Is updating your social network becoming a hassle? Ping.fm might be the answer to your problem. While trying to find a way to update both my Jaiku and Twitter with just one post, and consequently update my Facebook status, moftasa introduced me to Ping.fm.
So what’s Ping.fm?
Simple, it’s a FREE service, where it helps you update most of your social networks effortlessly.
Ping.fm supports, twitter, Jaiku, identi.ca, FaceBook, Tumblr, friendfeed delicious and many more with just one post.
You can either use their website, mobile wap site, email, IM and even SMS.
After you create your account, you will discover that it’s very easy to add your services, and in the meantime update via all of the above mentioned, except maybe the SMS. But don’t get pissed yet.
Googling about it a little will land you to Dan Lane’s blog post on how you can achieve that wish. With three easy steps, you are ready to SMS your updates via Ping.fm.
This is almost perfect excpet that you can’t get updates via SMS…
So there you go. Enjoy it, and hope you find this useful.
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You okay with giving J. Random Web Service your login credentials to all these other sites?
One cool feature in Ping.fm is that Custom URL thin, where you can also let it send your update to a custom URL. So, if you have your own Web Application and want it to grab your current status for any further processing, you can simple enter the address of your application in ping.fm and they will do it for you.
@Josef It’s not like I’m giving my login credentials to my email account. In the meantime, some of the sites are using personal keys instead of passwords.
However, you are right. There are reasons to think twice before doing so. Also, you can take a look at their privacy policy.
@Josef Your comment made me contact Ping.fm. Please find their reply below.
I came across Posterous http://posterous.com today.. It does multi-platform posting in addition to posting files, video & music, all through email. I haven’t given it a go yet, but since you’re a hardcore ping.fm fan, you’ll be able to judge it better..
@embee Not bad. I can not really compare it to post.fm as in apple to apple, but it looks really promising. Thanks for sharing.
@Amr, I believe you are referring to Push Mail. You don’t need a blackberry for Push Mail. All you need is a server that supports push mail, and a phone that has the feature.
I have a Kerio Mail Server, with Nokia E51, E61i, E71, iPod touch clients getting their messages as Push Mail. No blackberry at all.