Definitely deserves props for persistence and constant iteration. Perhaps they have cracked the secret of getting TechCrunch coverage: Just keep changing your name!
If I were competing with vid.ly, bit.ly or any of the other ly's, I think my main strategy would be to post material guaranteed to offend Libyan national pride without offending American sensibilities, and see if I could provoke a ruckus. The reliance on geopolitically shaky TLDs is bound to bite someone eventually.
Why would anyone use them instead of Posterous? Posterous is dead simple, allows me to share all media, and autoposts way more places. It's basically a direct subset of Posterous's features.
let me tell you a story. i wanted to post some images and videos of a new game i was playing. i looked at tumblr and posterous, two platforms i'd never used before. i've also never uploaded images or videos before, either.
i chose tumblr because it looked cooler... posterous is plain and the managing of posts and accounts--at least through their website--is confusing as hell. i still don't know how to delete blogs or my account, and it always took me a handful of extra clicks to figure out how to post a new entry.
then i wanted to start a development blog for my startup. i stuck to posterous this time, the blog being more of a writing thing, and because tumblr doesn't have comments out of the box (i've since hooked up disqus to salamanderwrestling).
i'm not comfortable using email to make posts. what i want is a powerful markup language (read: pretty prints code) with elegant markup (read: not html).
posterous just didn't cut it for me. things looked...plain and yellow...and i couldn't save drafts. i'd be happy to use emacs to write markup blog posts, but because posterous only allows rich text or html i have to use their web editor.
i switched to wordpress while writing my second post. wordpress makes me feel safe and comfortable. my posts are autosaved. i can upload images. it has themes.
each platform has its niche. here are some reasons why someone wouldn't use posterous (i really tried, though. i'm still rooting for you guys.)
Leo Laporte is going around shooting people using the word twit? Wow, he sure lucked out with the advent of Twitter and its lexicon.
Edit: Leo Laporte actually has rights to the trademark “TWiT” in relation to audio-visual performances. So, anything that’s outside of the realm of video are not a valid target for him.
[+] [-] jsteele|16 years ago|reply
Feb 25, 2009: Fliggo Launch http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/y-combinator-startup-fl...
May 21, 2009: Fliggo -> TwitVid.io http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/21/twitvid-wants-to-be-the...
Aug 28, 2009: TwitVid.io -> Vidly http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/28/vidly-twitvidio-changes...
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[+] [-] diN0bot|16 years ago|reply
i chose tumblr because it looked cooler... posterous is plain and the managing of posts and accounts--at least through their website--is confusing as hell. i still don't know how to delete blogs or my account, and it always took me a handful of extra clicks to figure out how to post a new entry.
this was for Salamander Wrestling, btw: http://salamanderwrestling.tumblr.com
then i wanted to start a development blog for my startup. i stuck to posterous this time, the blog being more of a writing thing, and because tumblr doesn't have comments out of the box (i've since hooked up disqus to salamanderwrestling).
i'm not comfortable using email to make posts. what i want is a powerful markup language (read: pretty prints code) with elegant markup (read: not html).
posterous just didn't cut it for me. things looked...plain and yellow...and i couldn't save drafts. i'd be happy to use emacs to write markup blog posts, but because posterous only allows rich text or html i have to use their web editor.
i switched to wordpress while writing my second post. wordpress makes me feel safe and comfortable. my posts are autosaved. i can upload images. it has themes.
each platform has its niche. here are some reasons why someone wouldn't use posterous (i really tried, though. i'm still rooting for you guys.)
[+] [-] bhousel|16 years ago|reply
Personally, I think these new names are terrible. Are these signs that the honeymoon with Twitter is over?
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[+] [-] byrneseyeview|16 years ago|reply
http://www.paulgraham.com/saynotes.html (footnote 8), and:
http://www.paulgraham.com/vwfront.html
[+] [-] alaskamiller|16 years ago|reply
Edit: Leo Laporte actually has rights to the trademark “TWiT” in relation to audio-visual performances. So, anything that’s outside of the realm of video are not a valid target for him.