Have you, like me, been wondering whatPosteroushas been up to of late? I must admit I was beginning to fear the worst but fortunately today’s Posterous launch has locked those thoughts up, hopefully for good. Firstly, a little background. What is Posterous? San Francisco-based Posterous is an ultra-simple publishing platform similar to Tumblr and WordPress.com. It stands out by focusing on simple, friction-free posting, deep email integration and the ability to distribute your Posterous content to a number of other locations (e....

If you’re like us, and chance are good that you are, you tend to post a lot of pictures toPosterous. While the gallery feature is awesome, and we love how easy it is to create a great looking page, sometimes it would be nice to create a slideshow from all of those pictures that you’ve loaded onto the site. Hearing that request, the Posterous team has been hard at work and has just released a slideshow feature across the site....

Posterous todayannounceda new API for all 3rd party developers, allowing them to access the full Posterous technology stack in their applications. The API, previously available only to the Posterous engineering team, allows developers to create sites, add users to it and assign custom themes for each user. Additionally, it now has several new methods for retrieving and manipulating data around sites, users, posts, comments, and other Posterous data types. That aside, Posterous said that the new API conforms to the REST constraints and offers a clean and concise set of URLs for parsing and understanding purposes....

It seems that Posterous is the latest victim to fall prey to hacking, and it is a strange one to say the least. In ablog posttoday titled ‘What I do in my spare time’, it says: “Hello everybody, It’s Julio’s hacker speaking here. I have decided to expose what he like to do in his spare time. He likes to watch porn and view adult content. His most viewed site is this camsite: http://exodi....

In a town whose saying is “Come to Huntington Beach on vacation, leave on probation,” one councilman in Huntington Beach wants to introduce electronic shaming onFacebook. In a fresh twist on the days of public flogging, sandwich boards and scarlet letters, he wants police to begin posting the mug shots of everyone who is arrested more than once for driving while under the influence. “If it takes shaming people to save lives, I am willing to do it,” said Devin Dwyer, the councilman behind the proposal....