Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-28 Thread Dave Cross
Ian Forrester wrote: Yeah this is the thing I'm really worried about happening. Ping.fm currently is my preferred way to do microblogging. Without it, geez it would be bad news. Surprised no ones created a ping.fm type thing for the desktop. Interesting piece about ping.fm -

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-28 Thread Alun Rowe
To me updating so many services at once feels a bit spammy. I often finding myself cursing when pownce, facebook, Twitter etc all tell me the same thing by the same person at the same time... On 28 Oct 2008, at 06:36, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Forrester wrote: Yeah this

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mbale
Alun has a good point, anyone here remembers the good ole days of the free for all links ? (see http://mpelembe.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/12/19/3925166.html ) In my experience, different social networks attract different types of people. My friends on hi5 are totally different to those on

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-28 Thread Alun Rowe
. Registered number: 3960918. Registered office: 1 Lauras Close, Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire PE19 5DP From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Sam Mbale Sent: Tue 10/28/2008 10:50 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] ping.fm Alun has a good point, anyone here remembers the good

RE: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Forrester
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alun Rowe Sent: 28 October 2008 10:50 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] ping.fm Groups on Twitter/Pownce/Ping etc would be the killer

RE: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Forrester
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Bowyer Sent: 21 October 2008 14:19 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] ping.fm 2008/10/21 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sunday: added 23 social networks to my ping.fm account. Tuesday: http://ping.fm has

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Hi Ian, in your opinion, what would be a critical feature set for a ping.fm desktop app? Obviously you'd need to be able to post updates to the ping.fm service, but what outside the core functionality would you like to see? Regards, Stefan On 27 Oct 2008, at 16:29, Ian Forrester wrote:

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-27 Thread Bruce James
IMHO Ping.fm is good, but not great. Would be nice to see a bit of a preview of what a post looks like in various services. Some of mine have been truncated by twitter and facebook and look odd. And links sometimes come out all wrong for me, so tinyurl before submission? B On 27 Oct

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-27 Thread Brian Butterworth
The most useful thing is being able to update so many networks at once I update Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, Pownce, MySpace, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Identi.ca, Brightkite, endFeed, Blogger, Plaxo Pulse, LiveJournal, Bebo, hi5, Mashable, kwippy, Xanga, rdPress.com, Rejaw, Friendster, Delicious, Yahoo 360,

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-21 Thread Peter Bowyer
2008/10/21 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sunday: added 23 social networks to my ping.fm account. Tuesday: http://ping.fm has disappeared! Has it been credit crunched? Is it to return? Or do I need to change 23 passwords? They're having problems with GoDaddy. Definitely not dead.