This is traffic I wasn’t getting before when the site was on WordPress… This has nothing to do with SEO benefits of Posterous – but its natural ability to generate traffic using your existing social networks combined with the ease of publishing content.

Here’s Steve Rubel’s workflow, which illustrates my point…

Let’s dive in to the numbers and figure out why traffic is up on my personal blog. I never posted to the WordPress version site because I simply did not have time while managing this blog, the internet business podcast blog, my web strategy blog – among all the other projects I am actively working on.

However I do have time to upload pictures to Flickr, update Twitter, push ideas to Evernote – from my iPhone. Half of the genius behind Posterous is the absolute ease in posting anything – all through email.

The other half are the push notifications to your social networks. There are no extra steps to post your content to Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, etc. These content outposts are driving ALL of the traffic to the site – through Posterous’ push notification system.

It takes me 30 seconds to write an email, post to Posterous, and let the traffic come in. Oh – and comments work by email as well (much like Disqus). So if someone comments on a post, it gets emailed to me, and I reply to that email and it gets posted to the site. Brilliant.

So what does all this mean? Well not much aside from an extension of my personal brand that otherwise didn’t exist while using WordPress. The traffic isn’t important – I’m not converting on it – but it’s traffic that otherwise didn’t exist.

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It took 5 minutes to setup and a half hour to sync my existing comments – which was what I was worried about. It even maintained the nested comment structure in place on existing comments – I didn’t expect that.

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1. I don’t want to manage YAWS (yet another wordpress site)
2. Posterous makes it too easy not to post
3. Posterous cross-posts to my other networks making it similar to Ping.fm
4. I can have a custom domain and run Google Analytics
5. I don’t want to have to think about it – and Posterous solves that problem marvelously

Why not Tumblr? I went back and forth on this for a few days and just decided to go with Posterous for the simplicity + cross posting feature.

What can you expect there? Random pictures, funny stuff, personal ramblings, etc…

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Now you’d think Microsoft would have learned from the marketing debacle that was Vista. Here’s the pricing info for Windows 7, announced today.

These estimated retail prices for upgrade packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are:

• Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99
• Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99
• Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99

And the estimated retail prices for full packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are:

• Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99
• Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99
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Confused yet? So am I.

I have a MacBook and a PC. I’ll definitely be upgrading to Snow Leopard. But there is no way I am $220 to upgrade my Vista Ultimate machine to Windows 7 Ultimate – if that’s even the right upgrade path. But if you want to – it will be available on October 22!

Oh Microsoft haven’t you figured out that less is more? Why so many choices? At least the case is easy to open.

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Select Models of VIZIO XVT Series also include VIZIO Internet Apps “VIA”(TM) feature with Wireless Internet enabled content (42″, 47″ and 55″ sizes)

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