What Is Posterous?

Introducing Posterous:

Posterous debuted in 2008 with a simple purpose - to make it easy for people to blog via email. The user interface is extremely easy to learn, and even the complete blogging novice can join the blogosphere within minutes using Posterous.
With Posterous, you can create your own space online and publish content to it via an online web editor tool, via your mobile device, or via an email message. It's perfect for short posts, images, and video, and visitors can submit comments to your posts just as they can with other blogging applications like WordPress, Blogger and TypePad.

More Posterous Features:

You can use your own domain, choose from dozens of templates to create your blog's design, and set up your blog as public or private. Thanks to built-in tools, you can automatically publish your posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, and approximately 20 other social sites. You can also email your posts through a subscriber tool.

Who Is Using Posterous?:

Over 12 million people use Posterous, and new features are added all the time which makes it a more robust blogging tool. You can see an example of a Posterous blog by visiting the San Francisco BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Posterous blog.

Is Posterous Right for You?:

If you want a very simple blog that is incredibly easy to publish content to when you're on the go, then Posterous is a great option. If you're looking for a tool that gives you a lot of customization options without high-level technical knowledge, then you'd be better off using a more robust tool like WordPress or Blogger. Posterous is a bit more like a traditional blogging application than a tool like Tumblr, but it's not going to give you the full spectrum of features that you need if you are a power blogger or want to create a feature-rich blog for your business.