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| 22.12.2023 | Start-ups jostle for attention at packed SXSW | article-article-body
Start-ups attempting to stand out at the increasingly crowded South by Southwest Festival in the US have been advised to use tactics such as interactive platforms, appealing to early adopters, and having people on the g... |
| 28.08.2020 | From Francis Ford Coppola to foodtech: FTW Ventures’ Brian Frank on latest fund | San Francisco-based FTW Ventures describes itself as the “secret force” behind some big changes coming to the food system. This week it announced a new $4 million agrifoodtech fund, which has already made five investments and is targeting 1... |
| 01.08.2013 | Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan & Harj Taggar raise $39M to invest in tech startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
New York angel investors Alexis Ohanian, Garry Ta... |
| 17.02.2013 | JustMigrate Launches To Move Posterous Blogs To Tumblr Just As Posterous Announces Imminent End | Just in time for Posterous’ closure on April 30th, a service has launched to bring Posterous blogs over to rival service, Tumblr.
JustMigrate was announced the same day that Posterous unceremoniously called it quits via its blog. The servic... |
| 17.02.2013 | Posterous to Turn Off | Posterous, the San Francisco, CA-based plog publishing platform, will turn off on April 30th, 2013.
According to Founder and CEO Sachin Agarwal (read here), Posterous will focus 100% of their efforts on Twitter, which acquired the platform ... |
| 15.02.2013 | Posterous Will Shut Down On April 30th, Co-Founder Garry Tan Launches Posthaven To Save Your Sites | It was just a matter of time before Twitter shut the blogging platform Posterous down, after acquiring the company last March. The team had already been folded into the flock, but this means that nobody has to worry about pesky service inte... |
| 15.02.2013 | One year after being acquired by Twitter, Posterous shuts it all down | Posterous is kaput.
The super-simple blogging engine that evolved from blogging by email to private photo and note sharing, but never managed to compete with the high-flying Tumblr, is being shut down. The team will now focus 100 percent on... |
| 15.02.2013 | One year after being acquired by Twitter, Posterous shuts it all down | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Posterous is kaput.
The super-simple blogging eng... |
| 21.01.2013 | Twitter-Owned Posterous Is Not Accepting New Sign Ups To Blogging Platform Posterous Spaces | Posterous, the blogging platform that Twitter bought in March 2012 for an undisclosed sum, appears to have stopped taking registrations for new users for Posterous Spaces. One tipster noted to TechCrunch that this has been the case for at l... |
| 15.05.2012 | How to Share Your Business Photos Online – Discreetly | You have just returned from a corporate retreat or some other business event that was well-documented with several amateur photographers. Now you want to share all of these pictures amongst your co-workers. The challenge is that you want to... |
| 16.03.2012 | Was Posterous a ‘Consolation Prize’ When Twitter Really Wanted to Buy Tumblr? | When the news broke this Monday that Twitter was acquiring Posterous, the reaction among the tech blogs was a rather muffled meh. Posterous, the microblogging platform that was pitted again Tumblr as soon as it game out of the gate, simply ... |
| 13.03.2012 | Start-ups jostle for attention at packed SXSW | Start-ups attempting to stand out at the increasingly crowded South by Southwest Festival in the US have been advised to use tactics such as interactive platforms, appealing to early adopters, and having people on the ground.
According to C... |
| 12.03.2012 | Twitter acquires blogging platform Posterous | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Posterous, a blogging platform that embodies Tumb... |
| 12.03.2012 | Twitter buys Posterous for more sharing expertise | Four-year-old start-up becomes the sixth acquisition by Twitter in a year
Twitter has a long history of gobbling up start-ups, and today it swallowed yet another one. This time it's blogging and sharing platform Posterous. Both companies an... |
| 12.03.2012 | Posterous Finds A Home In The Arms Of Twitter | Twitter just announced that it has acquired Posterous, the Y Combinator-backed blogging and sharing platform that competed early on with Tumblr.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Posterous had raised $10.1 million in two venture rounds p... |
| 12.03.2012 | Twitter acquires lightweight blogging service Posterous | reader comments 16 with 15 posters participating
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| 12.03.2012 | Twitter Acquires Posterous, Tumblr’s Valley-Based Competitor | Twitter announced today that it has acquired Posterous, the B-List blogging platform and temporary homepage for DJ sensation Paul Phusion. Once heralded as one of the “Hottest Silicon Valley Companies,” Posterous failed to successfully diff... |
| 05.03.2012 | Hacker commandeers GitHub to prove Rails vulnerability | reader comments 78 with 55 posters participating
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| 14.01.2012 | How To Start Smart: The Five Things To Know When Approaching An Incubator | Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Jon Paris, CEO and co-founder of Astrid To-Do. Astrid participated in AngelPad and immediately raised a successful seed round from Google Ventures and other investors. His opinions are his own... |
| 21.12.2011 | Four technologies for more effective social media | Hard to believe, but Twitter is now five years old. With more than 300 million users, it’s the fastest growing medium in history.
For SMEs, the opportunities that it and other social media networks present are enormous. But there’s plenty o... |
| 08.12.2011 | Embed this tweet: This New New Twitter feature finally works | Twitter is good in (em)bed
— Jenn Van Grove (@jbruin) December9, 2011
Throw out the blackbird pie, Twitter has finally served up a new dish of embeddable tweets that is actually digestible.
Twitter released a brand spanking New New Twitter ... |
| 08.12.2011 | Embed this tweet: This New New Twitter feature finally works | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter is good in (em)bed
— Jenn Van Grove (@jbr... |
| 18.11.2011 | Customer service company UserVoice gets $1M funding | UserVoice helps companies effectively interact with their customers, offers tiered service plans
UserVoice, a startup that provides customer service solutions for businesses and organizations, announced a $1 million equity funding Friday, b... |
| 19.09.2011 | Parsing the TechCrunch Burn Book: Reactions to Paul Carr’s Resignation Bomb | *Refresh, refresh, refresh.*
Those of you who hopped on a plane without Wifi Friday evening can be forgiven for not keeping track of what AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher described as “pure twaddle wrapped in ridonkulous grandstanding.” First came... |
| 17.09.2011 | The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes From TC Disrupt SF | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here are my thematic takeaways from this yea... |
| 16.09.2011 | Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Program: Posterous Raises $5 Million | Um, oh hey guys, what’s up? Nothing much over on my side, except that I’d really like a Diet Coke. Also, I’m hearing that nascent photo sharing app née blogging platform Posterous is raising some money. So yeah that’s what’s up over here in... |
| 12.09.2011 | Posterous jumps from blogging to private sharing with “Spaces” app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Startup Posterous is doing a bit of a start-over today. Founded in 2008 as a simple blogging via email service, Posterous is restructur... |
| 09.09.2011 | Tumblr Surpasses 10 Billion Posts | Microblogging and curation platform Tumblr reached its 10 billionth post today, marking another milestone for the hip and ever-growing service.
The service currently hosts over 28 million blogs, which are used to publish tens of millions of... |
| 31.08.2011 | Impermium Launches Social Spam Index; Finds That Up To 40 Percent Of Online IDs Are Fake | In June, we covered the launch of Impermium, a young startup aimed at zapping the Internet’s social spam wherever it hides. Not only is the startup bringing the heat to user generated spam like spammy comments, hacked accounts, and fraudule... |
| 24.08.2011 | Jux Reinvents The Blog as a Full-Screen Experience | Today, a NYC-based startup called Jux has launched a personal publishing platform that kicks a field goal right over the heads of Tumblr and the post-blogging crowd. It’s a big, beautiful, dynamic tool full of splashy images and sharp Web f... |
| 11.08.2011 | Y Combinator’s 7th Annual Startup School Set For October | Y Combinator has just unveiled the dates and times of its 7th Annual Startup School; 2011’s event will take place on October 29th at Stanford University, where hundreds will gather to listen to talks about entrepreneurship and innovation by... |
| 25.07.2011 | Mashery Unveils Next Generation of API Documentation | San Francisco, CA, July 25, 2011—Mashery, the world's leading provider of API management and strategy services, today announced Mashery I/O Docs, a new tool that speeds developer activation and shortens development cycles by leveraging beau... |
| 05.07.2011 | Congratulations @BackType! | I’m pleased to announce that K9 Ventures’ portfolio company BackType (@BackType) has been acquired by Twitter. Huge congratulations to the founding team of Christopher Golda (@golda) and Michael Montano (@michaelmontano)!
I was first intro... |
| 27.06.2011 | Former Yahoo Spam Ninjas Unveil Impermium | The world is getting a first look at Impermium, a new startup that aims to help sites fight growing user generated spam – spammy comments, hacked accounts and (my personal favorite) fraudulent registrations.
Sounds like a useful service. An... |
| 23.06.2011 | Ask Ars: which image services might commercialize my photos? | reader comments 29 with 27 posters participating
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In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and o... |
| 13.06.2011 | Y Combinator Brings On Alumni To Be "Part Time Partners" | Y Combinator has just announced its “Part Time Partner” program, which will bring in former YC alumni to mentor the most recent cohort of startups, like regular partners, but only 1/5 of the time.
Joining the prestigious ranks of Paul Graha... |
| 13.04.2011 | TC Cribs: Inside The Snuggified Home Of Posterous | It’s time for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this week we’re showcasing the home of one of the easiest-to-use blogging platforms around: Posterous, the service that lets you turn an email into a blog post (among other things).
As you’ll see... |
| 07.04.2011 | Rome2Rio: Travel Directions by Plane, Train & Automobile | A quick little experiment for you if you haven’t tried this before: Go to Google Maps and ask it for directions from San Francisco, CA to Beijing, China. Now, you wouldn’t imagine any other way than to hop on a plane, right? Instead, Google... |
| 28.03.2011 | Zapd Creates Themed Websites Right From Your Phone | Tumblr and Posterous showed the world that making blogging simpler makes it more accessible. Both make also make it really easy to publish from your phone. Now Zapd, a new service from Seattle startup Pressplane, wants to take it one step f... |
| 27.03.2011 | Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …) | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable
Blogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back la... |
| 10.03.2011 | Posterous Joins The SXSW Pile On With Posterous Events For iPhone | Because you ain’t nobody unless you have a special version of your app for SXSW, Posterous has today released its own effort with Posterous Events, a which allows people at a massive event like SXSW or even something as humble as a family p... |
| 06.03.2011 | LaunchRock Wants to Give A Boost to Startups Launching at SXSW | The anticipation in the tech world is palpable, as SXSW Interactive kicks off at the end of the week. We expect to see lots of startups launch over the course of the event, and LaunchRock, the creator of viral launch pages for startups is p... |
| 02.03.2011 | Posterous 2.0 Is A Group Sharing App With A Website Attached | Simple blogging service Posterous is taking its recently launched Posterous Groups function mobile this morning with the release of the Posterous 2.0 Android and iPhone apps. Along with the app’s previous functionality (including universal ... |
| 17.01.2011 | Tumblr Is So Crushing Posterous, It’s Not Even Funny Anymore | Garry Tan, the co-founder of Tumblr’s trash-talking competitor Posterous, has jumped ship.
Posterous, a blogging platform similar to Tumblr, has failed to gain traction with mainstream users the way Tumblr has. Compete.com says Tumblr now g... |
| 16.01.2011 | The Thin Wedge Of Quora | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. This is the second in a series of essays on Quora that he will post on TechCrunch. Shah is based in Palo Alto and... |
| 14.01.2011 | Posterous Cofounder Garry Tan Steps Down, Heads To Y Combinator | Garry Tan, one of the cofounders of easy-to-use blogging service Posterous, is moving on from the company. Tan will be leaving to take a position at Y Combinator, where he will serve as a designer in residence. Posterous doesn’t put much we... |
| 04.01.2011 | Going private in 2011 | If there was one Internet sensation in 2010 that touched on a bigger trend, it was the simple-yet-compelling offering of mobile photo sharing apps like Instagram. Because photos know no language barrier and smartphones have hit an inflectio... |
| 15.12.2010 | Posterous Launches Posterous Groups, A Simple Discussion Tool, And Android App | Simple blogging platform Posterous has always been about email and co-founders Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan have taken the idea of an email list one step further and developed Posterous Groups. Groups, an easier way to hold group discussion... |
| 24.11.2010 | Top Trends of 2010: The Rise of Tumblr, Posterous & Light Blogging | One of the big themes of 2010 has been the increased simplicity of posting content to the Web. Whether it’s Facebooking with your family, tweeting with your online buddies, or sharing a favorite video, photo or quote on Tumblr. All of these... |
| 14.11.2010 | How Email Apps Will Help You Learn To Love Your Inbox Again | Email has taken over our lives, and most of us hate it. But a new generation of email apps are changing how we interact with the inbox, and on Monday Facebook might even join the party. The inbox of the future is going to look a lot more li... |
| 22.10.2010 | CoverPad For The iPad Makes Your Blog Feel Like Flipboard | PadPressed, the WordPress plugin that makes your blog feel like an iPad app when accessed from a native browser, today launches its CoverPad, which takes the “browser to iPad app” concept one iteration further and recreates the paginated fe... |
| 13.10.2010 | New Apps for Your Smartphone, October Edition | There are some 225,000 mobile applications for the iPhone now and 70,000 for Android, so every so often we like to highlight a few that have caught our attention. This latest edition of our favorite smartphone apps includes a few in testing... |
| 12.10.2010 | Posterous iPhone App Will Make You Finally Get A Posterous | At least it did me. Touted by co-founder Sachin Agarwal as a one stop shop for all your sharing needs, the Posterous app (now available in the App store) is extremely intuitive to use, and you don’t even need a Posterous to use it to start ... |
| 12.10.2010 | Posterous Gets an iPhone App | Posterous, the minimalist blogging platform, may have allowed users to post to their blogs via email, or even the specially-formatted Posterous for mobile devices, but now it’s gone that one extra step. Posterous for the iPhone is here, all... |
| 27.09.2010 | There Are Stories Out There On Twitter, Flickr, YouTube — Build Them With Storify | The main reason I love services like Tumblr and Posterous is that they make personal blogging simple. While you certainly still can write long-winded pieces about whatever you want, you can also just use a bookmarklet or email to send in in... |
| 22.09.2010 | NPR Looks to Engage New Audiences On Tumblr | Over the last several months we have mentioned how minimalist micro-blogging service Tumblr has attracted traditional media outlets. The New York-based startup has begun providing publisher-friendly features and even managed to snag former ... |
| 20.09.2010 | Microblogging Wars Escalate: Posterous Claims Tumblr Blocks Its Autopost Feature | Posterous users can automatically push content posted to their blogs onto other platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr and so on. Up until recently, people could even post content like text, pictures and videos to their Post... |
| 18.09.2010 | Update: Should I Move my Blog to Tumblr? Apparently not. | The results are in, and as befits any good crowd-sourcer, I wanted to share them.
Yesterday I asked TechCrunch readers for some advice. Having quit Twitter, I’m looking for a new blogging platform that will allow me to continue writing long... |
| 17.09.2010 | Tumblr flies past Posterous in lite-blogging race | Tumblr and Posterous both provide users with the ability to blog without all that much effort. But as similar as the two “light blogging” platforms are, Tumblr is the favorite among casual members of the blogosphere, according to traffic da... |
| 09.09.2010 | TweetDeck Adds Posterous Pics, T.co Support & More | Multi-column, multi-platform social network client TweetDeck has issued an update that fixes a few bugs and adds “some small, but important, new features”. We’re talking support for Twitter’s t.co URL shortener, uploading pics to Posterous ... |
| 07.09.2010 | Blog platform Tumblr’s soaring traffic brings growing pains | Tumblr, a social media network made up of millions of personal and business blogs, is seeing massive traffic growth, but is undergoing equally big growing pains.
Activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketed over the first half of the... |
| 25.08.2010 | Wannabe angels: Watch the video of every speech from AngelConf | Incubator Y Combinator held its second AngelConf last month, where well-known investors spoke to an audience of prospective angels. If you weren’t able to make it in-person, and you didn’t want to watch the giant chunk of unedited video on ... |
| 02.08.2010 | iPad Reader Pulse Teams Up With Posterous To Make You A News Aggregator | Alphonso Labs‘ Pulse app for the iPad provides a beautiful way to read your favorite feeds. Unfortunately, compared to the newer entry Flipboard, it’s not very socially personalized. An update tonight hopes to change that.
Pulse is teaming ... |
| 22.07.2010 | MixPanel Offers Realtime iPhone Analytics That Probably Won't Piss Off Apple | Perhaps you recall back in June when Apple CEO Steve Jobs laid the smack down on mobile analytics firm Flurry. He noted they were “pissing us off” because they were collecting device data about Apple’s products. Specifically, Jobs obviously... |
| 20.07.2010 | Flipboard, New “Social” iPad Magazine will be Powered by Semantic Data | The stealthy Kleiner Perkins-backed startup called Flipboard has now been revealed to be, as some suspected, a social application for the iPad. The new Flipboard iPad app bills itself as a “social magazine” – that is, one which aggregates s... |
| 13.07.2010 | As Campaign Ends, Was Calling Out “Dying Platforms” Good for Posterous? | San Francisco-based micro-blogging service Posterous launched a marketing campaign back in June that raised a few eyebrows across the Web for its apparently brazen approach. The company has been rolling out new tools since the beginning of ... |
| 12.07.2010 | 'Make it simple, stupid' should be the motto for the mobile Web | Ian Betteridge is spot on with today's post: "The era of simplified computing." Simpler defines the current PC market. Simplest defines the next computing paradigm -- anytime, anywhere, on anything, for which the cloud-connected m... |
| 12.07.2010 | Competition for Flickr: Snapfish buys Motionbox, Posterous courts Flickr users | Snapfish, the photo sharing and printing site from Hewlett Packard, announced today that they’ve acquired the Motionbox video platform, allowing Snapfish to expand its video offering. Current Motionbox users will have their content migrated... |
| 05.07.2010 | Posterous Growing At More Than 700 Percent a Year | Somewhere in between full blogging platforms like WordPress and the 140-character limit of Twitter, true microblogging sites like Tumblr and Posterous are taking off. I call these true microblogging sites because they are designed for quick... |
| 30.06.2010 | "Lawyers Are Expensive. We Can Be Friends." (@Posterous To @TwitPic) | As you may have read yesterday, TwitPic and Posterous are currently in a row after the latter introduced a “Rescue your photos from TwitPic” tool that provides users with a one-click way to import TwitPic photos over to their Posterous blog... |
| 29.06.2010 | Twitpic Blocks Posterous' Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers | Well that didn’t take long. Halfway into their big 15 importers in 15 days campaign, Posterous has managed to make one of their competitors very angry. Twitpic is so angry, in fact, that they’re blocking the service and threatening legal ac... |
| 24.06.2010 | Posterous and Ambition: A Lesson for Startups? | The tech industry is full of battles – epic and otherwise – between companies that position themselves (or are positioned by others, perhaps) as enemies: Apple versus Microsoft. Google versus Microsoft.
Having a target like this isn’t a bad... |
| 22.06.2010 | Posterous Targets Ning In Massive Switching Campaign. Who Is Next? | We’re big fans of easy-to-use blogging platform Posterous, which has seen fast growth, revenue and impressive funding since its launch in 2008. Over the past six months Posterous has steadily added nearly a dozen innovative features to its ... |
| 04.06.2010 | Posterous Adds 'Pages', Enables 'About Me' Section You've Always Wanted | Easy-to-use blogging platform Posterous has just launched a key new feature: Pages. No, the feature doesn’t sound sexy in the slightest — it allows you to create static webpages in addition to your main Posterous blog. But it finally allows... |
| 28.05.2010 | What Will Peter Pham Do Next? | Peter Pham was the 5th employee hired at photo sharing site Photobucket. 18 months later the then giant site was acquired by Fox Interactive Media for a reported $300 million. Then Pham joined the Boards of Advisors of a number of high-prof... |
| 25.05.2010 | To compete with Google, Apple has to make MobileMe free | Editor’s note: Sachin Agarwal is cofounder and chief executive of simple blogging startup Posterous. He first published this article on his personal blog.
When Google announced the first Android phones, I was not impressed. The hardware was... |
| 21.05.2010 | Y Combinator Raises Over $8M to Expand Incubator Membership | Silicon Valley-based startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) announced today that is has raised $8.25 million with which it plans to provide funding to a larger group of startups this summer. Leading the funding was Sequoia Capital along with s... |
| 17.05.2010 | Surprise: Traditional Blogging Platforms Still Reign Supreme | AltHouse, Citizen WElls, Economist’s View: These are some of the most popular blogs in the world and their streams of daily posts get hundreds of legitimate comments. They are published on Blogspot, WordPress and Typepad, respectively. A re... |
| 04.05.2010 | Ning reversal: will remain free for teachers | Unnamed educational company to sponsor educator-founded networks.
In mid April, Ning made the controversial announcement that it was shutting down all free networks, a move that sparked considerable punditry about the perils of freemium ser... |
| 30.04.2010 | Posterous Starts Automatically Inserting Affiliate Links Into Sites, Forgets To Tell Users | We’ve been tracking super-simple publishing service Posterous for quite a while now, and for the most part they’ve turned us into big fans. Unfortunately, they’ve just committed a fairly serious blunder. In a post earlier today, one Postero... |
| 09.04.2010 | Posterous Sheds Its Minimalist Origins | Posterous, one of our favorite light blogging services, started out as a very minimalist blogging and media sharing platform. In its earliest days, the only way to actually post a story to Posterous was by email. Today, however, Posterous a... |
| 31.03.2010 | Cloudkick Broadens its Scope: Now Monitors the Datacenter | Cloudkick is a cloud monitoring start-up that helps system admins manage cloud servers. Today, the company announced it is getting physical, bringing its cloud monitoring capabilities to internally hosted servers and virtual machines.
The c... |
| 23.03.2010 | Tumblr Rolls Out Make Money Plan Part 2: Beautiful Themes | Earlier this month, Tumblr rolled out its first attempt at making money: a small ($9) fee to make your blog featured in a directory of blogs. Tomorrow, the service is officially rolling out its second revenue generator: premium themes.
The ... |
| 08.03.2010 | Posterous Raises $4.4M | Posterous, a San Francisco, CA-based blog publishing platform, has raised $4.4m in a Series A funding.
The round was co-led by Redpoint Ventures and Trinity Ventures, with participation from SV Angel, Founder Collective, Lowercase Capital, ... |
| 05.03.2010 | Posterous (S08) Raises $4.4 Million | San Francisco based Posterous, a fast growing publishing platform, has taken a $4.4 million investment from Redpoint Ventures. Partner Satish Dharmaraj, who is also an individual investor in Posterous, led the round and joins the company’s ... |
| 05.03.2010 | Redpoint Invests $4.4 Million In Fast Growing Posterous | San Francisco based Posterous, a fast growing publishing platform, has taken a $4.4 million investment from Redpoint Ventures. Partner Satish Dharmaraj, who is also an individual investor in Posterous, led the round and joins the company’s ... |
| 05.03.2010 | Simple blogging startup Posterous raises $4.4M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 05.03.2010 | Simple blogging startup Posterous raises $4.4M | Posterous, a company that wants to make it super-easy for anyone to publish their own blog, has raised $4.4 million in its first round of institutional funding.
The San Francisco company’s big selling point is its simplicity — just send an ... |
| 05.03.2010 | Blogging platform Posterous pulls in $4.4M | With new funding from Redpoint Ventures, others, Posterous wants to be the Google of Web posting
Blogging platform Posterous has raised a $4.4 million Series A round of funding from Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and a few angel inves... |
| 24.01.2010 | Microsoft Office is obsolete, or soon will be | This month's Office 2010 retail pricing announcement and ongoing discounts for Office 2007 Home and Student are Microsoft's tacit acknowledgment that the productivity suite isn't as valuable as it once was. Office is tracking a course of un... |
| 21.01.2010 | Posterous Turns Post.ly Into A New Media Sharing Service For Twitter | Dead-simple blogging and content distribution service Posterous has long used the URL post.ly as a custom branded Web address for blog posts hosted on its platform. Today, the startup is announcing that it has turned Post.ly into a destinat... |
| 21.01.2010 | 5 o’clock round-up: YouTube profits soon, EA sticks with Tiger, Twitter phases in new suggested users | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter retools the maligned suggested users list... |
| 21.01.2010 | 5 o’clock round-up: YouTube profits soon, EA sticks with Tiger, Twitter phases in new suggested users | Twitter retools the maligned suggested users list: Twitter is phasing in a new way of finding interesting accounts for new users to follow. If you join the site today, Twitter will suggest users for you to follow that the company has picked... |
| 07.01.2010 | TXT.IO Takes Minimalist Microblogging to the Extreme | Once upon a time, microblogging was all about simplicity. Today, even services like Posterous that started out as very simple and easy-to-use tools have begun to add more and more features. Microblogging, however, can’t get much simpler tha... |
| 04.01.2010 | Jason Calacanis' Top Tech Products (And A Political Rant) | Jason Calacanis lists his own favorite tech products after reading ours. His list, which was sent out to his mailing list earlier today, is below. Along with one heck of a political rant about the middle east and energy policy, which we hav... |
| 01.01.2010 | 2010: My Fifth Annual List Of The Tech Products I Love And Use Every Day | It’s time for my annual list of technology products that I love and use every day. This is the (wow) fifth year I’ve done this. Here are my previous lists: 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006. The scope of the list has changed over time. In 2006 it w... |
| 29.12.2009 | The Era of Big Search is Over: Why 2010 Will Be All About Content | The era of the all-powerful search engine is waning. In its place, the power of the publisher and the content provider is rising again, just like it did in the early 19th century -- only the players will be very different.
Back when "W... |
| 05.12.2009 | Advertising is the wrong model for the open Web | Some Betanews readers made such excellent comments to yesterday's post, "Can there be a free Web if no one makes money?," I will respond to some of them with another post rather than piecemeal in comments. The current advertising ... |
| 03.12.2009 | Topikality delivers new tool for digging up the online content you want | The Internet has broken longstanding barriers, allowing more and more people to produce content. But thanks to all those extra people becoming publishers, journalists, reporters and writers, there’s so much information out there that it’s h... |
| 01.12.2009 | Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2009 | Every year at ReadWriteWeb, we look at hundreds of new web apps aimed at everyday users. Occasionally, we come across a service that stands out from the pack because it offers a novel solution, disrupts the way incumbent market leaders do b... |
