Comments on: Ping.fm Centralizes Status Updates, But Is It Enough?

By: mechanesthesia

mechanesthesia — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:17:57 +0000

From what I see Hellotxt is only available for Europe or with international texting available. If not, they have this weird workaround that I don’t like, using UDEFN. When I text to UDEFN everything comes out in lower case.

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:26:33 +0000

[...] Then I remembered reading this article on TechCrunch:http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/pingfm-centralizes-status-updates-but-is-it-enough/ [...]

By: Ping.fm Secures Angel Funding From Joi Ito And Reid Hoffman « Tejas123’s Blog

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:01:12 +0000

[...] first took note of Ping.fm in late March this year, when the service was still in private beta, and we warned it [...]

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Ping.fm Secures Angel Funding From Joi Ito And Reid Hoffman | Fidicaro.net — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:29:08 +0000

[...] first took note of Ping.fm in late March this year, when the service was still in private beta, and we warned it [...]

By: Ping.fm Secures Angel Funding From Joi Ito And Reid Hoffman

Ping.fm Secures Angel Funding From Joi Ito And Reid Hoffman — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:41:50 +0000

[...] first took note of Ping.fm in late March this year, when the service was still in private beta, and we said it [...]

By: E

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:17:10 +0000

113.com may be great if you happen to read, write and speak Japanese or is that Chinese?

By: Does it make sense to update your social networks via a voice call?

Does it make sense to update your social networks via a voice call? — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:41:05 +0000

[...] there’s a slight problem. Facebook has plans to allow you to update your status on other socnets, which would potentially kill Ping.fm and [...]

By: PixelPipe Launches Personal Media Syndication Service

PixelPipe Launches Personal Media Syndication Service — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:20:52 +0000

[...] is looking to solve this problem by offering a personal syndication service that is akin to a Ping.fm for media. After entering credentials for any of the site’s 50+ supported services, PixelPipe will [...]

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Ping.fm » Porres.com - Eric’s Humble Place in Cyberspace — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:18:10 +0000

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By: موقع

موقع — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:20:29 +0000

entirely safe and fun Very helpful!

By: Enrique Allen

Enrique Allen — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:30:30 +0000

Through the Psychology of Facebook and Data Mining and Electronic Business classes at Stanford, I propose the term:
Status Message Update (SMU).

SMU is a unit and mechanism of asynchronous light weight communication distributed to an audience. SMU can be a currency and service, similar to SMS.

Communicating “status” is essential to our most valuable source of capital- attention. We are experiencing a temporary attention micro-economy right at this moment if you are reading this. However, attention does not come in precise, indistinguishable units. SMU is a metric emerging from social media that can potentially help us better understand attention.

What is persuasive about SMU from both the individual and platform level?
Read more here: http://captology.stanford.edu/notebook

Feel free to shred to pieces, I am working on more concrete examples from Super Status and hopefully data directly from Facebook.

I appreciate your attention, even if I don’t know who you are.

Enrique Allen

By: Sal

Sal — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:37:20 +0000

ever since 2007?? that sounded funny since we we barley in April of 08.

Anyway, I have not used Hellotxt in awhile so maybe they have this feature but i love how i can send texts to Ping.fms email address and it will show up on Jaiku via my Sprint Mogul. Jaiku’s short code is not working on sprint

this is a good workaround til then.

By: markingegno

markingegno — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:47:45 +0000

@Rob Abbot - Now you don’t need any invite for the mobile. It’s no more beta and it’s open.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:06:25 +0000

Cheers from another .FM (Sleep) startup! Always good to see such throughout the blogosphere!

By: is this binding? | links for 2008-04-01

is this binding? | links for 2008-04-01 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:19:13 +0000

[...] Ping.fm Centralizes Status Updates, But Is It Enough? Duh! I have been using Ping since I heard about it from Dave Delaney. It is cool, but does not quite accomplish all goals. I would love it if it would check my email and send my netflix movie returns for me as well. (tags: Internet Social-Networking technology web2.0) [...]

By: 113.com

113.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:09:20 +0000

It’s enough!

By: Rob Abbott

Rob Abbott — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:51:47 +0000

I and others, especially those spinning their days in social media have been using HelloTxt eversince 2007.

HelloTxt is an impressive product and they rollout new features almost bi-weekly. You can update your status on all of the following networks simultaneously: LinkedIn, Facebook, Pownce, Twitter, Tumblr, Plaxo, Myspace, Meemi, Beemood, Hi5, Gozub, Frazr, Jaiku, Feecle, Fanfou, Mexicodiario, Numpa and Bebo. I only update on the first 6 platforms, most of the others, I didn’t even knew existed (besides the obvious).

Simple and easy to use AJAX interface, and most importantly a simple and usable experience.

Far superior than the other product listed above, I was actually shocked not to see HelloTxt as the headline. Considering the service is free and has saved me alot of time (use about once a day), I don’t mind explaining the product in detail.

http://hellotxt.com

Just waiting for the mobile beta invite!

By: Ryan Merket

Ryan Merket — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:17:55 +0000

http://ping.fm/ipod/

By: Raanan Avidor

Raanan Avidor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:19:58 +0000

I disagree. I think there is a good, strong and viable place for small application with a narrow set of functions. Think Adobe AIR.

By: RBasil

RBasil — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:13:36 +0000

@Collins

Thanks! HelloTxt.com works great!

By: Collins

Collins — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:59:31 +0000

HelloTxt.com is better than Ping.
HelloTxt have a sweet interface, post immeditely and they are on the market since september 2007. They have a mobile version and support many social network and microblogging.

By: RBasil

RBasil — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:58:17 +0000

The regular mobile page works, but when I try and visit i.ping.fm I get the error: Safari can’t open the page because it can’t find the server.”

By: dmg

dmg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:57:15 +0000

anybody think it’s weird that with services like ping.fm, we’re now updating all our containers at once, just to aggregate them back together with Friendfeed and the like? It all points to “curing” the same problem…. social-media-platform-itus.

How would this work with friendfeed? You’d aggreagate identical updates from all your social platforms.

By: RBasil

RBasil — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:47:53 +0000

The i.ping.fm website does not display on my iPhone. Looks like the beta of the iPhone website is not yet ready.

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:46:00 +0000

@Blowski - good points