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Posterous commits to building a Ning blog importer.
- jared314 17y agoVultures circling or cutting out the fat? Time will tell.
- sabat 17y agoNing seems to be looking for ways to piss off its customer base.
- paulbaumgart 17y agoDo they have an agreement with Ning? Otherwise... how do you scrape Ning at scale without them figuring it out and blocking your IP addresses? Tor?
- Raphael 17y agoNing gets tons of traffic. It would be awfully cruel to clamp down on a little harmless scraping.
- paulbaumgart 17y agoMaking it harder to move your data might encourage more people to upgrade to the premium version. It wouldn't be very nice, though. I agree.
- protomyth 17y agopeople will do an amazing amount of work when they feel like they are held hostage. People tend not to make the value decision like a company would.
- kilian 17y agoVery smart move, though I'm not sure if the demographics of ning users (As I know them) are a good fit for posterous.
- robryan 17y agoNo harm in giving people options, in a perfect world people should be able to easily move in between platforms. I know for a long time the better forum software have offered converters.
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoI always cringe a little when I see promises like this. I'm a big fan of under-promise/over-deliver. I'd much rather see "Posterous builds Ning blog importer" rather than a promise to do so.
- look_lookatme 17y agoI wish posterous would commit to letting me add javascript in my template.