An outlet for my obsession with technology
Pinggr – meta micro blogging
Or just what I coded to I could lean how to use facebook connect…
Background
When facebook connect was released I wanted to code something to see how it all worked. I wanted to code something I could prop up relatively quick. Partly due to my lack of time but also because I have not released one single piece of software all year! I decided that, since I was just hopping into the land of twitter and I found it complicated to manage my twitter status and my facebook status, that I would write a small app that would allow me to update the status of each site either concurrently or independently.
Specifications
- support facebook connect : (100%)
- local uid/pass system : (80%)
- update facebook status : (100%)
- update twitter status : (100%)
- update local status : (100%)
- private status updates : (100%)
- support tags : (100%)
- support date/time updates (past, present and future) : (70%)
- provide meaningful statistics : (30%)
- support a public profile/time line page. http://pinggr.com/detroitpro : (50%)
- mobile version : (10%)
- simple API : (0%)
Out of scope
- Clone twitter
- I am thinking that it would more sit “on top” of the status update services.
- Full “router” support aka: act like ping.fm
Features I would like to add in the future
- Twitter style reply and dm
- openid support
- more status sites
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about 1 year ago
I really like what you’ve done, and was a bit surprised when you took it offline from http://pinggr.com I actually thought at first that this was a new startup that wasn’t getting covered by TC or the other big-wig tech news sites.
about 1 year ago
Thanks, I too have been thinking about it…everytime twitter updates my facebook and when I want to post something that happened in the past…or just about something.
I think the idea of adding date specific features to a micro-blogging service has merit. Coupled with a sound API and other interfaces to populating it with data it could be used for so much more. Truth is, pinggr started as my test of facebook connect and the ideas grew out of that. I am not at all happy with the underlying implementation and some of the features suck…tags? really…they should just twitter style hash codes….
Depending on how busy Technology Aces is in 2009 (swamped at the moment) pinggr could very well come back as a though out app.