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<p>Enter Posterous (<a href="http://www.posterous.com" target="_blank" title="Posterous Homepage">www.posterous.com</a>). Once again anther free online service but with many differences. The best description that I can give it is one given by a friend of mine, "A blogging site on steroids". And that about sums it up.</p>
<p>The first things that strike you the first time you visit the site is its clean, professional and totally advertisement free presentation. Signing up couldn't be easier: simply enter your e-mail, username and password and you have access. Just a point to note is that your username will become part of the URL that you give to your friends.</p>
<p>So why would you want to sign up to yet another service? Well here is were Posterous comes into its own. It links to virtually every major social networking site you could imagine (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Blogger to name but a few). This means that any post made to your Posterous site can be set up to automatically update these sites with the same information. What is more is that post to the Posterous site are made via an e-mail submission with any photos, videos etc being included as attachments. This e-mail is then uploaded to your Posterous site and sync'd to all your other services with the attachments being handled correctly by each. As with all the other services, friends or followers are able to comment on your entries (if you've given permission for this to happen).</p>
<p>A final point worth noting is Posterous allows you to design and layout your page in anyway you wish. Although it does require some advanced HTML and CSS knowledge, you are able to totally customise you site to what you want it to look like. You are even able to use your own domain name for its URL. Besides appearance you are also able to add as many extra pages and links as you want to the site. In short Posterous is a great service to build any informative and interactive website.</p>
<p>So what's the catch? This is my one worry; I can't find one. Posterous is great service which could easily change the face of how social networking is managed and applied.</p>