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Posterous Targets Ning In Massive Switching Campaign. Who Is Next?
- robryan 16y agoI'm guessing their scraping the sites content. From a quick Google search it seems that only very recently has their been an easy way to export your data from Ning? Pretty bad form for a network that has been around so long if that is the case.
- malloreon 16y agoI asked this on the TC comments, but do you have to own the Ning blog you want to copy to Posterous? If not, and I can take anyone's Ning content and use it as my own, that's a big problem.
- houseabsolute 16y agoYou can already do that with nothing more than a simple wget + sendmail script.
- thingie 16y agoYou can take any content published on the web and use it as your own… Sure, it's a very good idea to have some kind of verification (like "post this code on the site"? some kind of email verification? or at least send a mail to some contact on the copied site to inform the legitimate owner?), but still… you can just use copy&paste anyway. People are very skilled in it.
- zFlix 16y agoIf this is the case, why doesn't Posterous just copy all the Ning blogs and say "hey! your already here!"?
- houseabsolute 16y agoInteresting idea, but I'm guessing users wouldn't really like that very much.
- tlrobinson 16y agoBecause it's copyrighted? I assume the parent comment was referring to the technical feasibility of reproducing content, not the legality.
- thingie 16y agoBecause someone would, very likely, sue them?
- robryan 16y agoEasy fix to this would just be to get them to make a new blog entry with some keyword to indicate ownership.
- samratjp 16y agoAwesome! This is actually quite useful. I wish this could have happened earlier, but in any case, this makes it easier for groups to actively post more frequently (I tried using Google groups and Ning with group projects, but boy people are lazy).
- moolave 16y agoSuch an awesome way of seamless transition. If they keep doing it this way, then migration is more enticing for prospective users.
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- mudil 16y agoSounds nice and dandy, but does it keep the URL architecture in place? If I want to move my blog to a new location, I would want to keep all the base URLs in place: for posts, archives (category and date), for tags, etc etc. Otherwise I loose search engine traffic and inter-connectivity between posts. Can they do it?
- jonasvp 16y agoI asked them this exact question a couple of weeks ago. Sachin actually answered himself and said they can't maintain old urls for now but are working on it.
- acangiano 16y agoWordpress, Blogger, Typepad.
- borism 16y agoI guess Posterous itself is the next thing that will be switched to some next thing.
- ube 16y agoI really like posterous. I'm wondering about wordpress - especially migrating to posterous from an installed wordpress site (rather than having a site on wordpress.com). One thing that is missing from posterous is the ability to put ads like google adsense...anyone know if this is coming? (I haven't seen any hints on their blogs)
- AndrewWarner 16y agoPosterous feels a lot like my Mac did the first time I switched from Windows. It just works.