Re: [projectvrm] Posterous must be listening!

[Alan Patrick < >]

On 13/07/2010 14:51, Alec Muffett wrote:
> 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.

Yup - if you can't beat 'em, suck their data out.............