Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Ping.fm

So today I discovered Ping.fm. I was listening to a podcast from Paul Colligan (http://ping.fm/KEvL2 He's a bit of a nutball, but hugely entertaining to listen to and knows his stuff) about to intergrate all of the various social media outlets anyone would belong to and I realized that this is an extrememly powerful tool to get your message out to people who are on various sites.

We all have heard that time is money. I'll go one step simpler and just say that time isn't money, time is time! Someone once said that the greatest gift you can give anyone is the gift of time...and ping.fm does exactly that. I can now update multiple things with one tool. Facebook, Blogger, MySpace, LiveJournal....it's all in one place.

I love anything which intregates things in one place. One of the things I hated about "Web 1.0" was the fact that I had to go to 9 different locations to get in touch with my friends and collegues. Now, I have a tool where I can do it all at the touch of pretty much one button. For example, this blog post will post on 3 locations (http://ping.fm/2jrPn which also publishes on my Facebook page and http://ping.fm/UFzKI)

The other neat thing is they list the sites which link up to it and I have realized that I don't have accounts on a lot of these sites. I don't know where this journey is taking me and one day I hope to earn some money because of it, but I know that this tool will definately help me get there.

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