Floost.com, previously known as Blinkk.me, is a personal identity service which also acts as a blogging platform as well as an aggregator. The site, launched by Nogle Technologies Private which had received funding from Info Edge, is still in live beta. Looks If you're a fan of Pinterest.com, which is now the third most visited social network, you might notice that Floost borrows its looks shamelessly from Pinterest, but is very easy on eyes. Getting started & Features Signing up for an account was easier thanks to Facebook connect and the site also helped us in getting started with a few things at first, including a subdomain for the blog. It allows users to import old blog posts from Wordpress, Tumblr, Posterous, and Blogger. Like Tumblr, users can post content like text, link, image, video, quote, and email. However, it does not have any separate stylesheet or look for different kind of content: whether it is text, link, image, video, quote, or email, it all looks the same. Floost supports commonly used audio and video formats like .wma, .au, .ra, .wav, mp3, mp4 and 3GP. Users can re-post (similar to re-pin in pinterest), "like" the post and comment on it. Like Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in March, Floost also provides the ability to post content via email. All that users have to do, is add email ids in account settings which they'd be using to post content, and mail it to post@floost.com Floost integrates the social element, in the sense that…
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