I may have stumbled on a great workaround for the PingOut problem. When last I addressed this:
Ping.fm PingPlus Bookmarklet | myopiclunacy.comUPDATE (Nov 18, 2009): Commenter Andy pointed out another Ping.fm Bookmarklet on Mentoliptus that uses the PingOut popup. This popup is a hell of a lot nicer than the Ping This interface and gives you all the options of posting to single services or groups. Only thing is that it’s context insensitive. I tried passing parameters to it but it ignored them all. So for now I’ll continue using PingPlus as it is for context sensitive stuff until hopefully they update the PingOut interface to allow URL parameters. That would be the holy grail Ping bookmarklet!
Well, the Pingout page doesn’t accept URL parameters, but it seems the Dashboard page does! So a quick change to the PingPlus bookmarklet and we’re a lot closer to the holy grail:
PingDash
Works the same way except it takes you to the Ping.fm Dashboard with status already filled in and you have complete control over the services, groups, or whatever you want to Ping.
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That’s fantastic — great work!
Have you posted this over to GetSatisfaction?
Comment by Andy — November 24, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
it’s there in one thread but not all of them. i noticed a hitch where the querystring doesn’t work the first time but subsequent times. Might be a timeout on the ping side but I’m not sure
Comment by webadmin — November 24, 2009 @ 2:06 pm