Lifestreaming: Follow Your Posterous Peeps with RSS

28 Aug 2009

Lifestreaming: Follow Your Posterous Peeps with RSS

As I mentioned last night, as more of my friends join Posterous and use it as a hub to populate their I am becoming a huge fan of their built in reader. It's helping me discover all kinds of new, substantive content that is hard to find in Twitter or even multiple blog RSS feeds. Today I found out you can actually subscribe to the Posterous peeps you follow via RSS. Here's how.

First, visit posterous.com/reader in your browser. If you're using Firefox, Safari or IE, the RSS icon should light up. Then all you need to do is subscribe to that feed. I am wondering if this one day will become my preferred input channel - especially if Posterous becomes as real-time as Friendfeed, Facebook and Twitter. It still feels slow right now, like blogging. Then again, much of the content already finds its way into all three sites. So this might be moot. Still, for now, it's cool for me.

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Aug 28, 2009

Dave Stanley said...

The real breakthrough for them in this area will be in search. A few weeks ago I wanted to pull a feed of a search result. I was actually kind of surprised that they weren't supporting RSS feeds for their search results. Opening that door yields the ability to explore and find new people/content.

Aug 28, 2009

Mahendra Palsule said...

I've always followed my Posterous subscriptions via RSS in Google Reader.

Aug 28, 2009

Luciano Evaristo Guerche (Gorše) said...

I am looking forward to reach the day when content publishers (blogs, microblogs, social network statuses, etc.), content subscribers (blog readers, lifestreaming aggregators, etc) and hubs (blog readers, lifestreaming aggregators, etc) implement PubSubHub protocol (http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/) for the sake of a real-time stream of content. Besides PubSubHub protocol implementation, services must implement rules so that to avoid information going back and forth in a loop.

Pixelpipe.com, posterous.com and friendfeed.com are on my basket, but they must improve over time.

Aug 28, 2009

Corvida Raven said...

I didn't even know this was an add-on/reader in and of itself. It's pretty neat though. Thanks for the tip Steve

Aug 28, 2009

James Anthony Campbell said...

Posterous is actually one of the few feeds I get in a daily email roundup as opposed to in my google reader feed. It is nice to get an email of everyone I am following on posterous in one summary email as opposed to a whole bunch of links in reader.

This points to how flexible posterous is and why it is going to be huge, you can consume it and share it exactly how you want.

Aug 29, 2009

sascha assbach said...

did that from the start using google reader. i'm just missing the keyboard shortcuts in the native posterous reader / site.
the only thing that is missing is audio and video files. you can only see icons of these in gReader

Aug 30, 2009

Kahlil Lechelt said...

Wasn't aware of the RSS feed. I subscribed to it no in GReader. Only minus: you can't fav the posts That means you can't build your fav list. Which is not available by RSS by the way (it should be though).

Sep 01, 2009

Daniel said...

I find that the once-a-day e-mails I get from Posterous are all I need. And since Posterous can re-post via Twitter, Facebook, etc., I don't feel like I miss anything.

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