Ping.fm Blog Ping.fm makes it possible to post to all of your social networks with a single message. http://ping.fm/?from=rss\ Copyright 2009 Standard Antics LLC en-us Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:07:17 -0500 support@ping.fm Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:06:17 -0500 support@ping.fm Ping.fm v1 http://ping.fm/_images/rss.jpg Ping.fm http://ping.fm/ Ping.fm makes it possible to post to all of your social networks with a single message. 48 48 <![CDATA[New Friends, Better Connections]]> Hello again Pingland! We've come back again with some new stuff that you might take kindly to. Gonna keep this short and sweet, so prepare!

We've added two new sites to our arsenal. Everyone welcome Ning and MerchantCircle to the ever-growing list of unstoppable awesomeness.

For those who plan to add Ning, you can currently only add one site connection, but we are researching the best way to provide multiple sites support. This goes along with the other services that people want multiples of too. So, just know it's coming!

Aside from the new adds, we've improved connections with Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed. We've moved authentication over to OAuth for Twitter and Friendfeed.

For Facebook, we've moved the setup process over to Facebook Connect. You no longer have to add the Ping.fm Facebook app to connect your account and pages.

Awesome!

In lieu of keeping this short, we will leave you with that. We have incredible new stuff coming real soon, so keep an eye out for that.

Until next time,

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm]]> http://ping.fm/blog/new-friends-better-connections/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/new-friends-better-connections/?from=rss#1255554437 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:07:17 -0500 <![CDATA[Trackin' Away]]> Some of you have been already informed of our latest feature added to our menagerie of awesome. For those who have not, here it is.

Link stats!

That's right. If you are a fan of our URL shortener, and are familiar with it's antics, you will be glad to know that you can now track incoming statistics on the URLs you generate.

We track all sorts of cool information like link visits, unique visits, referrals and referral country origination. This is all presented to you in a fancy interface that let's you see how well your posted links are tracking with your social network audiences. We think it's pretty rad!

While we gather some feedback from you folks, we will be pondering other statistics you might want to see on your links and adding to the output every so often. You should totally give us a shout and put some bugs in our ears.

This is a user-opt in feature that you can turn on here.

If you're curious for more, you can read all about how this works right over heeeeere!

We have more stuff coming out soon, so keep on the lookout for forests full of unexplainable and ridiculous magic.

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm]]> http://ping.fm/blog/trackin-away/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/trackin-away/?from=rss#1253051382 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:49:42 -0500 <![CDATA[What does it all mean?]]>
We run daily snapshots of databases to ensure data integrity for situations like this. About 6 days ago, the backups started to crash out and not save properly.

This is bad for a few reasons: We dump backups for situations just like this. When we cant restore from last day's backup, it forces us to restore from an older one. We have to repeat that process until one takes and is restored successfully.

That being said. The last backup we had successfully post was 5 days ago (09.06.2009). Not cool at all.

While we have restored services, we are still working on restoring the last 5 days of data.

What's this mean for you?

New users within the last 5 days won't have an account anymore, any changes you've made to your services (i.e. updating passwords) will need to be reapplied, all short links posted in those 5 days will be invalid and redirect to the Ping.fm homepage and recent message lists will be behind 5 days.

Outside of the missing days, the service is back and running 100%. If you notice anything unusual with your account or posted messages, please shoot us a support e-mail (support@) and someone will be there to assist.

We apologize for these interruptions and are doing what we can to restore the missing data. You know us, we love to work! Check our Twitter feed for updates on things to come with this as well as the new stuff we are about to introduce into the pingosphere.

Cheers!

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm
@pingfm]]> http://ping.fm/blog/what-does-it-all-mean/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/what-does-it-all-mean/?from=rss#1252438888 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:41:28 -0500 <![CDATA[Plug In With Conduit (And More!)]]> We know it's been ages since our last fancy blog update. To be honest, we've been seriously busy beyond blogging. We've been hard at work increasing the ping power as well as adding some handy dandy new features.

So, first things first, let's talk about what we have new for you.

If you haven't noticed already, we've put some cool little banners up on the dashboard about a "Ping.fm Toolbar." For those of you wondering, yes it's the latest addition to our methods of posting. We've been working with Conduit, using their very cool toolbar creation platform to create a Ping.fm browser toolbar. Yes, now everyone that has been salivating over such feature can finally end the hunger pangs.

This toolbar is pretty slick. It's supported on Firefox, IE and Safari browsers. And, any time we feel like adding new stuff to it, the toolbar will automatically update without you having to download a new version. We think it's awesome!

For those of you already using other Conduit toolbars (like the CrunchBar), you can easily add the Ping.fm straight to the existing toolbar without downloading a new one.

If THAT interests you, head on over to the Conduit Marketplace and check check check that out. Search for Ping.fm in the Conduit Marketplace to see the dealies we've created.

We hope you enjoy what we've done with Conduit to further improve the giant we call Ping.fm. As always, if you have any questions or problems with the new toolbar, just drop us a line and let us know about it. Be sure to check the "Ping.fm Browser Toolbar" product too, so we know you're talking about it.

But wait! There's more! (R.I.P. Billy Mays):

We've added two new sites to the Ping.fm consortium!

Everyone welcome Yahoo Profiles (formerly Yahoo 360) and Tagged.

These are two services that we've had an immense amount of request for, and now it's done! So enjoy!

We promise not to wait so long for updates like this next time.

Enjoy the new,

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm]]> http://ping.fm/blog/plug-in-with-conduit-and-more/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/plug-in-with-conduit-and-more/?from=rss#1248885406 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:36:46 -0500 <![CDATA[Facebook Pages, Grooveshark & Metadata]]> We've officially launched support for Facebook Pages. You can now add your Facebook fan pages as you would any other service we support. What does this mean to you? Well, if you're a business, artist, celebrity, public figure or any other entity that has a fan page for your people to come hang out with you on Facebook, then now you can not only update your Facebook profile status, but your messages will be syndicated to your fan page as well.

If you're still a bit lost, head on over to our fan page to see what they're all about.

In addition to this slick update, we've added some new message posting options to more personalize your posts. We're talking about tagging and mooding.

What, you say?!

Tons of users have asked for the ability to tag posts with tags they specify to help them catalog the posts on the various services they are using. We've done work, and now you can reap the benefits!

Tagging is now a part of your everyday pinging experience. Posting photos, links, blogs; if you post it, you can tag it. Click here to learn all there is to know about tagging your posts.

As well as tagging, be sure to check out how to also include mood tags in with posts. Now you can tell everyone how you feel with as little effort as possible (or something).

Last but not least, we bring you to a nice little gem we just added as of last night. With the vast improvements to the user dashboard we are rolling out, we decided to go ahead and sneak one of the updates into production so you can get busy with it.

We've added a new icon above the post form that resembles a music note. If you were to click this cute little button, you will be presented with a screen that allows you to attach songs to your messages you post. Cool huh?

Let us introduce you to Grooveshark. Grooveshark is this awesome web service that allows anyone and everyone to search for music and play it straight from their website. Their library is intense too. We've had quite a hard time not finding songs we want to hear. And the best part about their service is that it's FREE.

Yes, absolutely free. You don't even have to sign up to search and listen (though you probably should).

This is just a tip of the iceberg on the up and coming user dashboard improvements. So, you will be seeing more very soon.

Don't forget to tell your friends!

Be safe, and keep up the ping.

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm]]> http://ping.fm/blog/facebook-pages-grooveshark-and-metadata/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/facebook-pages-grooveshark-and-metadata/?from=rss#1241647447 Wed, 06 May 2009 17:04:07 -0500 <![CDATA[Blip.fm Rises To The Occasion]]> We just wanted to drop by and share some cool news with the pingfolk. Today, Blip.fm announced their integration into our ever-growing-in-popularity developer API.

If you aren't familiar with Blip.fm, they are a social network similar to Twitter, only they allow you to post inline music with your updates (Check out Sean's Blip.fm page). It's a great concept and it's fun to use. You should check it out for sure.

With their integration, you can now post tracks from their interface and have them automatically pinged into the pingosphere with no effort at all.

Cool huh?

We think so!

Also, be sure to check out ShoutEm and StreetMavens (incidentally, a Tulsa-based site) as we now support posting messages to their services. Wee!

Keep in touch, pingites. We got more cool stuff coming soon.

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm]]> http://ping.fm/blog/blip-fm-rises-to-the-occasion/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/blip-fm-rises-to-the-occasion/?from=rss#1240352220 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:17:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Skype, Intl. SMS, HootSuite & Notify.me]]> It's been a little bit since we had one of these rad update blogs. So, here it is. This one will be extra special too. Not only are we announcing some new features, we're also announcing some really cool application integrations that have just hit the circuit.

First off, let me go into what's new at Ping.fm. We've taken two of the most requested features wanted by you guys and made them happen. Not saying that this will be all. This is just the tip of the up and coming iceberg monster of features we will be pouring out in the coming weeks. This is merely a sample of awesome!

First, we've ramped up our SMS services to now support posting SMS messages from inside of Europe. That's right, all you pingers from across the pond can now use an international number to ping your pingy goodness! We're sorry it took so long to get this rolling. We had to spend a lot of time researching the best way to make this happen. Luckily @DanLane came to the rescue and provided us an awesome solution for taking care of you guys. So, be sure to give him a tip and a follow for being so resourceful and technologically advanced. Hats off to you!

Second, we've created a Skype posting bot. Now, in addition to our army of other bots, you can add Skype to that list. Cool, huh?

Now that we've gone over what's new with us, let's talk about what's new with some other guys we've been working with.

Everyone, meet notify.me and HootSuite. These are some of the awesome new integrations we have on our developer API.

Why should you care? This is why!

HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage your entire Twitter experience from one easy-to-use interface. Pre-schedule your tweets, send updates from multiple accounts at once, track clicks with the ow.ly URL shortener, and much more.

To make things even sweeter, HootSuite is introducing integration with Ping.fm. Now the tweets you schedule with HootSuite can be automatically sent to your other social networking accounts via Ping.fm.

So, there you have it. HootSuite is incredible. And, no, they aren't paying for that plug!

So yeah, now let's talk about notify.me. One of the biggest requests from users is having the ability to feed in your social network timelines. With notify.me, your problems are pretty much solved.

notify.me has this crazy little app that allows you to syndicate any sort of feed from any type of source and have it stream back to you however you want. E-mail, IM, SMS, apps, widgets...anything you use regularly, you can have your updates delivered to it. Think of it like a digital paperboy, bringing all your internet goodness right to your eDoorstep. Lovely, isn't it?

With all of this being said, you should gear up and check these guys out. I know you're all about the latest and greatest and they've definitely hit the nail on the head.

Thanks to @GeraldBuckley and his office space hook up, we are in prime time feature-crank-out mode and will be flooding the pingosphere with awesome awesome.

Yeah, that's right, awesome awesome.

Stick around pingers, it's starting to get real good.

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm]]> http://ping.fm/blog/skype-intl-sms-hootsuite-and-notify-me/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/skype-intl-sms-hootsuite-and-notify-me/?from=rss#1239228089 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:01:29 -0500 <![CDATA[Post-SXSW '09 Round-up]]> As you know, we spent the past week at SXSW '09. We had an incredible attending, and hope to come back again next year. We want to thank all of the businesses and users we met who are familiar with our stuff and had nothing but great things to say about us. Hope to see everyone again in the future. Apologies to those who we planned to meet/hang and didn't get the chance too. There is always next year!

Big thanks to the massive crowd that turned our for our co-sponsored party. We had an incredible time and we're absolutely thrilled to have everyone come out. I hope everyone had as good of a time as we did. Maybe we will put together another shindig soon.

Now that we are back and in full force, we are right back in the grind of improving Pingland on all efforts. We're about to roll out some pretty cool stuff (after we fix some stuff) that we think you will take quite the fancy to.

Stick around and keep up the ping.

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm

Oh, and, happy b-day to us. :)]]> http://ping.fm/blog/post-sxsw-09-round-up/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/post-sxsw-09-round-up/?from=rss#1237786638 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:37:18 -0500 <![CDATA[Come Hang Out At SXSW '09]]> We're gearing up to take the 9 hour journey to Austin for the SXSW convention. This will be our first year to attend, and we're pretty stoked.

We will be in Austin late Thursday night all to the way to Wednesday the 18th. We know a lot of Ping users are going as well as a slew of partners/supported websites/fans/haters and the likes. We're excited to take time to meet face-to-face with some of you guys, and have a perfect venue to do just that.

We're co-sponsoring a meet-up/party on Sunday night March 15th with Gnomedex, Seesmic and BlogHer. The event is "sold out" as far as occupancy goes, but don't let that stop you from coming by and saying hello as I'm sure people will be in and out throughout the evening. It's going to be quite rad. You can get the full details here: http://ping.fm/0qyDj

You can follow our antics from our Twitter stream below. Or, you can follow us personally.

@pingfm
@seamoss
@adams_antics
@jyoseph
@pinglive

Look forward to meeting people and having a good time. This year's SXSW looks to be a rager.

Cheers,

Adam, Sean & Joe]]> http://ping.fm/blog/come-hang-out-at-sxsw-09/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/come-hang-out-at-sxsw-09/?from=rss#1236798373 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:06:13 -0500 <![CDATA[Expanding Family and Awesome]]> There comes a time where we have to really go all out and make something really awesome. I believe that time is right this second. We've spent the last week adding two new sites as well as two new incredible and very highly demanded features.

First, let's start off by saying we've added two of the hottest Six Apart, Vox and TypePad. So everyone give them a nice and warm welcome!

Last, and definitely not least, we've added status update support for BOTH AIM screen names and Google Talk screen names. Yes, that's right. You can update your screen name status through any of the many Ping.fm posting methods. You can even update your screen name status from your screen name. How wild and absurd is that? I don't think you can handle it.

But you should try.

But alas, this brings us to the end of blog/update! As a reminder, always check back here for crazy awesome new stuff we always dish out.

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm

(Blog powered by folk music and sugar-free Red Bull)

Update / Edit:
Pictures sent through e-mail will automatically be posted inline on these services: Blogger, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Xanga, Wordpress, Multiply and Yahoo 360

Cheers
]]> http://ping.fm/blog/expanding-family-and-awesome/?from=rss http://ping.fm/blog/expanding-family-and-awesome/?from=rss#1235423617 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:13:37 -0600