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Posterous Tip: Turn Posterous tags into autoposted Twitter #hashtags
We all know that Posterous is the easiest way to share photos and videos with your friends on Twitter. Now, we've just added a new feature that turns tags on Posterous into #hashtags when you autopost to Twitter or any other microblog.
For instance:Subject: It really does smell like teen spirit ((tag: grunge, nirvana))
becomes:
To enable this feature, just edit the "Advanced Settings" of your Twitter autopost site by visiting the autopost page and add "{{hash_tags}}" to your custom footer:
Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours!
Posterous is proud to announce the ability to change the look and feel of your Posterous blog! It's been a long time coming, and are we ever excited about releasing this feature to you guys today.
Choose from five built-in themes
Including one designed by theme creator Bill Israel. And we've got a whole ton more on the way. We wanted to get this in your hands ASAP, and we'll be releasing more into the system as soon as we create them.
Be able to upload header images
Customize your blog by creating a custom blog header in your favorite image editor. Then just upload it and see it at the top of every page on your blog. No coding experience necessary.
And choose new colors
Want to change the link color? Switch something up? Use our color picker and you don't have to code a single line of HTML.
For people who want to customize to the max...
If you're an advanced user, designer, or engineer, now you can totally change the CSS and HTML layout of your site.
Not only that, Posterous Themes are Tumblr-compatible. We built the Posterous Theme Engine to work great with the thousands of existing Tumblr themes out there! Just drop the theme code into the "advanced mode" editor. Want to add commenting and favoriting? It's just a couple lines of simple HTML away. Read more about it in our theming docs.
Some examples of Posterous Themes in the wild...
Check out what Posterous super-themer Cory Watilo has built with full CSS / HTML customization:
Our friends at Mugasha, Vidly, and Tweetvite have all chosen Posterous to host their company startup blogs. Dustin Curtis is liveblogging his 30 day flight on JetBlue on posterous too!
So what are you waiting for? It's enabled on your Posterous blog now. Go to your Manage page, and click Edit Settings > Theme and Customize to get started.
Posterous gets a mention in 37signals' Signal vs. Noise Blog
37signals has been a huge inspiration for us. They invented Rails and pioneered a new way of thinking about web startups that is shaking up the conventional wisdom around how technology startups operate. They recently linked to us in their blog of cool new things on the Internet, and we wanted to return the favor.
See their blog post here.
Extra 37signals awesomeness, since we're talking about them...
- David Heinemeier Hansson at YCombinator Startup School 2008 [Omnisio] -- "The Secret to Making Money Online"
- Getting Real, an eBook -- Brilliant manifesto of how an agile web startup can THRIVE. Inspiring, must read for anyone interested in startups.
Consumer Reports finds that hands-on therapies among top-rated treatments for back pain
Hands-on therapies are among the top-rated treatments for people suffering with back pain according to a new survey by the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center. Fifty-eight percent rated chiropractic/spinal manipulation as helping a lot. And massage (48%) and physical therapy (46%) were close runners up. Consumers also rated their satisfaction with practitioners, telling Consumer Reports they were more likely to be “highly satisfied” with the back pain treatment received from their chiropractors (59%) than from their primary-care physicians (34%).
Read more via chathamjournal.com
New: More control over autopost
We've been getting a ton of requests for this, so here you go. You can now autopost your Posterous posts to other sites right from the post page itself. Simply click the "Post to elsewhere" button on your post's page, and then click where you want the post sent.
This enables you to post via posterous@posterous.com, so it's not automatically autoposted, check the post online, edit it, get it just right, and then autopost it when you are ready. This also means if you have multiple blogs setup with Posterous, you can choose to post to just one of those. Finally, when you create a new post on the website itself, there's an option under "More options" that lets you disable autopost for that post.
Customize your autopost messages
Ever want to customize what your Twitter message says when you post from posterous? What about what gets shown on your blog when you post? Now you can. Go to your Autopost Manager and edit settings for your services. You'll see this power-user option when you click Advanced Settings.
Posterous is all about helping you publish everything online, everywhere. Autopost just got more powerful. Got questions, issues, or suggestions? Fire them our way at help@posterous.com.
The new Posterous bookmarklet lets you grab photos, video, and text right out of the page you're already on!
The Posterous bookmarklet is a special bookmark that lets you quickly grab content out of the page you're on. You can click and drag to select text and click "Share on Posterous" in your bookmark bar, and you'll get the Posterous bookmarklet window that will let you edit text, add a comment, and choose which site to post to. Just click the bookmark on its own and it will auto-detect all large photos, video and media on the page, even from your friends blogs or posterii.
If you use it in conjunction with Autopost, suddenly the bookmarklet
becomes a universal bookmarklet that you can use to post to
Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and any other blog that Posterous supports.
Click here to install it and start posting right away.
Control where your content is posted
Thanks for all the feedback about our new Autopost feature. We're really excited about being the gateway for you to post your content to all the services you use on the web.
Now you can control which posts get posted to the other services by emailing your posts to different email addresses. Just send your posts to:
post@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous, as well as any flickr and twitter accounts registered with us
posterous@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous but not on the other services
twitter@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous and twitter accounts are updated
flickr@posterous.com : posts are posted to your posterous and photos are pushed to flickr
Happy posting!
Beauty shots with Audrey, Ciara and Natasha
One of the things I like a lot about being a photographer is that I don't have to do anything but pushing the buttons! Well, not quite, but a really good model and a really good makeup artist make a huge difference that makes me feel that way. One of the shoots yesterday was beauty photo shoot with a makeup artist Natasha (Media Makeup, http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=437626723). The models were Audrey and Ciara Caneega (http://ciaracaneega.webs.com/), both awesome models, as you see in the pictures below! They all did terrific job and I highly recommend them if you need a model or a makeup artist!
Natasha and I also work with wedding customers together, and as you see, a good team for creative or fashion-oriented people!
