Facebook: Share Photos and Videos Anywhere You Have Email (opens in new tab)

(blog.facebook.com)

15 pointsjoepestro16y ago15 comments

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basugasubaku16y ago

Are you by any chance not in the U.S.? I've always gotten that error message trying to get to blog.facebook.com (from Japan).

Go in through some U.S.-based proxy and it ought to work.

terpua16y ago

Weird that they would block non-US access to their blog.

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calcnerd25616y ago

I will use this, because the last time I wanted to upload a picture to facebook, I had to use some awful Java applet that crashed my browser (Note: this is not so much anti-Java as anti-today's-implementations-of-things-surrounding Java).

chrisbolt16y ago

(Note: this is not so much anti-Java as anti-today's-implementations-of-things-surrounding Java)

How is that not anti-Java? Today's implementations (there's more than one?) of things surrounding Java are all we have.

calcnerd25616y ago

Yes, there's more than one. On Ubuntu, for instance, just look at how many JVMs there are to choose from in the package manager.

zimbabwe16y ago

I love the email name I got. Any time the words "knobby" and "moat" are what get randomly generated I snort like a drunk frat boy.

pwmanagerdied16y ago

Promotion of unimpressive new Facebook features hardly qualifies as something which "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", which is, roughly, the most important measurement of weather something should be posted here.

Begone!

joepestroOP16y ago

Poster here. This "unimpressive feature" is at the heart of YC backed Posterous. Thought it would be interesting to see the comparison.

And if you want to talk about site guidelines, your comment is against them:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

rantfoil16y ago

Many sites have email as a feature. We're thrilled to see more attention being paid to that feature.

But our vision is quite a bit more than just that feature.

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davi16y ago

I found it interesting. This feature seems like it obviates some of the value provided by services like Posterous, at least for Facebook users.

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terpua16y ago

Getting an error...

     Invalid URL
     The requested URL "/blog.php?post=109768117130", is invalid.

     Reference #9.4f574eca.1248322361.1cfd8323

basugasubaku16y ago

Are you by any chance not in the U.S.? I've always gotten that error message trying to get to blog.facebook.com (from Japan).

Go in through some U.S.-based proxy and it ought to work.

terpua16y ago

Weird that they would block non-US access to their blog.

1 more reply

calcnerd25616y ago

chrisbolt16y ago

(Note: this is not so much anti-Java as anti-today's-implementations-of-things-surrounding Java)

How is that not anti-Java? Today's implementations (there's more than one?) of things surrounding Java are all we have.

calcnerd25616y ago

Yes, there's more than one. On Ubuntu, for instance, just look at how many JVMs there are to choose from in the package manager.

zimbabwe16y ago

I love the email name I got. Any time the words "knobby" and "moat" are what get randomly generated I snort like a drunk frat boy.

pwmanagerdied16y ago

Begone!

joepestroOP16y ago

Poster here. This "unimpressive feature" is at the heart of YC backed Posterous. Thought it would be interesting to see the comparison.

And if you want to talk about site guidelines, your comment is against them:

rantfoil16y ago

Many sites have email as a feature. We're thrilled to see more attention being paid to that feature.

But our vision is quite a bit more than just that feature.

1 more reply

davi16y ago

I found it interesting. This feature seems like it obviates some of the value provided by services like Posterous, at least for Facebook users.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse