or Tumbleblogging. There's no limit to what you can send us, and that's the beauty of email.

Oh well, people can use us however they want, compare us to whatever they see fit. When people say they use Tumblr, I ask them how they post 3 photos, and they are stumped :)

We autopost to any blog running metaweblog api, which square space does. I was able to add a square space site to my test account and autopost to it fine, but others have had issues. email us if you need to do this and need help

I second the recommendation to get a Mac Mini. Works so well to do everything you would want on your entertainment system: • Use the apple remote, or the Logitech Harmony remote • Optionally get a bluetooth kb/mouse or use VNC • Everything in iTunes plays via front row • Rent/Buy HD TV/movies via iTunes • Hulu/Pandora/Boxee all work perfectly • play dvds • One click rip DVDs to play later • iChat AV on a giant screen • Plug a printer into it and it's shared across your netowrk • Get an EyeTV tuner. They are known for the best PC DVR interface out there. Record programs to watch later

I have this all working and i love it

man this is totally sweet. someone should combine this with the Posterous API and make dead simple Kodak to Posterous converter. :)

We also received a similar spam like email and were very confused about what was going on. Initially, they just wanted to make sure a representative of the company could attend the event, because otherwise you're not even eligible to win.

Since then i have emailed them questions, mostly just to find out when the winners will be announced, and have received no responses at all. They seem to keep dragging this out, claiming we're "on a short list to win" but then adding additional rounds of cuts, and now this voting.

It's like all they want is to get more press and publicity for themselves, at the expense of the companies nominated. If I need to be at this thing next week (a Friday and Saturday) I need to plan around it! They can't expect to let me know if I'm a winner, just a few days in advance, and think i will drop everything to speak at their event.

I think it's incredibly unprofessional and very selfish how this is being run.

For other services, posting by email is an afterthought. it's poorly implemented, severely limited.

With Posterous, you can send us anything by email and we'll handle it. Multiple images, video, audio, other documents all in a single message. That message can also have full html and we'll publish it all.

We autopost to Twitter (tumblr does this now) but also to Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr, and all the major blog platforms. So you can email us once, we'll handle all the rich media, and then update all the websites you use.

We also have a great bookmarklet. You should try it out.

yeah, we at Posterous are happy to have this built into gmail. Our users are going to love it. But, you could always do inline images with Posterous by using a rich client like Mail or Thunderbird.