For those of you who can't be arsed...

Getting a blog and spending a few hours getting it to look how you want it to, and doing all the associated shit that goes with it, there is a site that takes pretty much all of this, scrunches it into a ball, and throws it into the bin. Posterous is a miniblogging site that allows you to easily post whatever you fancy; MP3's, documents and even video in the form of links and files, to a page dedicated to you.

Posterous automatically embeds players for the following sites: YouTube, Google Video, Hulu, Omnisio, MixWit, Justin.TV, Fliggo, Vimeo, motionbox, TED Talks, Viddler, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, Revver, TeacherTube, GodTube, seesmic, and Brightcove as well as allowing you to post on other sites like Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, Movable Type, Livejournal and Xanga.

Founded by Garry Tan and his "college buddy" (Is this a euphemism? Answers on a postcard to the usual address) Sachin Agarwal, after they got sick of having to log into so many websites to blog something...

"It was kind of crazy. Log into Flickr, upload a picture, get an embed code, log into Blogger/Wordpress, paste the embed code, then finally after all those steps you have a blog post. We looked at email and just saw it was something nobody really used or cared about. So it all just sort of clicked." - Garry Tan.

When you think about it, the man has a point. Email is something that millions of people use each and everyday but not everyone is gung ho about getting a blog and putting the hours in to keep it fresh. Posterous takes all the hard work out of the hands of the user and allows them to post quickly and easily.

Garry and Sachin also plan on working on more ways to use email to connect people to the net simply and easily. Plans are in the pipeline for Posteous's staff to engage in non-profit work to help small charities set up a website that enables them to make themselves, and their mission, more widely known.

At the moment Posterous is a simple looking site when you first fire onto it but Garry assures me that the highest priority at the moment is themes and easy customising of your Posterous. I for one will hold him to it. Why not whip yourself over to posterous and grab yourself an easy updateable site.

Join the revolution, it's full of stars. Garry and Sachin may be two of them.

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