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Re: [projectvrm] Posterous must be listening!


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  • From: Alec Muffett < >
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  • Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Posterous must be listening!
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:51:10 +0100
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On 13 Jul 2010, at 14:22, Katherine Warman Kern wrote:

> Woah! The timing is somewhat cosmic, but Posterous is offering a way to
> transfer your wordpress content to Posterous posterous.com/switch/wordpress
> effective July 13 according to this article from Guardian:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jul/12/posterous-wordpress


Posterous has worked out that sucking data out of one silo into another,
relatively trivially, is a good way to enhance your uptake (though it doesn't
work for everyone, witness chi.mp) - the other example of this is the
Posterous vs: Twitpic spat:

http://blog.posterous.com/rescue-your-photos-from-twitpic
and http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/29/twitpic-posterous-lawyers/
and
http://news.softpedia.com/news/WordPress-Is-Posterous-Next-Target-147318.shtml


It's a trend.

-a


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