I have always like to set some quirky status messages to my Yahoo! Messenger, for good fun.

And then I discovered Plurk where you basically write what people called ‘micro-blogs’, a short 1 or 2 lines messages about basically anything you want.

Then, there’s of course the omni-present twitter, where lots of people are using it to break news, like the recent Mumbai attacks tweets. Although I am not so active in tweeting, but a net junkie like me won’t want to miss out on this one.

Here comes the problem – I’m lazy. I hate duplicating efforts. I want to be able to write one message, and have it posted to my Twitter+Plurk and my Yahoo! Status all at once! There are many tools online that seems to solve part of the problem, like tarpipe and pixlepipe. After much digging, I’ve settled down with Ping.fm, with a little help from Yahoo!’s MyBloglog.

Here’s what to do:

1. 1. Create a Ping.fm account

    1.1. In the list of Social Networks, register your Twitter and Plurk account.

    1.2. In the list of Services/Tools, enable posting for Y!Messenger.

    1.3  You will be requested to add a contact called ‘pingdotfm’ to your Y!Messenger and send an authorization code.

 

2. Get the latest Y!Messenger version 9 and above.

    2.1 After logging in your Y!Messenger, go to the menu Messenger-Privacy Options,  make sure that the ‘Allow Plug-ins to set clickable status messages is enabled.

    2.2 After that, go to the menu Messenger-Manage updates I Broadcast, which will bring you to the Yahoo! Profile page. In the ‘Select who you share your Updates with’ section, check the MyBlogLog option, and choose ‘Anyone’ or ‘My Connections’ option. If you don’t see the MyBlogLog option, click on the ‘Show All Yahoo! Services’ link below this section.

3. Next, go to Yahoo! MyBlogLog website and register an account using your Yahoo! ID.

    3.1 On the left panel called ‘My Sites and Services’, click the ‘Add Service’ link

    3.2 The Services listing page will be shown. Key in your twitter ID in the twitter field. If it ask for password, just do so.

 

You’re all set now. To post a message to all 3 services, just send a message to your new Y!M contact ‘pingdotfm’ as I mentioned in the steps earlier. The message should appear shortly in both Twitter and Plurk. However, it may take a while for the message to propagate to your Y!M status. If it doesn’t, you may want to check your default settings to make sure that your Twitter/Plurk usage ties with the default method.

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must tie with this

 

 

Here’s a diagram on how I think it works. Wonderful piece of services integration.

 

Let’s hope that the two sites won’t go down anytime soon, especially with the recent news of Pownce.com shutting down and devalued Yahoo! stock. Economy is bad…