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Websiteposterous.com
Blogblog.posterous.com
CategoryWeb
Emailhelp@posterous.com
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Founded5/08

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[map] Boston, USA

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Seed, 5/08
$15k

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Posterous

Posterous is a Y Combinator startup that was founded in mid 2008. It’s a dead simple web publishing platform via email. Text and files can be uploaded to the site via email.

Users are not required to create an account to use Posterous. To start, users simply email content to post@posterous.com and a “blog” is autocreated and sent back to the user. Registered users can tailor the blog URL, post via the website, subscribe to other users.

Posterous embeds MP3s and other media into a player and turns images into image galleries. PDFs and other office documents are displayed in a Scribd embedded widget.

Posterous quietly launched to close friends in early May. The company officially went into beta in late June 2008.

Comments

Ronan - June 29, 2008 at 6:59am
Simplicity in design and protocol is king and this delivery method will be very successful I believe. The days of cluttered mayhem design that is myspace will be history. I hope!
Ravi Karandeekar - June 28, 2008 at 5:26pm
Congrats! Blogging via email is simply a great idea. Very useful when you are on mobile. Particularly, when you are in Pune, India and you blog on Pune real estate market news.

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