• you can now upload a picture using the TwitterUpdater connector;
• it's now also possible to add a message to a picture published with the TwitPic connector.

To upload a picture to twitter, simply connect any image output to the new picture input. Publishing a message to twitpic is as easy as connecting a text output (e.g., using the TextInput connector) to the new message input.

First, find your Convore topic ID by going to your topic page and click on the "Edit topic title" button. You'll see that the URL will show your topic ID. Insert it into the TextInput connector above where you see <TOPIC_ID>. Then, save the workflow.

Now, if you haven't done so yet, go to the accounts tab and authorize tarpipe to publish to your Convore account. The only missing step is connecting your blog feed to this newly created workflow.

To do that, go to the feeds tab, enter your blog RSS feed URL on the form and choose the workflow from the list. Click "connect" and you're good to go. Any new blog post you write will be automatically published to your Convore topic.

See how we're doing it with our blog by visiting our "News and announcements" Convore topic. Have great conversations!

How does it work? You feed it text1 and text2 and an optional condition. The connector tries to compare both text inputs and will output text1 if the condition is met. Here's a list of supported conditions:

• == : will output text1 if it's exactly the same as text2;
• != : the opposite, will output the original text if both inputs are different;
• contains : will output text1 if it contains text2;
• !contains : the opposite, will succeed if text2 is not contained by text1.

How can this seemingly simple connector help you with your workflows? Let's say that you'd like to post an update on twitter, but only when the title contains the word "Announcement". You'd feed the title into text1, the word "Announcement" into text2 and the text "contains" into condition.

If the word is found, the original text is available on the output and the following workflow branch is executed. You can even have different branches matching different situations.

PS: Learn how to take advantage of tarpipe by creating workflows for different tasks.

Pinboard is a bookmarking website for introverted people in a hurry.

The Pinboard connector works in a similar way to the other bookmarking connectors. You feed in the url you want to bookmark, a title, an optional description, any comma separated tags and you can even tell if your bookmark will be public by using the shared input: it accepts a "yes" or "no" value, defaulting to "yes".

Convore is a quick way to communicate with groups of friends in real-time. Join public or private groups and talk about anything!

And now you can automatically publish a message on a Convore topic from within any workflow.

The Convore connector accepts two inputs: the message you want to publish and the topicId that identifies the topic where you want your message to appear. The topic ID is a numeric value and can be found on the topic page, when you click on the "Edit topic title" button. Its only output is the messageUrl which can be used as an input to update other services.

We think this connector might be interesting to update a list of followers on Convore with the latest announcements from your blog.

The Twilio connector accepts four inputs: the destination phone number that you want to call or send a text message to, an optional sender ID that can be your own phone number after validated by Twilio, and the contents of the SMS or voice phone call.

To start using this connector you must have your own Twilio account and you should authorize tarpipe to use it on your behalf by visiting the accounts tab. More information about this connector usage is also available on help.tarpipe.com.

It works by detecting if a given feed item has an attached image (also known as an enclosure) and, if it does, the image is posted to the connected REST workflow. The workflow should then receive the incoming image along with other information from the feed item, and push the image to connectors like Facebook, Flickr or Dropbox. Here's an example workflow that does that:

There are many use cases for this new feature: you can, for instance, automatically save new pictures from a Flickr search into your Dropbox. How you're going to use it is entirely up to you, but please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

You'll now be able to use the connector inside your workflows to upload pictures into any folder, making them automatically available on any computer that is synced with your Dropbox.

The Dropbox connector accepts three inputs: the picture you'd like to upload, which is required, the optional fileName and the folder where you want to upload. If you don't provide a file name we'll generate one for you. Likewise, if the folder is not specified, the picture will be uploaded to the root of your Dropbox.

The fileName and folder can be specified by using a TextInput connector, or by using any text output from other connectors. On success, the connector outputs the filePath which is the complete path of the picture that was uploaded.

We know that some of you would like to use more storage related connectors like this one. What do you think?

We wish to thank you for continually using tarpipe to automate your interactions with different Web services! While you're keeping us very busy, we're always working on ways to improve our service and add all the features that you're requesting. These are exciting times!

You don't have to change anything to make it work and start seeing properly formatted HTML messages from now on. If you're using the plain text body of messages for any particular processing you can still obtain it on the first MIME part of the message.

Please let us know how this new feature works for you. Thanks for your feedback!

We're now also showing the number of clicks on any post where bit.ly has been used. This information was already being shown whenever you used our share form, bookmarklet or widget, and now we're expanding this functionality to give you immediate insight about the popularity of the links you're sharing.

As always, please keep sending any questions or suggestions! I'd also like to thank the bit.ly team for their great support during these developments.

Now you can connect any feed to a tarpipe workflow and spread information throughout more than 20 different services. If there's a service that we don't support yet, you can make a call to a specific address or even extend tarpipe by creating your own connector.

When you connect a new feed we'll start executing the connected workflow whenever a new item is published. We'll extract the title, body and url from new feed items and inject them into your workflow's RestDecoder inputs. What happens next is entirely up to your imagination!

As an example, here's a way to automatically publish any Google Reader shared items into facebook and twitter:

And here's the connected Google Reader share workflow (click to zoom):

Feed reading is now available on the new "feeds" tab to users who have subscribed to a premium plan. Start connecting any RSS or ATOM feeds to your workflows and let your information fly around the Web!

We hope that feed reading is a useful feature making it even easier to publish content on different services. As always, thanks for all the feedback that you keep sending!

The connector is named Googl and its usage is very straightforward: it accepts the url you want to shorten and outputs the shortUrl obtained from goo.gl. This behavior is similar to other URL shortening connectors we already support: bit.ly, is.gd, PunyURL, TinyURL and whit.me.

Because distribution is a vital part of any Web application lifecycle, here's 3 great App Stores that we're using to distribute tarpipe and generate more visibility.

chrome web store's biggest advantage is that it comes bundled with Google's popular Web browser. With thousands of apps, the web store lets you start using a new application just by clicking on the "install" button.

To add your application you need some developer skills:

Your app can be a regular website with a bit of extra metadata that makes it easy to find in Google Chrome. Or it can be more specialized, such as an extension for Chrome or a web app that's been modified to be downloaded and run on the user's computer. — What is the Chrome Web Store?

You can customize the appearance with screenshots, custom banners or videos, like we did with the tarpipe application. If you'd like to charge for your application you can either use Chrome Web Store Payments or your own payment gateway.

Oneforty, the brainchild of Laura Fitton, co-author of the book Twitter for Dummies, "helps you discover thousands of tools that help you do more with your business, career or life using Twitter!".

Adding your application is a very easy process that only takes a few minutes and doesn't require any technical knowledge. Oneforty offers visibility through different lists of applications and something interesting called "toolkits".

Toolkits are created by users and bundle applications that might work well together. Example toolkits include Customer Support Tools, Social media distribution and Lead Generation Tools.

WordPress.org Plugin Directory is a huge distribution platform that can put your application in front of millions of bloggers. Installing your plugin doesn't require users to leave their blogs, so it's a great way to get distributed.

While creating a plugin isn't for anyone with no technical skills, once your plugin has been developed, distributing it is a breeze. To get started, the plugin should offer some type of interaction with the blog, but there are many options, from a simple blog widget, to a customized way of managing blog posts.

Our Share now! widget lets your blog users easily share your posts on social networks and is also available as a WordPress.org plugin.

The idea behind this project was to create a place where everybody could simply share a photo a day, posting all photos to the same “wall” and thus creating a big picture of what the world is seeing. — Nuno Loureiro

The project is using tarpipe to receive all the pictures and make them available online. We also created a special e-mail address so that it's easy to remember and distinguish from the automatically generated workflow e-mail addresses.

We found in tarpipe the best solution to start quickly while also maintaining the possibility to get up and switch service if tumblr goes south. In these uncertain times we can’t be sure on January 1st that any service will be online until the end of that year. We also wanted to keep it dead easy for anyone to contribute. — Nuno Loureiro

To participate just send a picture to dailyphotowall@tarpipe.net and, after a few moments, it will show up on the Daily Photo Wall!

You can now visit help.tarpipe.com and obtain information on some topics that we already documented. We'll be updating it all the time using your feedback, so please let us know what specific information you'd like to see covered.

To get started, we recommend you read about creating a workflow and how the TextFormatter connector really works.

The Zootool connector behavior is very similar to other bookmarking connectors, having two required inputs: the url and the title. Other inputs are self-explanatory but the shared input deserves special attention: it accepts a "yes" or "no" value, defaulting to "yes". You can change its value by linking a TextInput connector to it.

While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.

Delicious is a fantastic service and we're sad to know that Yahoo! is letting it go like this. Without knowing the future of Delicious, many users started looking for alternatives, and Diigo is certainly a great choice.

The Diigo connector accepts two required inputs: the bookmark url and title. Other inputs are self-explanatory but the shared input deserves special attention: it accepts a "yes" or "no" value, defaulting to "yes". You can change its value by linking a TextInput connector to it.

Now you can easily start saving bookmarks on both Delicious and Diigo, just by adding the Diigo connector to your workflow or simply by cloning the Mail to Delicious and Diigo workflow:

We hope you find the Diigo connector useful! Please let us know if you'd like us to support other social bookmarking services.

The goal of my presentation was to give a glimpse of what tarpipe offers and then listen to what WordPress users would like to have as a content distribution tool. That's exactly how this plugin is being built: by listening to you and knowing what features you value the most.

Right now, the plugin is being developed. If you'd like to test it and would like to suggest how it should work, please let us know in the comments below. Thanks for the feedback!

We're offering a one-year Flickr Pro account to all tarpipe annual subscriptions made during this Black Friday! Your Flickr Pro account will be sent to you as a Flickr gift code that you can use as you desire.

So, happy Thanksgiving and don't forget to share all your photos!

Note: Offer valid from Friday, November 26, 2010, 12am GMT until Friday, November 26, 2010, 11:59pm PST. To receive the offer you must buy an annual subscription of any tarpipe premium plan during this period.