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Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Garry Tan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:28:30 -0000

HAHA I love it, Dave. Complexity is Preposterous. Simplicity is Posterous.

I gotta put that on a t-shirt.

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Dave McClure — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:22:02 -0000

was that you laughing, or just marking territory?

McClure.

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Anthony Ha — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:11:06 -0000

Ha.

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Anthony Ha — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:04:36 -0000

Fair enough, Greg, though I think Tumblr is by far the most relevant comparison. I'm more interested in how the bookmarklet it enhances Posterous, not as a standalone feature.

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davemc500hats — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:08:06 -0000

Complexity is pre-Posterous.

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

David Rusenko — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:13:22 -0000

The same way any other host of similar sites do. "But how will these guys make money?" is a cheap and intellectually lazy default response -- more often than not, a popular service will be able to generate significant revenues, and in this case, the path one would take to do so is very straightforward.

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Facebook User — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:57:12 -0000

Posterous is awesomely simple experience. We should all learn from how clean and simple they make things.

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ov6060 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:09:20 -0000

The bookmarklet is a cool service but isn't this simply THE feature set of Y Combinator company SNIPD www.snipd.com ? Garry I think its a great fit and again am a fan of SNIPD and this would seem to be a smart partnership, but why no mention of Alex and his efforts?
best
Greg

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Guest — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:04:55 -0000

Great, but how on earth will these guys make a dime?

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Anthony Ha — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:01:33 -0000

Oh, snap!

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Anthony Ha — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:01:25 -0000

Rawk

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Garry Tan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:40:02 -0000

DS, Posterous bookmarklet does both of those things. =)

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

DS — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:43:06 -0000

Noovo.com bookmarklet is smarter. It automatically detects media and if you select a text, it will be included in the post.

Re: Posterous’ dead simple blogging gets dead simple bookmarklet

Garry Tan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:13:51 -0000

Thanks for the feedback and the coverage, Anthony. Good point re: site selection in "Advanced" -- we'll probably be moving the site-selection dropdown to the top level in our next refresh, possibly later today.