Image by via CrunchBase Six Apart recently purchased Pownce, shut it down, and scrapped it for parts. Their blog says Welcome Pownce Team, so the users of the Pownce service need to find another place to be accepted. The Pownce service will officially shut down on December 15th, according to The Pownce Blog. It’s very [ Read More ]
This is quick video showing how I keep track of multiple micro-blogging services using Pidgin, Launchy, and Ping.fm. I basically send everything via Ping.fm and recieve everything via IM. One thing I forgot to mention here is that I can also “post” to Twitter from TwitterSpy (which I mentioned in a previous post). How I [ Read More ]
Welcome, StumbleUpon users! Don’t forget to subscribe. Ok, now that we understand the evils of posting across multiple services, let’s talk about the basic ways we can go about keeping track of these services. The main issue with cross-posting using services like Ping.fm and Hellotxt is that you’re not actually engaging with people, you’re just [ Read More ]
Welcome, StumbleUpon users! Don’t forget to subscribe. A little while ago, I did a post on using Ping.fm without spamming FriendFeed. This was followed up with a post by Andy DeSoto, where he talks about whether this Ping.fm cross-posting is saving time at the expense of others. Now, I know there are a lot of [ Read More ]
Ping.fm is a service that allows you to send out updates of various types (status updates, blogs, micro-blogs) to multiple social networks. I have been using it for some time and my results have been mostly positive. This is not a tutorial on how to use it. After seeing the topic on numerous occasions (here, [ Read More ]
