Thats very cool! Great idea!

This is really cool. I can’t wait for the post to other blogging plateforms feature.

That was probably the easiest user interaction ive encountered in the last year. So simple my parents could do it.

I suppose this does deliver the ultimate in convenience. However, I’m not sold, and I’m not sure why people would choose this over their own blogging domain.

I dont know which one will be the more powerful
According to http://www.themostpowerfulcompany.com it will maybe be one of them

Turning email into a blogging platform is genius because it bridges the blogging gap for old mobile devices that only have wap.

This is the best idea I’ve seen on TC in a long, long, long time.

I believe that moblog links wants to be http://www.mobog.com

Ok the setup is as easy as possible. But once set up why is it any better than bloggers mail to posting system?? Not bashing just asking?

“and we’ll give a free TechCrunch Tshirt to the first person who manages to do a fake post on our Posterous blog”

Are we supposed to guess the email you used?

We’d need at least that info, then you could simply use the PHP mail() function to do it.

Hmmm, I’ve been able to email new blog posts to my Blogger site for a while now. I don’t understand how this service is different…?

I like the idea.

- http://easysummermoney.blogspot.com/

zindex of the div on the lightbox is wrong. Their audio player is showing over the picture lightbox when you click to enlarge the picture.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8.....6/sizes/o/

Hey Mike,

I just posted as you - all it took was a Google search on “send fake email” and a quick Web form.

It’s a very, very cool service but I’d never use it unless it had some kind of challenge/response system or unless I was using a unique email address unknown to others.

Great photo of the dog, BTW.

@Codytalks @adam The email reply to comments is unique.

The site is definitely cool and love the concept - seems like the natural progression for mobile microblogging/etc. to be inked in with email. I haven’t tried the service yet so I might just be crying wolf, but the first thing that comes to mind is what happens with email spoofing? Mike’s concerns are valid and at the very least they should check up on email forwarding and verify headers with the original box (reply if you are ____) type of deal.

While other services might include an email to blog option, none have the rich parsing capabilities as ours. We don’t just post your email as is. We parse through it and turn it in the most web appropriate format possible.

So you get embedded flash players, javascript image galleries, scribd document viewers, and more just by emailing attachments and letting us do the work

How do you edit a post?

Hey - we invented this about 5 years ago at http://blog.mailasail.com

There isn’t too much info up there on how it works, but basically you can email in many types of content and the software tries to make something pretty out of it.

Email editors sure arent the best way to write HTML, but they are quite a lot better than most web based editors (especially when it comes to adding media to the page)

You guys can check out http://www.messagedance.com

It’s funded by X Combinator

(Ok funding part is a joke)

@16, It’s not very hard, you pull the emails out of /var/mail/postblogentry
Put it in MySQL, then you can use PHP to parse it.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/f.....ucture.php

Or you can simply fetch it from pop or smtp with imap_open then use PHP imap to parse it. Once you have the MIME types for the content, you simply store it on the disk and use a free flash MP3 or video player.

Still, for 15k, you guys did a nice job. I wouldn’t do all that work for 15k.
You should resell it as a script and make an installer and stuff.

Please enable the middle mouse click to launch a new tab kthxbye

@Dave… damn you! I spent the last half an hour trying to guess the email Mike used to sign up with. What was it?

@Sachin I’m loving this service - tomorrow I plan to essentially liveblog a Modest Mouse show using posterous. This is definitely the fastest/easiest way to post photos taken with an iPhone.

Great idea.

But…

How can I hook this up to use my own domain name?

How do I post from multiple email accounts? Blackberry during the day, Verizon sometimes, gmail other times, etc.

How would a blogger make money from this? Will you be able to place adsense or something similar in the future?

Can you customize the layout at all?

Loads of potential…

Mine’s even simpler. Type this into your address bar: about:blank

ok, Dave’s the winner. Well done. For those of you who had trouble figuring out my email address, the easiest way is via our about page.

I LOVE IT!

@Robert

How can I hook this up to use my own domain name?

GT: This is coming very soon!

How do I post from multiple email accounts? Blackberry during the day, Verizon sometimes, gmail other times, etc.

GT: This is supported right now!

How would a blogger make money from this? Will you be able to place adsense or something similar in the future?

GT: We absolutely want to do this. It’s on the list for certain.

Can you customize the layout at all?

GT: This is also on the list.

Just a quick explanation of why we launched when we did. Paul Graham has always been a huge proponent of us launching early. The idea is that you get it out to as many people as you can, be immediately useful, and improve as quickly as you can.

We want to roll out new features basically every few days. We know there’s a lot on the list, but we are moving fast to fill the gaps. Thanks for the feedback and the support.

..isn’t Tumblr just two people also?

Hi Dave,

Congratulations on successfully spoofing an email and posting to Arrington’s blog!

We want to let everyone know that security and email spoofing is a very serious concern of ours and we will do everything we can to prevent it. There were hundreds of attempts at spoofing the blog, and only 2 were successful (both using the same method).

We have already discovered the issue that allowed the spoofing to occur and it has been patched.

Thanks for trying Posterous and please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions by email help@posterous.com.

We’d especially like to thank the dude from Norway who spammed us with over 1000 emails! We think he’s the post leader. Please stop now :)

Garry Tan,

Thank you for answering all of my questions and so quickly.

One more question…

Will it cost money to use my own domain name? (There’s another business model for you…)

Thanks!

Posterous was able to get MA’s attention in simplicity. Great job on that posterous team.

MessageDance has been doing this for more than 8 months. Unfortunately you do not get mentioned or get covered in TC if you are not funded or under reputed name like Y-Combinator. Oh well, this comment is not for that, but this one is to let people know MessageDance does social media messaging via email. Also people who love their WordPress or Blogger blog, we keep them there and send blog posts via email to their WP/Blogger blog along with all the attachments in the email as Blog attachments. Bloggers get more traffic to their existing site plus we send copy to all their social destinations (support on 10 + social media destinations).

http://www.messagedance.com/help/blogpost.html

Sweet service, very easy to use!

..that is simply(drumroll plse)…preposterous! folks at blogger et al must be banging their heads about now.

simply beautiful..the ultimate user experience next to a direct connection to my skull.

…gives new meaning to online diary, ‘life-streaming’ or whatever the hell all the cool kids call it.

Does this not seem like a splogger’s dream come true?

Rejesh, Before you get your panties in a bunch:

-MessageDance requires username/ password! I’ve said this before (and it’s better to be blunt in the long run, you don’t want to fail): Fuck you

-MessageDance doesn’t allow for inline embeds other than pictures (video, audio)

-MessageDance doesn’t host anything

P.S. Go get some funding and get some PR representation (would you rather have 100% of $10,000, or 85% of $2,000?)

Rajesh*

@Rajesh

Uhm, MessageDance does not get written about on here because it looks like something created by a blind 7 year old coding with his non-dominant hand in QBasic. Show some respect and don’t even mention that bushleaguery alongside something pretty tight like Posterous. Posterous is playing Go, MessageDance is playing Go Fish.

I should get a drunken time out, but just to clarify:

username/ password’s of other accounts*
85% of $200,000?*

Posterous is the perfect tool for people who are still afraid of the internet. My mother or grandmother will be able to put a website or blog online now thanks to them. They are definitely in a great market at the right time.

can’t they put a simple password on the subject

Subject: mypass|my subject
Body: mypost

=>

Post
My subject
my post

this would cut spam

Simple is beautiful - just plain awesome.

spoofing blog posts, though it was Mike’s challenge isn’t going to be a common problem with this service.

As soon as somebody registers a gmail or yahoo mail address, from then on they could simply check the sender IP against a list of yahoo and google SMTP servers.

That would be an obvious first thing to do.

That being said I don’t think that it will be a large problem. The problem with this service is that it simply isn’t cool.
Why do people visit social networking websites to get mail when they can simply use an email client?

Because it’s cool there. They would rather receive an email telling them they have new mail and to take 10 extra steps to read it then to do something uncool and email directly or do something that would resemble an …. ICK….mailing list.

Chris, You simply do not understand younger users. They don’t check their email, they just go to the SN. Those older folks that do, disregard the email until they have time to go to the SN.

I like the idea. As soon as I read the post, I was like, “hey, I can just right click, send link, add a quick note and post pages I’m browsing in an instant.

I’ll be using this.

@39 I’d like to know why you’re so critical of the MessageDance website. The UI doesn’t look that bad. I expected some old school Geocities based upon your description, but found a respectable website. How about you post some of your work for us to critique..

frank church wears a helmet.

jk frank

@Robert, comment 31

Free. Can’t promise forever, of course, but we’re definitely all about making a service we ourselves would love to use. One of those aspects is just being good to our users and being fair.