Ping.fm is my new best friend, and it should be yours too!
What is ping.fm?
“Ping.fm” is a service that allows you to post to all your microblogs and social networks at once. “Ping.fm” is a much more efficient way to post.
We all have many friends and contacts across the many multiple social networks. Some friends are only on one or two of the different networks, and being able to post to all at once just makes sense. “Ping.fm” makes it so everyone is in the know about your lifestreams.
“Ping.fm” currently supports many networks including the following:Bebo, brightkite, facebook, twitter, wordpress.com, blogger, friendfeed, identi.ca, jaiku, hi5, kwippy, linkedin, livejournal, mashable, myspace, plaxo pulse, plurk, pownce, tumblr, xanga, and I’m sure “Ping.fm”" will add many more before it’s all said and over.
“Ping.fm” has many options for posting, you can apply a filter for each network, or choose to post as a blog post, microblog, or status update. You can use triggers to send “ping.fm” updates to only certain networks that you choose. You can also choose to only send “ping.fm” updates to the networks setup as microblogs as well.
You can also post to “ping.fm” by many third party services including: Aol Instant Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, IGoogle Gadget, Facebook App, Iphone app, mobile app, or email, or just via their site.
Along with that there’s also a new wordpress plugin for “ping.fm” that I found yesterday called “pingpress.fm“. It replaces such services like wordplurk, or twitter tools by sending an update to all your networks each time you post a new blog post, it’s pretty genius. Definitely a great tool to have around for your lifestreaming needs.
The Pingpress.fm plugin can be downloaded here.
“Pingpress.fm” is a great way to increase the traffic to your blog. Since using “pingpress.fm” I’ve gotten about 15 new subscribers in one day, and noticed a huge increase in my traffic.I highly recommend using “ping.fm” and “pingpress.fm” if you want to take your traffic to higher levels.
Be sure to try out “ping.fm” and “pingpress.fm” and let me know what you think.
Special note – updating all these services also means replies will only come to those networks, which is why I recommend combining “ping.fm” with friendfeed for the best results.
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I just installed ping.fm’s PingPressFM plugin in a self hosted wordpress site. API key, PHP version and CURL module have been verified.
I am stuck at setting the “trigger”. Under the “Current Trigger”, clicking the drop down arrow gives me two choices:
“(Off) undefined (@undefined)”
“—Create New Trigger”
I chose “—Create New Trigger” and checked “Trigger is active” box, accepted the remaining defaults, and clicked “Create Trigger”, and then saved it by clicking “Update Options” button.
Now I get an error that says, “None of your triggers are active!” …
Can any one help me here … please … I tried emailing the developer, but no reply so far.
Please help. Thank you.
What you need to do is where it says current trigger, you need to choose microblog.
Then set the trigger to active.
Add any changes to the way you want it to display mine looks like this:
[Blog] $subject: $slink
— Now you need to click on Update Trigger.
THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY YOU NEED TO CLICK UPDATE OPTIONS at the very bottom under the yellow box -
I know it’s stupid but I had the same problem you’re probably having I kept updating triggers – but that only saves it
temporary then deletes it when you leave the page. You need to update the options too for it to stick.
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for the reply.
I think, I am giving up on PingPressFM plugin. I did all what you said here, but no sucess.
I am now trying twitterfeed.com and hope that will work.
Alright, sorry it didn’t work for ya – I think there may be other ones that do work.