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Bye Sweetcron, hello Posterous
I prefer hosted services
I am willing to trade a lesser degree of flexibility (flexibility that I don't particularly need) in order to outsource to a convenient, hosted solution. This is a trade-off you begin to make more and more of as you get older, I think. I no longer want to mess around with installing software for my personal blog. I just want to let someone else take care of it.
Also, since I make my own hosted software now (Peashoot and the upcoming Seashell) it feels good to support the movement :)
Lifestreaming seemed very impersonal
If I'm honest, I started lifestreaming for me, not my audience. There's definitely a strong value proposition for blog owners who are thinking to switch to a stream - it's maintenance free. No more writing blog posts! That value doesn't translate into audience value so well, though. I think my audience quickly got bored of seeing blurry food snapshots or out-of-context quips from my Twitter feed. Your mileage may vary.
Ironically, whereas a lifestream was supposed to be an intimate, personal insight into an individual's life... the lack of real audience interaction meant it ended up as quite an impersonal experience.
Posterous is totally awesome
The Posterous team have built a great product. I was in love 10 minutes into using it.
So where does that leave the Sweetcron project?
That's the magic of open source - it can be taken anywhere. The code will live at Google Code indefinitely. Fork it, repackage it - you can do anything. I just won't be updating it anymore.
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