Update Facebook Pages (And Everything Else) With Ping.fm
Apr 30, 2009 Mashable
Ping.fm has become a standby one-stop notification service for all of your favorite social networks, and with recent HootSuite and Notify.me integration, you can send and receive notifications from almost anywhere.
But, until today, there was one noticeable missing feature: the ability to ping your Facebook Pages, a necessity for page admins who manage multiple social media sites. Ping.fm has risen to the challenge, so now you can automatically ping any of the Facebook Pages you administer with updates and photos.
To setup Ping.fm for Facebook Pages, follow their instruction guide. Essentially, you’ll need to add the Ping.fm Facebook application to the pages you administer. It’s a bit of a tricky setup process, so make sure you follow the instructions carefully.
Once the Facebook setup is complete, and you grant permissions for the appropriate pages, you can return to Ping.fm and adjust the Facebook Pages settings. Your options include posting status updates, notes, and photos to pages.
Even though the setup process is more complicated than we’d like, having the functionality to post updates via Ping.fm to Facebook Pages is worth it. And, it’s just another reason why brands should really love the new look and feel of Facebook.
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Tags: facebook pages, ping.fm
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Social Networking Watch: Disney Buys Into Hulu, YouTube Should Be …
Apr 30, 2009 Social Media, Social Networking, Video, Web
TECH CRUNCH — Apr 30 — As Hulu continues its spectacular rise in popularity, it just got major buy-in from yet another major media company. Disney is now an investor, joining News Corp and NBC (along with private equity firm…
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TweetPhoto: TwitPic Finally Gets a Real Competitor
Apr 30, 2009 Mashable
TwitPic’s become an integral component to the Twitter experience. Its service, when combined with real-time tweets, has allowed for ground-breaking photo journalism and instant celebrity tweetmemes.
But with all its glory, TwitPic does have its shortcomings. The service has been plagued with oddities and shortages, and it’s yet to evolve in feature set or function. So, if TwitPic isn’t satisfying your Twitter photo sharing needs, you can turn to brand new competitor, TweetPhoto.
TweetPhoto’s offering, available today, includes a plethora of photo-specific features that make it easy to appreciate your own shared photos, and the favorites from your friends, long after your tweet is lost in the real-time stream.
TweetPhoto works like TwitPic in that you use your Twitter name and password to use the site. It also supports uploads by email or mobile, and comments, but that’s where the similarities with TwitPic end.
TweetPhoto users can post their photos to Twitter and Facebook, favorite other photos on the site, see who’s viewing their photos, track stats, geo-tag (it’s automatic from a GPS-enabled phone), moderate comments, search all photos by tags, and even sort photos by Twitter or Facebook friends.
The beauty of TweetPhoto, is that all of these goodies are easily accessible and discoverable from your dashboard view of photos hosted on the site. Tabs across the top navigation make it easy to view your photos, return to favorites, browse friends’ photos, and check out the public stream.
Can It Beat The Competition?
In the Twitter photo space there’s also Pix.im, yFrog and Twixtr, neither of which have managed to steal any thunder from TwitPic.
We’d be remiss not to point out the similarities between the photos-for-Twitter battle and the original microblogging coup d’etat that never came to fruition (remember Jaiku and Pownce?). TweetPhoto, and the rest of the bunch will need to work their way into your hearts and minds if they want to survive.
They can certainly better compete now that more Twitter apps are supporting alternative photo uploading options. And, TweetPhoto definitely has more than a few features we love, but is it enough? Share your thoughts on TweetPhoto, whether you’ll use it, and how you think they can supplant TwitPic in the comments.
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Tags: photo sharing, tweetphoto, twitpic, twitter
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Facebook Auto-Generates Friend Lists and Suggests Users
Apr 30, 2009 General, Mashable, Mobile 2.0, Social Media, Social Networking, Video, Web, Web Apps
Recently, we’ve been preaching the benefits of organizing your Facebook friends into lists to give you better control over privacy and information overload . Now, Facebook is making it easier for you to take advantage of these settings, with a redesign of its “Friends†page (one of the main links in Facebook’s navigation).
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Social Networking Watch: Facebook Rumored To Be Looking For More …
Apr 30, 2009 Social Media, Social Networking, Web
TECH CRUNCH — Apr 30 — Facebook is reportedly still in the process of talking to several private equity firms about a significant follow-up investment in the company.
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