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Bloggeries · 1 year ago

Cool post. A service would be cool which let you decide where your status get updated and not. Just as an example I update my twitter status all the time. However my facebook status I've never updated once as its a totally different crowd.

alan · 1 year ago

I use www.ping.fm to selectively update various sets of services with one message. It updates a very wide range of services from one platform.


You can use its default categories of 'statuses, microblogs, blogs, all', update just one of your services, or make your own groups of subsets of services and update only those. It uses the '@' char as the label, so "@freq' might be the group of services i want to update frequently, for instance.



Ping.fm supports image attachments and stores them on ping.fm not on a 3rd party service like Twitpics.



You can update ping.fm via your mobile from a WAP version - m.ping.fm and there's an iPhone-optimised version at i.ping.fm. You can ping via email or ping from all the common IM services.



My only disappointment with ping.fm is it's one way - it doesn't try to be your one-stop shop for messaging, only your outbound service.



Disclaimer: I've done some work recently for Xumii, so I won't comment on the product other than to say I think their idea of a 'mobile social addressbook' is a very powerful one, and the first company to let me bring together all my real-world and online contacts on my mobile and lets me message two-way with all or a subset of them as if they were on one network, wins hands-down.