Monday, June 27, 2011

Pixelpipe Lets You Post Everywhere at Once




Posting messages on separate accounts wastes a lot of time, especially now that it's not unusual for a person to have accounts on multiple online networking sites. This rings especially true in the case of announcements and some content updates (status messages) since the message being posted will be identical between sites anyway.

Pixelpipe addresses this issue by functioning as a sort of central dashboard from which a user can selectively post messages to multiple sites simultaneously. It supports a lot of popular sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Tumblr, and Flickr just to name a few.

Registration on the site is easy, and requires less details than most other sites.

The Pixelpipe registration form.

After that it's just a matter of logging in, connecting to your other accounts, and then posting. I logged in and linked my Pixelpipe account with my new Twitter and Facebook accounts, a process accomplished through the "Add Pipes" section of a user account. It's really just a matter of clicking the banner of which service you want to link your Pixelpipe account to.

The add pipes menu.

When adding "pipes", most  sites will need confirmation before establishing the link. It varies from site to site but the process should be intuitive for all Pixelpipe supported sites.

Pixelpipe confirmation page for Twitter.

Pixelpipe confirmation page for Facebook.
 After all "pipes" have been added, posting can begin immediately. On the user account, go to "Quick Post", from where you can type in your message or upload a file and select which sites you want to post this content to.

Pixelpipe's "Quick Post" menu.
In the screenshot above, I'm on the "Status Messaging" tab of the "Quick Post" menu. I then typed in "Hello World!" as my message and ticked the boxes for both Twitter and Facebook. After clicking "Update Status", Pixelpipe sends my new status message to both accounts simultaneously.
Hello Facebook World!

Hello Twitter World!
Pixelpipe isn't the simplest app out there, since a lot of configuration options are available for each supported site under the "Settings" menu, but from the example above it's clear that one need not adjust these settings for typical, everyday updates.  Overall, Pixelpipe is the perfect app for people who are losing a lot of time to managing multiple online social networking, photosharing, and/or blogging accounts.

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