Minimalist blogging service Posterous launched their first iPhone app today, called PicPosterous, that aims to simplify real-time photo sharing using their sleek ‘no-signup-required ‘ mini-blogging service.
Posterous ‘ main selling point is that no signup or account is needed; you just post something and then use the URL provided. Though, you can sign up for much more functionality, and even use your own custom domain name.
Traditionally, you would post content to Posterous by sending an email to post@posterous.com with whatever you wanted to post attached. If you attached more than one picture, Posterous would display all the pictures in a nifty album, as shown in this gallery on my blog.
If you attached a video file from the iPhone 3GS, Posterous would encode it to H.264 format and embed it on the website using the HTML5 spec, which means that the video will playback in Mobile Safari “ a real slick feature!
But what if you wanted to post an album of several pictures, taken over the course of a day, or a weekend, etc.? Previously, you ‘d have to wait until you ‘d taken all the pictures you wanted to post, and then create your post. Once the post was created, there was no way to add additional pictures later.
Now, using their PicPosterous app, you can post your pictures as you take them, and the app will update the existing post with additional pictures. This means you can share your pictures on Posterous as you take them, providing a real-time sharing experience, without having to create a bunch of separate posts for each batch of images.
The app allows you to set the Album ‘s name (post title), select whether the album will be private or not (hidden from view and only accessible via secret URL), and whether Posterous will auto-post to additional services.
One of Posterous ‘ really amazing features is they provide a very easy way to immediately cross-post your content across any number of social sharing sites (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, etc.). With one quick post to Posterous, your pictures can be distributed to all your web sites and profiles.
If you ‘re looking for a quick and easy way to share pictures in real-time while on the go, or if you currently use the Posterous platform for your blog, I ‘d strongly suggest you take a long gander at PicPosterous and try it out for yourself. The app is free, the service is free, and the development of the service is very active and the support is responsive and friendly.
You can find PicPosterous on the iPhone App Store (link), and visit Posterous to set up your own personal Posterous site.
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