I’ve always wanted to publish my blog or twitter posts to all the social networks where blogging and status updates available but sadly until this time there was no tool to do that job until now…. Ping.fm made the revolution of one click publishing to the social networks which enables you to post status updates, micro-blogging and blogging to multiple social networks at the same time. It’s already supporting a wide range of social networks, micro blogging engines and status updates services. Ping.fm is a centralized location to publish and broadcast to all your social networking sites. That is not all.. they are supporting a variety of tools that can help you publish your broadcast through e-mail, instant messengers, google gadgets, facebook application and even via SMS text. Remember it’s not only an one click multiple social networks publishing engine but also a superb marking tool if you use it wisely. A few social networks to mention are myspace, facebook, friendster, tumblr, twitter, bebo, seesmic, linkedin, friendfeed, plaxo, livejournal, wordpress.com, blogger.com, flickr, jaiku, delicious, hi5, multiply, yahoo 360. Lets take a look into a little bit more details.
Features:
- Status updates to various social networks such as Twitter, MySpace, Facebook
- Micro blogging updates to various networks such as Twitter, Tumblr
- Blog to various networks such as Myspace, Friendster, Facebook
- Exclusive selection of the type of updates to publish
- twitter like publishing targets
- Numerous sources for publishing your post such as email, facebook application and instant messengers
- Expandable API options, you can create custom publishing systems using your own programming language
- Location updates
- Keeps a list of your recent posts
- Record and post videos using a seesmic account and your webcam then post the video out though all your social networks
But hey don’t take my word for granted. Take a look at the screen shots below:
This is the dashboard of your operations
You can always do a selective posting for a specific network and it’s easy as using twitter
The social networks selection screen, most were not shown over this one because I’ve already added those networks into my profile, for example see the dashboard screen carefully.
Display of the last 25 posts posted via ping.fm. Note that it also includes the social networks Icons where it have been posted at.
Usage as a marketing tool:
We know that twitter already can be used to reach millions of people around the world. Let me give you one simple example. Lets say you have 500 friends at facebook, 300 friends at friendster, 1000 at myspace, 200 at bebo. These peoples might not know your latest post you wrote about your product or service. Now using ping.fm you can reach all those people in one snap.
If you not yet signed up for a Ping.fm, please do as soon as you can. Trust me you wont regret that.
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Great post, very useful – thanks!
TwilightPrincess
2 Feb 09 at 5:50 am
I agree that ping.fm is very useful. However, I have noticed one odd behavior. When I post links via ping.fm, they don’t publish to my WordPress as actual links. Rather they just publish as plain text. I then have to go to WordPress and add in the
to make it a link manually.Have you experienced this problem? I can’t seem to find any info about this issue online or at ping.fm, and my links are publishing just fine on other sites such as Facebook.
All told, Ping.fm may be the single biggest revolution in social networking and SEO in the last few years.
Erik Burns
27 Feb 09 at 2:43 pm
Erik Burns Wrote:
they don’t publish to my WordPress as actual links. Rather they just publish as plain text. I then have to go to WordPress and add in the to make it a link manually
Hi Eric, I’ve not came along this problem (yet) . Also Did you mean wordpress.com or a self hosted blog?
Ruhani Rabin
27 Feb 09 at 3:23 pm
Ruhani Rabin Wrote:
Also Did you mean wordpress.com or a self hosted blog?
It’s a wordpress blog . I haven’t moved it over to self-hosting yet. All the updates there right now are from ping.fm, but the only one that has a functional link is the one I edited by hand.
Thanks for responding! Do you publish to WordPress via Ping.fm? If so, are there any special settings you use? Do you make sure to publish out as a blog entry? I’ve been publishing as status updates, so perhaps that’s the problem. But it’s odd because they publish as links to Facebook.
Erik Burns
27 Feb 09 at 4:00 pm
Erik Burns Wrote:
Do you publish to WordPress via Ping.fm? If so, are there any special settings you use? Do you make sure to publish out as a blog entry? I’ve been publishing as status updates, so perhaps that’s the problem. But it’s odd because they publish as links to Facebook.
Hi Eric, You should know that ping.fm publishes the entry in plain text format. No I don’t use ping.fm to any wordpress.com blogs ( dont have one). It’s upto the provider to render the text into hyperlink and facebook do it by themselves (ping.fm don’t send hyperlinks to facebook). I use ping.fm to publish to 17 social networks. Some of the social network providers convert the text to a link. But not all of them.
If you had a hosted blog you might be able to write a function that can convert the text links in to hyperlink on the fly.. or it can be done via 3rd party plugin.
Ruhani Rabin
28 Feb 09 at 9:49 am
I suppose http://www.indiavision.com/news/ is submitted via this service?
martin zoehler
20 Mar 10 at 1:14 pm