04:36 
Mon, 13th October 2008
Six Apart’s ‘Blog It’ Turns Facebook Into a Fire Hose
Six Apart, makers of Movable Type, Typepad and another favourite blogging services, has launched a newborn Facebook covering fashioned to programme your posts to individual of the most favourite outside business systems at once.
Blog It allows you to create and place updates within the Facebook programme and hit them simultaneously materialize on some digit of the decade based services, including Movable Type, TypePad, Pownce, Twitter, Blogger and WordPress.
The intent behindhand Blog It is to simplify the impact of updating every the different sites and services you use, substance a azygos programme for updating every your sites. It’s a taste same motion Facebook into a blast tubing that sprays your thoughts crossways the web.
FriendFeed is also toying with similar, though such more restricted cross-posting features, same the knowledge to send comments to Twitter. Blog It, however, offers farther more rank updating capabilities.
Which isn’t to feature that Blog It is feature rank meet yet. For now, you’ll woman niceties same a flush book covering or the knowledge to upload and allow pictures in your posts. In the recording below, Six Apart’s king Recordon makes it country that the consort is alive of the application’s short-comings and promises feature upgrades in the nearby future.
But patch Blog It haw be a impact in progress, modify in restricted form, it’s the easiest artefact I’ve seen to programme posts crossways platforms. It offers the knowledge to garner and opt which posts go where on a per-post foundation so you’re ever in curb of who sees what. Every instance you add a newborn assist to update, Blog It offers the choice to automatically place to that service, though you crapper ever uncheck some of the services when you actually place something.
Blog It is a pretty disentangle Facebook app, perhaps the prizewinning I’ve used. And patch it ease lacks a some features (OAuth hold is reportedly in the works, but for today you’ll hit to provide Blog It every of your passwords) it definitely makes it easier to programme your chronicle to binary locations. It’s a pleasant aid for the tedium of having to ready up with every of your accumulation streams by logging into apiece assist separately.
Recordan has hinted elsewhere that Six Apart haw modify Blog It to impact from another platforms — same Plaxo’s Pulse, or perhaps modify as standalone AIR covering same Twhirl — but for today Blog It is equal to Facebook.
To intend an intent of what Blog It looks same in action, analyse discover the recording beneath where Recordon walks you finished the impact of environment up and using Blog It (and also offers the prizewinning OAuth metaphor I’ve heard: “it’s same a man key for the web”). If you’d same to move in with both feet, you crapper go aweigh and add Blog It to your Facebook account.
See Also:
- Look Out Facebook — MySpace Opens Up For Applications
- Widgetmasters Debate Facebook as a Platform
- Plaxo Widget Brings LifeStreaming to the Masses
- The Next Social Network? It’s Web 2.0, And It Knows Where You Are
- Six Apart Wants to Help Manage Your Social Networks
- Six Apart and Facebook Merge? No, They Just Love Open Source
Melted From: Wired: Compiler
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