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Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

breedm — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:39:20 -0000

Mark,
Brilliant post. I came across this searching for a way to import an RSS feed into Posterous. I'm new to the terminology, but your concepts hit the nail on the head. I now understand that I've been trying to use Posterous as both a lifestreaming aggregator and a broadcaster! Like you said, it's really only designed to broadcast, but I've been trying to get more out of it -- and it's really a pain! You said that there are many other options for lifestreaming. Which services are the best to use in your opinion? What can best capture all my activities across the web automatically, and at the same time be a service to keep me connected across my several social networks by cross-updating?
Thank you for your thoughts and clearly explaining the problem I didn't know I had!

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Makurrah — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:30:04 -0000

Just tracked down this post, which is highly lucid as well as practical. I'm currently using Posterous as a running gloss or set of marginalia on my 'macro' blog on TypePad. I appreciate your input and will track you blog going forward.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Charles — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:23:21 -0000

I need the import funcationality. Flickr is a big part of what I do. Posterous doesn't allow me the control I need when posting there. With tools like Lightroom 3 integrating so closely with Flickr that's what I'll be using to post there. As cool as posterous is, if I can't import those photos into it, it's mostly worthless to me. I can't figure out how I'd use it. Maybe they can just pick select services. No rss feeds. And if they import something like Twitter, filter out @ replies and retweets.

I'd really live it if they could import my Twitter then push the photo back out to a couple other blogs including posterous of course.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mark Krynsky — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:26:54 -0000

Ileane, thank you for the kind words and sharing the story.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Ileane — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:26:16 -0000

Mark, There are so many aspects of this new Web 2.0 that I don't think there is enough hours in the day to keep up with them all. You have done an excellent job of helping me understand Postereous and the concept of lifestreaming. And it is an added bonus for me that you mentioned aspects of Tumblr as well.
I have a Postereous blog but I am not really sure if I need it, since my primary blog is with WordPress.com. I went to Diigo (a bookmarking service that I absolutely love using to build my Personal Learning Network - PLN) to search for Postereous and found nothing. So I added this article (which I found on Google) and now it is being shared with the rest of the Diigo community.

Thank you for this very insightful post.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

bertilhatt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:13:24 -0000

Simply encourage people to upvote comments and include some collaborative filtering first. From there, you can scale up to learning algos, or use it as a base for semantic fine-tuning.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mahendra — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:58:48 -0000

Interesting. Thanks for letting me know!

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

phildunn — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:55:33 -0000

ah -good stuff. Glad to see they're working on it. Another thing, which I'll post to that thread, too.. is that some of my facebook folks have wondered wy sharein links do not launch a new browser tab. minor point IMO, but relevant to some.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mahendra — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:04:53 -0000

None that I know of, yet. I found this: http://help.sharein.com/dis...

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

phildunn — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:21:01 -0000

One drawback that I can see immediately is that you have to duplicate your efforts to post to both Twitter and Facebook. Is there a way to post to both in the settings?

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

phildunn — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:21:06 -0000

Nice - I will give this a whirl. Thanks!

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mahendra — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:04:25 -0000

phildunn,

For content sharing, you might want to check out http://sharein.com.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

phildunn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:34:17 -0000

"don't like the way it inserts itself in the middle of everything" (falzone). This is my major beef with Posterous. My process seeks to share content and conversations seamlessly. Posterous takes links I share from the bookmarklet then hyperlinks them to my Posterous feed instead of the original article. That blows, IMHO. It's a little scammy. Strange how it grabs the image, too. It makes my Facebook people jump through too many hoops to see the content, for example. I realize that a direct link would cut Posterous out of the eyeballs loop, but it doesn't suit my needs for a lot of different content sharing activities.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

getGlue — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:48:52 -0000

Glue has a very similar service as well and is currently in Beta. We're releasing some pro services in early 2010. This includes the ability to share images, audio, video and text content across all your sites and networks.

Glue publishes to: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Virb, Posterous, LiveJournal, Blogger, PureVolume, Wordpress, iLike, Tumblr, RSS, Flash Widget and Custom Javascript & PHP feeds.

We're adding new features weekly based on user feedback. So if there's something you're looking for let us know and we'll see if we can't help you out.

- Jordan

http://Glue.gs

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mark Krynsky — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:57:29 -0000

You're welcome, but I'm sure some will still have questions as it can still be a little difficult to grasp.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mark Krynsky — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:56:41 -0000

I'm not sure what you mean by end result but the first method allows importing from a limitless number of 3rd party services that offer an RSS feed while the second requires you to post everything yourself using 3 defined methods. Hope that helps.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Eric Matas — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:04:57 -0000

Great visual to clarify Posterous v Lifestream. Didn't really need another, but I did it: http://ericmatas.posterous.com is live. Oy.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mahendra — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:02:18 -0000

Thanks for clearing the confusion folks might have had with 'Posterous for Lifestreaming'.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Kingsley Joseph — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:11:03 -0000

The end result is the same. What am I missing?

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mark Krynsky — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:41:36 -0000

Thank you. There is some great content being created on Posterous. I've been enjoying it over there as well.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mark Krynsky — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:40:33 -0000

Thanks Chuck and glad you liked it. My goal was both to explain to people who understood the original Lifestreaming model of aggregating services to those considering and confused by the role Posterous played, as well as educating people that hadn't heard of Lifestreaming to understand the differences.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mark Krynsky — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:37:39 -0000

Your thoughts on the ability to filter on a per service basis bring up issues I've heard others discuss as well. Usually as it pertains to taming the firehose. I think the next phase of Lifestreaming will be the creation of intelligent algorithms that analyze the massive amount of data we are creating and add some features around it. I already could see that an intelligent recommendation engine for products and services could be built around my social graph...and even be geo specific. But one to automatically filter noise based on content determination will be a bit trickier.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mark Krynsky — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:31:13 -0000

I was hoping the visual would bring clarity. Glad you liked it.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Mark Krynsky — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:29:45 -0000

Thanks for the insight Micah. It's always interesting to hear the way others determine what content to flow to various channels and services.

Re: My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform

Chuck Falzone — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:15:53 -0000

This piece totally nails the trouble I've had in grokking Posterous. I kept hearing "it's great for lifestreaming!" and just couldn't find anything there that looked like lifestreaming to me...because I had the first model in mind.

I appreciate Posterous' features, but don't like the way it inserts itself in the middle of everything. I'm just more comfortable with the first model.