Ian Forrester wrote: > Yeah this is the thing I'm really worried about happening. Ping.fm > currently is my preferred way to do microblogging. Without it, geez > it would be bad news. Surprised no ones created a ping.fm type thing > for the desktop. > > Interesting piece about ping.fm - > http://mashable.com/2008/09/02/pingfm-solving-the-problem-or-exacerbating-it/
The thing that bothers me about ping.fm (and the reason that I won't use it) is that it encourages you to give your username and password for all of the supported services to a third party. I'll only start using it once the services that I'm interested in are all suing OAuth. Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
