As a continuation from my previous post, the Ping.fm + MyBlogLog + Y!Messenger setup lets you do some wonderful stuff.

For e.g. I can have a tumblelog where I post funny pictures and non-serious text, and a personal blog where I post my serious personal thoughts. I could setup ping.fm to post to different sites using different default method and categorize the services by their type (either for status update, micro-blog or blogging type). Posting from the ‘pingdotfm’ Y!Messenger contact will post to all services marked with the default method. For e.g. I put my default method to ‘Status Update’, like this:

 

and my Twitter and Plurk services are set as ‘use for Status Update’, like this:

messages will be posted only to these 2 services when I send a Y!M message to ‘pingdotfm’. And if I want to post something to my tumblelog, I would just need to add a ‘@m’ in front of the message, because I have categorize my service under the ‘micro-blogging’ type, like this:

Then my post to the more serious personal blog would just need to be appended with ‘@b’ in front of the message, because I have categorize the service as ‘blogging’, like this:

And here comes the neat part: depending on whether there is a Yahoo! Mobile Service provider in your area, you can SMS to Yahoo! account and get it posted to everywhere thru this method! From my area, I would SMS this message ‘to pingdotfm my testing message’ to 35525 to get it posted to Plurk and Twitter. To post to my tumblelog, I write ‘to pingdotfm @m my tumblelog message’, and same goes to my personal blog, except for this one, I write ‘to pingdotfm @b my personal blog’.

So to expand from the previous post’sm, the flow of data goes like this:

There are of course other ways like through your 3G network, but I’m a poor chap and I don’t stay out often enough to justify 3G connection, so here’s the nice things I do with the net, woot!