Comments on: Ping.FM – SMS to Twitter, Jaiku, identi.ca and more. http://www.jpierre.com/2008/09/pingfm-sms-to-twitter-jaiku-identica-and-more/ JP's Personal place of thoughts, rants, geekery and more... Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JPierre http://www.jpierre.com/2008/09/pingfm-sms-to-twitter-jaiku-identica-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1533 JPierre Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:35:55 +0000 http://www.jpierre.com/?p=541#comment-1533 @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. @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.

]]> By: JPierre http://www.jpierre.com/2008/09/pingfm-sms-to-twitter-jaiku-identica-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1495 JPierre Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:08:25 +0000 http://www.jpierre.com/?p=541#comment-1495 @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. @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.

]]> By: embee http://www.jpierre.com/2008/09/pingfm-sms-to-twitter-jaiku-identica-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1492 embee Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:35:16 +0000 http://www.jpierre.com/?p=541#comment-1492 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.. 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..

]]> By: JPierre http://www.jpierre.com/2008/09/pingfm-sms-to-twitter-jaiku-identica-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1436 JPierre Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:08:29 +0000 http://www.jpierre.com/?p=541#comment-1436 @Josef Your comment made me contact Ping.fm. Please find their reply below. <blockquote>This issue has been raised a few times by some of our other users. Yes, giving out login information isn't the best method of connecting services, but most of the supported services, at least for us, don't have any other way. We've encouraged these services to support some form of transparent authentication, but it's really more of a task than they are willing to take on for their current roadmaps. And while saying that, the standard for transparent auth is still up in the air. There is no consistent method of authentication that 1.) User friendly and 2.) easy to implement on a developmental standpoint for a web service. The Ping.fm model is purely by option. User's aren't required to connect their services. We stress this for people leary of giving out their credentials, which is completely warranted. But, for the people who are trusting enough to connect, we offer high grade network security and data encryption as well as browser encryption upon storing the data. It's a secure system on our end, but that's no excuse for the supporting sites not to have an alternative authentication method, especially since the new found boom of data portability. Thanks for your post and I hope you can shed some light on these issues to your readers. Sean Ping.fm</blockquote> @Josef Your comment made me contact Ping.fm. Please find their reply below.

This issue has been raised a few times by some of our other users. Yes, giving out login information isn’t the best method of connecting services, but most of the supported services, at least for us, don’t have any other way. We’ve encouraged these services to support some form of transparent authentication, but it’s really more of a task than they are willing to take on for their current roadmaps. And while saying that, the standard for transparent auth is still up in the air. There is no consistent method of authentication that 1.) User friendly and 2.) easy to implement on a developmental standpoint for a web service.

The Ping.fm model is purely by option. User’s aren’t required to connect their services. We stress this for people leary of giving out their credentials, which is completely warranted. But, for the people who are trusting enough to connect, we offer high grade network security and data encryption as well as browser encryption upon storing the data. It’s a secure system on our end, but that’s no excuse for the supporting sites not to have an alternative authentication method, especially since the new found boom of data portability.

Thanks for your post and I hope you can shed some light on these issues to your readers.

Sean
Ping.fm

]]> By: JPierre http://www.jpierre.com/2008/09/pingfm-sms-to-twitter-jaiku-identica-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 JPierre Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:34:02 +0000 http://www.jpierre.com/?p=541#comment-1433 @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 <a href="http://ping.fm/privacy/" rel="nofollow">privacy policy</a>. @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.

]]> By: Tarek Amr http://www.jpierre.com/2008/09/pingfm-sms-to-twitter-jaiku-identica-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1432 Tarek Amr Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:28:00 +0000 http://www.jpierre.com/?p=541#comment-1432 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. 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.

]]> By: Josef Assad http://www.jpierre.com/2008/09/pingfm-sms-to-twitter-jaiku-identica-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1431 Josef Assad Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:05:08 +0000 http://www.jpierre.com/?p=541#comment-1431 You okay with giving J. Random Web Service your login credentials to all these other sites? You okay with giving J. Random Web Service your login credentials to all these other sites?

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