Lummaland - Politik, Social Media, Leben, und anderes Gedöns

thanks for clarifying this, and don't worry about the tone. :)

Well, yeah in theory it does, but in practice I find I do a few similar things often enough to make their service useful to me. And you pre-define the trigger so it's quick and short, just a # and a couple of characters. And I don't use it for some things that it supports such as tumblr, mainly because shareaholic is more convenient. I agree with you - it doesn't make sense to update 30 services with the same information at once, and planning what to update is also a chore. But I just wanted to point out that it's more useful than that (and sorry, I could have been more polite, actually I hit enter a bit early on that previous post!)

I agree both of you. control matters but maybe reputation even more. if that `s the case than the social context gets important. or listening to conversations gets difficult without contexts - otherwise all services become a echochamber.

ok, thanks for the input, but that doesn't really make the service any simpler, doesn't it? instead of updating from within the context of a plattform, I do this from ping.fm and then try to trigger the right platforms so that the context somehow works out? that requires way too much thinking ahead for a few words...

I disagree - the thing that makes it useful are the custom triggers, so you can quickly indicate *which* services you want to update. So I have a trigger for facebook, twitter and linkedin as well as a trigger for just twitter and facebook. So rather than broadcasting updates everywhere, ping.fm gives you the fine control.