FolioTwist

FolioTwist:

"Artist Websites that work!"

Check this out, they too promise to get your artwork up and out online with a lot of assistance.
Try the 10 day trial. I signed up, forgot I did and my 10 days passed.

Here, Emptyeasel gives a review of the site.

Art Marketing Secrets

Why do the research when there is a company that will do it all for you. Actually they will build your online portfolio, manage your content, and sell your work. Maybe this sounds like a good idea but what's the catch? You don't get to learn all the fun stuff about HTML, Content Management Systems (CMS) and your control and creativity is limited. Oh yea, and you're paying over $1,200 annually.

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Posterous

I just began using Posterous, which is a social media platform that uses an application programming interface. I have found James Jahnston's opinion about the matter. Mine will come shortly once I start familiarizing myself with the program.

Taken from Posterous’ website; “Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog.

If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world.

Posterous is NOT a micro blog.” You can use Posterous to post to almost every social media site out there. If a site isn’t listed, just wait, they will add it once the site takes off. But it doesn’t hurt to shoot the staff a quick email with the request to add it to their lists.

With Posterous you can send photos, audio files, links, documents and videos. You can even send both at the same time. It will figure it out and post it for you. The files supported by Posterous are:

If you send multiple picture(s) to Posterous, it will resize to a web-friendly format and when you post multiple pictures in post, it will create a gallery.

When attaching music, the system will send the mp3 to a eb app that plays mp3s and it will drop in place on your blog.

When sending video, they will transcode your video so that it can be viewed in a flash player to view in any browser. It’s even setup so it can be played on an Iphone without using flash! They will host most videos files, so there is no extra work with uploading to a hosting site and then setting up the links. Posterous will do the hard work for you.

If you add links to your message you do not have to worry about adding the HTML coding, Posterous will set this up for you. If you send a YouTube link of a video to Posterous, it will automatically link and embedd the video right there on your site! Posterous can link and embedd to YouTube, Google Video, Hulu, Funny Or Die, Omnisio, MixWit, Justin.TV, Fliggo, Vimeo, motionbox, TED Talks, Viddler, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, Revver, TeacherTube, GodTube, seesmic, and Brightcove.

Posterous also offers autopost. Autopost is where you post to Posterous and Posterous will then go out to your linked social media accounts and post them for you. Such as if you use Flickr, you can upload your pictures to Posterous and Posterous will then go to Flickr and post them to Flickr. This will work with Facebook, Twitter, and many other soical media sites.

James' thoughts

In my opinion Posterous, is good for basic posting, quick, posting where formatting is not all that important, social media platform updates, Flickr updates causal bloggers and new bloggers. If a profession blogger or blogger who wants more formatting options, this system is not for them.

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Application programming interface

Use of APIs to share content

The practice of publishing APIs has allowed web communities to create an open architecture for sharing content and data between communities and applications. In this way, content that is created in one place can be dynamically posted and updated in multiple locations on the web.

1. Photos can be shared from sites like Flickr and Photobucket to social network sites like Facebook and MySpace.
2. Content can be embedded, e.g. embedding a presentation from SlideShare on a LinkedIn profile.
3. Content can be dynamically posted. Sharing live comments made on Twitter with a Facebook account, for example, is enabled by their APIs.
4. Video content can be embedded on sites which are served by another host.
5. User information can be shared from web communities to outside applications, delivering new functionality to the web community that shares its user data via an open API. One of the best examples of this is the Facebook Application platform. Another is the Open Social platform.^[5] 

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