by Brian Solis
It’s a hot couple of weeks for shiny, new cool micromedia apps. With FriendFeed becoming the new Twitter, who knew that another service could come in and quickly steal our attention.
Enter Ping.fm, your new micromedia dashboard. No, it’s not like FriendFeed. In fact they’re very complementary services.
From one place whether from the Web, IM or your phone (as long as your SMS can support email addresses), you can update Facebook, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr, and Twitter – at once or individually.
You can post to specific services by using “triggers”:
Example:
@fb message – Post directly to Facebook
@jk message – Post directly to Jaiku
@pn message – Post directly to Pownce
@tr message – Post directly to Tumblr
@tt message – Post directly to Twitter
This service is incredibly helpful, especially when you’re active across all or even some of these networks.
The only thing I’m not a big fan of is the little promo material it sends out as you activate your accounts…see below. I understand why they do it, but, there’s gotta be another way to subtly promote that you’re using the service.
Here’s an example using the Web updater + Twitter trigger…
The result…
Connect with me on Twitter, Jaiku, LinkedIn, Pownce, Plaxo, FriendFeed, or Facebook.
Discussion
It seems less convenient to use a service like this. And why would you wanna post the same message to so many different sites.
So ping.fm is the new hellotxt, but WITH mobile? If it works when I get to my cellie when I leave the office, I will be so stoked.
@Andrew Mager, why would I want to send the same message? Well I have different audiences on different social networks. So its mass saturation getting the message out once.
I can’t trust this site as far as I can throw it, unfortch. And I also don’t really see the usefulness of such a tool at this stage in the game. It’s hard enough to keep up with your own conversation on one social networking site, let alone 5 or 6 at the same time, imo.