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RIP Posterous: The Death of the Lifestream

Buzzwords. There are loads of them, especially when it comes to social media. 

One of the more popular buzzwords was "lifestream," which was coined mostly because of the experience that Posterous provided its users: a simple way to create, manage and curate content quickly, i.e. throughout your daily drivels aka lifestream.

Well, Twitter bought Posterous last year and is officially killing it off.

I have been racking my brain on how to get my hands on the 720p video that the iPhone 4 shoots. Other than connecting the device to your pc or Mac and importing it with the help of aperture, lightroom or iPhoto, I've yet to find a solution that allows me to upload 720p directly to the web.

I've tried the direct to YouTube route via the camera roll; emailing to YouTube; MMS to YouTube and Vimeo; MMS to Vimeo; and, he PicPosterous app.

I got zippo. Nada. Neite. Nothing.

toolbox-300x279.jpgBlogging is a staple of building an online brand. Whether you're an individual trying to build your own brand or a communications executive managing the brand of a Fortune 500 company, selecting the tools used to create and organize content is just as important as the content itself.

Here are some of the more popular tools that bloggers are using these days and ones that will make the content process seamless.

Diss-like Facebook Friends?With 400+ million people on Facebook, it's just a matter of time that segments of your life will intersect. Your friends will interact with your co-workers; your clients will interact with your high school buddies; and, the people you barely talked to in college are all of a sudden BFF's with your family.

So, as 400+ million people will attest to, Facebook is now a potluck of friendships.

I have nearly 600 "friends" on Facebook, and to be honest, I interact frequently with about 10% of that group. I'm sure it's the same for you as well.

With the volume of people we are friending vs. the amount we actually interact with, issues that happen in real relationships can bubble over into online relationships, and ultimately, exposing some ugliness of people you know, you work with, are associated with, etc.