Being both a blogger.com and MSN Space user who blogs pretty often about interesting things go around the internet. Having blogged for a year now, have people really discover what I posted in my blogs. Well, I doubt so. By default, blogger only pings weblogs.com for updates and MSN I have no clue of where my updates are relayed to as it is only stated as ping server. The idea of blogging is to write things you love and share with the world but how can one achieve that without the world even knowing you ever existed. That puts me to think of a way to provide pinging mechanism for my own blogs. While pinging at pingomatic helps to broadcast my blog but it requires me to manual ping my blogs everytime and this doesn't sound like a good solution. Though pingomatic offers xmlrpc interface but it is only useful to more "ping friendly" software like Wordpress or Movable Types as they have built in xmlrpc support. This sets me thinking how can I relay my updates in an automatic manner! Well, the conclusion is autopinger. Through some simple googling and research, I realise we can take advantage of the xmlrpc platform and consolidate all the ping jobs into one common location that is totally disconnected from our own blogs. With the great idea of feed discovery and wonderful feed parsing library, we can do crawl and check your blogs to see if you have updated your content and relay your updates to the world. This serves the basic purpose of pinging and cuts away the dependency of blogging softwares to provide the ping mechanism. Now, everyone can continue to use your favourite blogging software and have autopinger to ping for you! Personally, I feel that this is no rocket science but it certainly helps people like myself and I believe millions of bloggers out there will like this convenience. It's a set-and-forget service and best of all, I have made this free for everyone! Go give it a try. sign up as a free member, set your blog information and you're done :-) Oh, by the way, autopinger can help you autoping your podcasts too! |
