On: Posterous adds Google Maps support

[tlrobinson]

Have you guys considered oEmbed (http://www.oembed.com/) support? It would be perfect for things like Posterous (it's also what we use in 280 Slides)

There's a handy 3rd party oEmbed provider for popular services that don't natively support it: http://oohembed.com/

[rantfoil → tlrobinson]

We actually already support oEmbed -- the big problem with it is discovery. We have to hard code lists of sites that support oembed -- which really defeats the purpose.

[boucher → rantfoil]

oEmbed does have a discovery mechanism, though it's its barely implemented by anyone. 280 Slides implements the discovery consumer portion of the spec.