1.Nikon or Canon DSLR or Lumix FZ superzoom
2.Asus or Lenovo Netbook
3.Apple iPhone 3GS
4.Sony or Samsung 42 inch LCD
5.Bose Home theatre system
6.Microsoft XBox or Nintendo Wii
7.Ipod Touch
8.All purpose remote control
9.Amazon Kindle
10.Last but not (at)least 1 TB external Hard Disk
List in no particular order except last one.
Think of tiny URLs what you like but they have an advantage when sharing links with eachother.
I wish dropbox would have an integrated short-URL feature in it's iPhone and desktop app so that it makes sharing via twitter etc easier. What i can do now with the iPhone app is send an email with a linked text to someone. Why not show the URL so that i can at least copy/paste it to other apps? And why not use a short URL, so that twitter likes it? Or offer more sharing options than just email? This would make things easier with the desktop tool as well.
The Buddah loves to give & if you rub his belly right way you might just get your heart's desire. Which would be?
i wish this here
http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-tip-turn-posterous-tags-into-autopo-0
would work the other way round (as well)
so i wouldn't have to add all these extra chars when i'm sending from my iPhone.
#hashtag is much simpler than ((tag: hashtag))
When i first saw that you can autopost to delicious i thought i should try posterous as a new social bookmarking service.
I am using mento since 15 months now but it's lacking some things i long for and it seems that it's not being worked on anymore, so no improvements and new features in sight. Luckily i have always sent my bookmarks to delicous as well (mento offers this through the api), so there is kind of a backup and quicker way to search through them. I have a need to search through my old bookmarks from time to time or through those of my network, when i think "man, there was this site but i can't remember the name or URL...". Mentos search result page is not very helpful in this case unfortunately, very confusing and unclear with duplicates so i mostly used delicious when searching.
So why not use delicious in the first place? Well, for me delicious is definately missing a visual glance at the bookmarks. A thumbnail, screenshot, logo,... Mento has this, posterous has this. You can easily add images with their bookmarklets. Yesterday i tested delish, a mac OSX desktop app, but it's very slow and it only shows you the thumbnails which are created "on the fly", so it's only about half the deal.
Well okay, having screenshots is not everything. What am i looking for exactly? How do i use mento nowadays and what should posterous have to fulfill my need here?
I use Mentos Firefox plugin when i use Firefox and the bookmarklet in Safari. The plugin has some more features but the bookmarklet is okay in most cases. When there is no nice visual on the page i want to bookmark i use skitch to upload a screenshot of the prefered area to mento first, the uploaded picture is shown with the next bookmark then automatically. This btw was a great great feature Greg implemented! Mentos bookmarklet lets you add tags, channels and descriptions, gives you a chance to directly share this link with a network friend (or a facebook contact) or via twitter. This is something i am missing with the posterous bookmarklet: Adding tags directly.
Network: my Mento network consists of a few very likeminded people whose boomarks i like a lot, early adopters, designers, coders, people that like and need the same things i do. Posterous does make it easy to follow people and create a new network, even though i am missing something like channels, topic groups and explore pages to find new people and content, to have a bigger feeling of a community and a togetherness. Edit: i just found there actually is an explore page.
Autoposting to delicious creates a bookmark to the posterous article not the target. This could be very confusing for people searching and finding my bookmarks at delicious, it's about sharing, so i want it to be nice not only for myself. Another fact is that you can send exclusively to delicious only via email (not the bookmarklet) or by autoposting to delicious later, when the post has already been published.
By default "autopost everywhere" is checked in posterous' bookmarklet and it's hidden behind the "advanced options" link. I do not want to flood all my linked networks like facebook, twitter, friendfeed, tumblr with this as well, but it would happen once i forget to uncheck and select the right posterous from the list ( i want to use a seperate blog for the bookmarks )
I think posterous' search would do the job for me, although i would love to have a quick result view with only the titles listed as well (not only but as an option, see delicious). I know, this is the exact opposite of my wish for screenshots but sometimes this is handy.
But that is about it i think. Anything else here at posterous feels so supersmooth that it makes me smile each time i use it. It's easy as 1-2-3 with the ability to send everything in via email and Garry and Sachin really seem to be nice guys listening to their users.
I already exchanged some thoughts about this whole topic here at Andy's posterous (german).
Please leave your comments if you have ideas or solutions... thanks alot for reading!
hard to read on the iphone without zooming.
I'd love to see a "light" version for the iphone.
and... like i said so many times before i'm so into
google readers and dropulars keyboard navigation (not on the iphone of course but in your browser) :)
would be a great experience for picture galleries AND all subsciption articles
to move through them by hitting the arrow keys.
My (Judith's) sister, Deb, has been the artist of the family. Recently, she decided she wanted to wear an Aladdin's lamp around her neck. When she couldn't find one anywhere,she designed one. When her friends "got" her idea, they wanted them too, so she had 100 made in Bali. And they are selling like hotcakes!
Her website is www.myinfinitewishes.com where you can see her necklace, and can read about it to hear her story.
And, of course, who doesn't need a special gift at this time.... especially YOU??
Perhaps the best part is that a portion of the proceeds goes to my sister's friend, Hope, who had a stroke and has no job, no health insurance, and no family. Hope is a wonderful human being, fun and easy to be with, and has become part of our lives....
And my sister is terrific! Check out her necklace, order one, and start making wishes! How else can they be granted? Since I've worn mine, I've had 17 of my own wishes come true, And that's only in the last three weeks!
See how it works for you and please let us know! It's time to make your wishes! http://www.myinfinitewishes.com/
