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		rantfoil on Feb 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Posterous (YC S08) launches private, password-prot... In the age of open API's, do you need to ask? =) API's are coming, both for posting and retrieving. It's going to be one of the big tent pole features alongside theming we're excited about in the next few months.

davi on Feb 12, 2009 [–]

Sounds like a good trajectory.

Although there is a difference between exposing API to developers vs. giving users a feature, my "I want to own my data" worries will be greatly assuaged if a good API exists.

pclark on Feb 12, 2009 | [–]

Disqus has/had a great feature where you could get an automated weekly "dump" of all the comments on your site.

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