Posterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset

Posterous, the dead-simple service that makes it super easy to share your blog posts and media across the web, has acquired Slinkset, a startup that allows users to quickly build social news sites similar to Reddit and Digg. Slinkset.com will continue to operate, with Slinkset co-founder Brett Gibson joining Posterous full-time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Both Slinkset and Posterous launched last summer as part of the same Y Combinator class. Slinkset is a white-label service for building your own custom social news site in a matter of seconds (think Digg, but with your own logos and a customized design). Slinkset isn't the only company in this space — when it launched last July I noted its similarities to a handful of other services, including Reddit, which had recently gone open-source and allowed for custom sites. But while it may not be terribly unique, it's easy to see why the Posterous team is interested in Slinkset.

Posterous cofounder Garry Tan says that the company is going to build "massively engaging sites for both content discovery (via social news) and content posting (via blog streams)". Beyond that details are scant, but it's not difficult to imagine the kind of features Posterous may begin to implement.