I discovered Posterous the day it was featured on TechCrunch France. When ? Last June 28th (2008). It’s been a long time. I never used it, I thought it was useless; another service like many others so I wasn’t interested. I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Posterous is the key element of your blogging cycle. Here:
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The dotted arrows means that it isn’t obligatory to stream from this to that.
Twitter keeps track of all your web activity into one, clear, straightforward place. It’s fast, mobile and in real-time.
WordPress, like any other weblog service is complex and not fast. It’s the professional place where you post your blog’s articles. Your blog is a blog about cars, sports, tech, anything, but it’s not personal. When you post, your Twitter account is notified and tweets about your article.
Posterous is your personal stream. It’s faster and easier than WordPress yet richer than Twitter. It’s your web home. Each of your WordPress post could go on Posterous as it is your stream. If you have other social networks such as Flickr or Facebook, it can be streamed to Posterous. It also works in the opposite way. Posterous can autopost to Twitter, Facebook etc.
I forgot to explain Posterous’ blogging system. Just post whatever you want (music, video, text, photo) to post@posterous.com and it will be published.
From now on, my web life will follow the image above. My Posterous is ulysse.posterous.com
