Pixelpipe, a Web service that lets you syndicate text, audio, video and image files to 75 social networks, blogs and sites, is launching a new version that will allow you to customize the landing page of your Pixelpipe account to look more like your profile on Facebook or Twitter. The new version targets the micro-blogging networks and sites, giving users the ability to send various types of media files through shortened urls across several different social networks.
Like TwitPic, Pixelpipe will now let you Tweet a link to a picture, video, PDF file or audio file (using a new shortened url with the domain of http://pi.pe). The url will then link back to your customized Pixelpipe page. Pixelpipe will also let you send a short url for a page hosting media content via a Facebook status update or your FriendFeed stream.
And sort of like a Ping.fm for media, Pixelpipe automatically distributes any new audio files, images, or videos to your profiles on social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed. You can choose to group these services by tags, so you can be more selective about where you’d like to to post the content. Pixelpipe also has native mobile apps for the iPhone, Nokia N Series, and Android and has clients compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac desktops.
The new version targets the micro-blogging networks and sites, giving users the ability to send various types of media files through shortened urls across several different social networks. Pixelpipe’s new customized landing page feature lets you create various backgrounds and titles for your page, and view comments on your page. Currently, Pixelpipe’s application supports video, image and file content distribution to Britekite, Friendfeed, Identi.ca, Jaiku, Kwippy, Ping.fm, Plerb, PLURK, Rejaw, Youare.com and will roll out the service to Facebook, hi5, Imeem and MySpace next week.
Pixelpipe’s CEO and founder, Brett Butterfield, says that this new version could be especially useful to companies which want to publish media content across several sites and social networks at once and still be able to retain the user experience of a brand by leading viewers of the content back to a customized, branded page.
There are other applications that help you easily publish images, videos and text files to your micro-blogging accounts. Ping.fm does this for texts, TwitPic has mastered this for photos to Twitter, and HeySpread lets you publish videos to a number of social networking sites. And you can also easily copy and paste the link of your YouTube video in your Twitter feed or Facebook status update. But the virtue of Pixelpipe is that it lets you publish all types of files, to various social networks and sites from one centralized place, which makes it worth a look.
Here are some screenshots of a user’s Twitter page and the Pixelpipe page you can create to mirror your Twitter page:
This would be for porn, my favorite hobby.
would love to know how you’d compare this to Posterous which does a similar thing and is very adept and extracting the embed codes for video links and giving you a choice of which media you’d like to post from a site/page you’re sharing.
Posterous also let’s you submit updates via email. It’s a good service that seems to directly compete with PixelPipe. If you have time, please update your review to include a comparison. cheers
also, i’m going to claim “first” on this because the comment by Teenage Kid should not count.
http://www.posterous.com
example at http://baratunde.posterous.com
actually the best example would be
http://techcrun...h.posterous.com
PixelPipe has mobile phone apps and they support more media sites than Posterous. And an obvious difference is that Posterous has no theming… yet.
Pixelpipe also supports email/MMS uploads as well as providing a huge selection of native applications and plug-ins for upload to the Social Web.
We provide native applications for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and even Linux. You can check out our selection of free software at http://pixelpipe.com/tools/
I love pixelpipe, I use it on my g1 to post media on my social networks, and post articles to my blogs. Works like a charm, compared to a lot of other similar services.
This would be for porn, my favorite hobby.
what is stopping from twitter innovating at the moment. It seems like they haven’t introduced any new features for ages.
Another thing. What is going on with the speed on the site. Is this simply down to how fast they are growing and lack of revenue streams? The speed problem is the only part of me which wants google to buy it so they can put it on some amphetamine powered servers…
The annoying thing about twitter is that you need to use so many 3rd party apps for it to become an enjoyable experience when it would be so much nicer if they put it all for us in one neat place…
“TwitPic has mastered this for photos to Twitter”
Except that TwitPic sucks big time these days. Seriously, they move to a new datacenter and it just collapses?
We differentiate from TwitPic in that we support posting of Photos, Video, Audio and even files to Twitter. Another big feature is that we support automatic link posting to britekite, friendfeed, identi.ca, Jaiku, kwippy, Ping.fm, plerb, PLURK, Rejaw, Twitgoo, youare.com as well as Twitter.
We also have a shorter domain name with pi.pe and a massively scalable back end so the service is really zippy fast. Give us a try and I’m sure you’ll be impressed.
I use posterous for this and it works really well
I thought PixelPipe’s presentation was one of the most lackluster of the group last night… It left me with a big, unanswered “so what?” I thought the product was incomplete and the offering’s value was questionable, especially in lieu of the billion other services tackling the same issue.
The MightyBrand demo, however — now THAT was interesting, especially to small- and mid-sized businesses priced out of Radian 6.
Sorry you didn’t enjoy the presentation last night. You were however in the minority since we did win audience choice with more votes then any other presentation, this included MightBrand.
You did win that audience choice? You know, that’s really great! And I do wish you the best success. =)
Oh — I was particularly impressed by LilGrams, as you’ll see here: http://jolieode...04/09/lilgrams/
“Of all the presentations this evening (and indeed, among all the pitches I’ve been thrown over lo these many months), LilGrams stands out as being a complete, well-developed product that is currently and immediately fundable.”
Great article however one thing that may not have been obvious from the examples at the end is that the 2nd image is of the digitytot landing page on Pixelpipe. The page was customized by simply uploading the same background image to Pixelpipe and sending media through us to Twitter.
You can create your own custom pi.pe landing page by setting up your preferences under Settings after logging in to Pixelpipe.
I can see how it would be convenient for the posting user to be able to make one post that goes to his Twitter, Facebook, Stumble, Shared Google Reader items, blog, etc.
But it seems like a pain for the consumer of the user’s tweets, updates, rss feeds and so on. If I connect with you on more than one medium, I’d rather you choose where you really want to publish and direct me there with the others, rather than sending disparate pieces of the same idea all over your different points of presence.
I love PixelPipe – great for those who have bandwidth caps like myself.
Upload a video once, and it ends up on Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
Awesome.
Great to see Pixelpipe grow and add more customizable features!
I use both posterous and pixelpipe very regularly.
They both have different context I feel, posterous is in my opinion is more of a blogging platform. Whereas pixelpipe is a application which helps me simultaneously manage my media uploads to various site.
One can use pixelpipe to send mails to posterous too.
What I am trying to say is, pixelpipe is an application cum platform and posterous a platform cum application.
It will be the best combo if both were to come together and provide a common service.
I tried PixelPipe, and it left me with a few questions. First, is there a landing page that will display all of my uploads and status messages sent with the service (akin to a profile page)? And second, can I use the shorter pi.pe domain as a normal url shortener so I can post links to twitter or facebook?
Thanks
How are these guys gonna make money?
i LOVE this concept, but so far it has been pretty shaky on getting all of the data to all of the pipes at the same time!
in my experience there are problems handling MMS.
the pipe into facebook and myspace works nicely though.
>>How are these guys gonna make money?
I’m sure you’ll either 1) See ads starting to appear everywhere, or 2) You’ll have to pay once you hit an upload/bandwidth limit… or both.