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Posterous closing on April 30th to focus on Twitter

Posterous closing on April 30th to focus on Twitter

It’s almost inevitable as breathing: a tech powerhouse acquires a clever yet small startup solely for its talent or technology, and lets any leftover services wither away. Posterous’ decision to shut down following its 2012 acquisition by Twitter is very nearly a textbook example. The 4-year-old firm will close its Posterous Spaces service on April 30th to shift all of its attention to Twitter, giving customers just over two months to back up their content. There is an unusual twist to this seemingly predictable story, however. Those still using Spaces will have a place to go — along with Squarespace and WordPress import tools, Posterous founders Brett Gibson and Garry Tan are planning to launch Posthaven as a (not entirely intentional) refuge. Diehards will still have reason to mourn the end of an era, but the closure at least won’t be the end to their creations.

via Engadget 

Posterous Will Shut Down On April 30th, Co-Founder Garry Tan Launches Posthaven To Save Your Sites

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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 interruptions of keeping the service’s diminishing number of users happy. The site will be shutting down on April 30th, but it’s not a completely sad story.

Have no fear, Posterous co-founder Garry Tan is coming to the rescue with a new site called Posthaven, which he promises will never shut down. Here’s what Tan had to say about the launch when we spoke to him:

I’m teaming up with another cofounder of Posterous, Brett Gibson, and we are taking a pledge to keeping the URLs online forever. It’s $5 a month and will have all of the ease of use and power of Posterous. It’s just the two of us and we’re coding it in our bedrooms right now.

 

Tan tells us that Posthaven will never accept funding and will be available to its users “forever.”

Here’s what the Posterous/Twitter team had to say about the shutdown, along with instructions on how to get your data:

Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect with your social networks. Since joining Twitter almost one year ago, we’ve been able to continue that journey, building features to help you discover and share what’s happening in the world – on an even larger scale.

On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit.

Right now and over the next couple months until April 30th, you can download all of your Posterous Spaces including your photos, videos, and documents.

As Twitter delves into how to make discovery easier for its users, some of the findings learned by Posterous will most definitely come into play. On the other hand, it’s nice to know that there’s an easy way to move your information, with one of Posterous’ co-founders providing the service “from the heart.”

Posthaven is currently taking reservations for its service, so grab your name.

UPDATE: It looks like Posthaven is having difficulties managing all of the attention:

Please bear with us through the 503 errors — we’re working to fix Posthaven asap. (We had no idea Posterous would announce today.)

via TechCrunch

Twitter Hacked and 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised: Change Your Passwords

In a blog post today, Twitter has let users know that around 250,000 accounts have potentially been compromised. That means it’s time to change your passwords. Twitter found unusual access patterns on some accounts. Subsequently, they’ve revoked access to all compromised accounts, and you should receive an email requiring you to reset your password if yours was hacked. That said, if you’re worried about your account, now’s as good a time as any to change your password for Twitter (and any other account with the same email and password combination). Here’s a quick primer for getting started with our favorite password manager, LastPass: If you’re brand new to LastPass, head over to our beginner’s guide to LastPass to get up and running. If you’re already using LastPass, our intermediate guide will help you go beyond the basics. Of particular interest right now, you can use LastPass to audit and update your passwords. Their audit tool can reveal your least secure passwords, which passwords you’re repeating on various sites (fixing this for a password you may have repeated on Zappos will be especially important), and more. Using a tool like LastPass may seem like overkill, but remember: The only secure password is the one you can’t remember. You’re better safe than sorry. http://m.lifehacker.com/5981045/twitter-hacked-and-250000-user-accounts-potentially-compromised-change-your-passwords

Twitter’s New Transparency Report: Governments Still Want Your Data

“All your Tweets are belong to us… with a court order. Twitter’s second transparency report reinforces what many already know: governments want online user data, and to yank select content from the Internet. Twitter’s first two transparency reports cover the entirety of 2012, so there’s not a deep historical record to mine for insight. Nonetheless, that year’s worth of data shows all types of government inquiry—information requests, removal requests, and copyright notices—either on the increase or holding relatively steady. Governments requested user information from Twitter some 1,009 times in the second half of 2012, up slightly from 849 requests in the first half of that year. Content-removal requests spiked from 6 in the first half of 2012 to 42 in the second. Meanwhile, copyright notices declined a bit, from 3378 in the first half of 2012 to 3268 in the second.” http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/28/2027200/twitters-new-transparency-report-governments-still-want-your-data?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed

App.net Adds 10 GB of Storage for Users

We’ve reported in the past about App.net, the little subscription based social media platform that could, and as of Monday the site has added 10 GB of storage on top of Alpha, the ad-free Twitter-like service.  Use of App.net comes at a price of $5 a month, or $36 for a year.
Most enticing to hear, Jon Mitchell of ReadWrite speculates that App.net may in fact start offering the social media portion of the site for free, now that the cloud storage business model can support it.
The prospect of a privacy-respecting social media platform had me think of this article on Gizmodo.  Will there ever be a day when the dominant social media platform isn’t the one that sells off our information to the highest bidder?  A platform where the focus isn’t so much on advertising and deception but on straightforward social interaction?  It’s hard to say if this model will ever take off, but the web 2.0 utopia it aspires to is definitely something worth getting excited about.

http://www.technologytell.com/gadgets/111741/app-net-ups-the-ante-with-10-gb-cloud-storage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gadgetell+Gadgetell+-+www.gadgetell.com

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