Posterous – if you haven’t heard of Posterous, you’re missing out on a great thing; especially if you have a blog or use Facebook and Twitter.
The brains behind Posterous were fatigued by constantly logging in and out of Facebook, Twitter, and the multiple different blog services – when all they wanted was to share something: a blog post, a picture, a video clip.
They dreamt of a world where achieving this is as easy as sending an email – and we are now living in that dreamworld, it’s called Posterous.
Seriously, it’s almost too good to be true. It’s as simple as composing an email, pushing send, and it landing wherever you want it to land – in your blog, Facebook, or Twitter.
An example:
Posterous identifies you with your email address, which means that it will post to your corresponding blog, Facebook, or Twitter account.
Email, you still have a place in our hearts, and you can teach a 40 year old dog new tricks – thanks Posterous!
I found this newsletter on CampaignMonitor. At first I scrolled past it, but then I had to go back and have a better look at it.
As you can see, they’ve chosen a picture for their background, and very likely that picture will be blocked by some email client somewhere along the line. But to avoid a blocked picture rendering the newsletter completely useless, they’ve created little boxes filled with text only. The pictures in fact do not load even in the latest version of Outlook, but I still have a soft spot for this letter because they’ve adjusted to those who choose to block pictures. But aside from everything else, I like the design — black and white with a splash of color in the center — it feels 3D-ish, don’t you think?
Because of the great intuitive design, I give them four out of five hearts!
I like this email from Google, it’s very transparent. It’s always nice to know what’s happening behind the scenes. Frankly, I had no idea my phone was relaying my exact location in the background – and I must say, I’m a little surprised at how exact it really is. I wonder how many of us are wandering around right now, oblivious to how much of a blabbermouth our cell phone is..
So it begins! The education of our email loving students! So far, so great. There will be six more days of school before the grand finale at the Nordic eCommerce Summit in Stockholm Waterfront in the beginning of May.
Email was obviously on the menu for the first few days. Psst… email providers… how about we take better care of our ambitious email loving students? What do you say? Shame-shame on you!
Anyways… Here are some pictures from my lecture and the tasty dinner we cooked up that night (the food was delicious, by the way).
Thank you for two very, very inspiring days, all of you!
Posterous – if you haven’t heard of Posterous, you’re missing out on a great thing; especially if you have a blog or use Facebook and Twitter.
