rich manalang

Update: Use the official Posterous version instead.

Last night Google added a bunch of new features to Google Reader.  One of the features they added was the ability to send items to various social sites like Twitter, Digg, Facebook, etc.  One of the "Send To" sites I would have liked to see by default is Posterous.  But that didn't happen.  So, to scratch my own itch, I created a service to do just that.  The service is called "posterit" and is available at http://posterit.heroku.com.  Before you can use it with Google Reader, you first need to set it up in Google Reader.

Go to Google Reader > Settings > Send To.  Click on the "Create a custom link" button.  Enter the following details into the form:

Name: Posterous
URL: http://posterit.heroku.com/?title=${title}&url=${url}&shorturl=${short-url}&source=${source}

Some known issues (actually, just one that I'm aware of): If you have more than one Posterous site, this will only post to the default site.  Hopefully that's not an issue for most people.