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Evan Hamilton replied on September 11, 2008 21:32 to the idea "What if Flock could publish your actions to Facebook for you?" in Flock:

Hey folks,

Just wanted to say thank you for all your feedback, it was great getting to put an idea out for some air before actually building it.

We are going to look into building something like this (no guarantees, but the investigation has begun). Would any of you, skeptics or supporters, be interested in beta testing this? I'd love to hear both sides of the coin in relation to the actual, physical product.

If you're interested, drop me an email at evan at flock dot com.

Flock on,

Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

A comment on the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

Glad to have it sorted out. – Ancyru, on August 21, 2008 11:54

A comment on the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

Indeed, my bad! :) I did noticed the Jaiku icon underneath the Ping.fm dropdown - but I didn't really noticed Twitter wasn't shown because of that. Thanks a lot! – Dinis Correia, on August 21, 2008 11:52

A comment on the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

I have mentioned this already, unfortunately it hasn't been followed much. http://bit.ly/20e7XF – Ancyru, on August 21, 2008 11:12

A comment on the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

The thing is, you don't end up with a double post. If you have Ping.fm selected you would see all the services lined up underneath to be sent to. Now if you have Twitter selected as well as Ping.fm, you will notice that Twitter is removed from the services lined up.

It's already smart enough, there is no double posting. – Ancyru, on August 21, 2008 11:11

RTPeat replied on August 21, 2008 10:38 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

I'm liking the ping.fm implementation, however I've got the "Adjust Grammar" setting enabled on ping.fm which isn't being picked up on by the socialthing routine that folds together duplicates, so for example spotting that "is testing ping.fm" and "Richard is testing ping.fm" are the same update.

Dinis Correia replied on August 21, 2008 10:37 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

Well, I *love* like the idea - however, I now feel that the options for some services should be redefined.

When I hit 'Post', all my services are selected - say, Twitter and Ping.fm. But since I also want to have my Twitter account on Ping.fm, I would end with a double post.

I think services that allow you to post updates should now have an option to disable the post feature for that specific service.

(Am I making any sense?)

A comment on the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

I have the same problem – zerock, on August 03, 2008 15:29

A comment on the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

It's now telling me to resend but actually posting my update. It's confusing to say the least. – Ancyru, on August 02, 2008 12:35

James Cridland replied on August 01, 2008 20:56 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

Cracking! Delivered! Cool!

A comment on the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

Yeah, we noticed this right after we deployed. We are working on a UI for the iPhone. – Wade Simmons, on July 31, 2008 17:37

Ancyru replied on July 31, 2008 13:01 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

Another thing, when updating with just the Ping.fm service ST! doesn't show the 140 character count anymore. It would be handy to still show it but not stop the text box at 140 characters like when posting to Twitter or Pownce.

Sorry for all the replies, I'm discovering each thing JUST after the 15 minute edit time.

Ancyru replied on July 31, 2008 12:41 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

There's one problem, the iPhone interface can't seem to follow through with the Ping.fm updates. I just get an error and it tells me to resend.

I keep trying to no avail.

Ancyru replied on July 31, 2008 12:04 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

I can't believe they've put this in.

My life is complete.

A comment on the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

It's in! The colors, deletion, & account merging is awesome, too. Wow guys... very well done. – beanj007, on July 30, 2008 23:06

beanj007 replied on July 30, 2008 15:44 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

Wow, this is huge. I can't wait for this.

Brian M replied on July 20, 2008 05:11 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

I am so excited to hear about this. I mentioned the idea in a ping.fm chat room, and [crickets]. I guess they were already on it. You guys really know what's up.

Ancyru replied on July 16, 2008 23:00 to the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing:

Dare I say, Socialping!

Brent Ozar started following the idea "Use ping.fm to post rather than Socialthing!" in SocialThing.

A comment on the idea "What if Flock could publish your actions to Facebook for you?" in Flock:

Evan - yes, that is completely useless to me, but maybe I'm not doing a good enough job of explaining.

I use Flock because I use social services. Not singular, plural - lots of social services. If I only used a couple of services, then I'd go to those sites directly and consume their data, but I use a lot of services because my friends are on a lot of different sites.

For that same reason, I've long since abandoned updating my statuses one at a time across all of the social networks. For that matter, I abandoned that approach with instant messaging clients years ago. You wouldn't come out with a new multi-service IM client today that forced you to update your statuses one at a time for each service, would you? How many people would actually use that? None - they'd wait for v2 to update all of their services at once. – Brent Ozar, on July 10, 2008 11:40