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Twitpic, Twitxr, Brightkite and Ping.fm all offer the option to post pictures and share them with one social network site or another.
For some reason, Ping.fm only posts a link to my pictures, without a title or any text. “Kinda pointless and useless,” I thought, “sending just a nondescript link to twitter, jaiku, identi.ca and brightkite. Nobody is going to know what the fuck it is. A random link? A picture? Who knows? Skip it.”
So, a little research on the internet and I came up with a perfect solution:
Wordpress and a few damn useful plugins and photoblog themes:
Postie - a plugin that fixes the email to blog feature in WP 2.5 (the ability to extract and post pictures from an email is broken — and NOT fixed in the 2.6 betas)
Pingpressfm - The plugin author describes it’s usefulness perfectly:
Ping.fm is a cool service. For one, I now have accounts in more social networks (sNetworks) than I’d ever care to have had in the past. But more importantly, and for two, Ping.fm lets me update those sNetworks without having to visit each one and do it by hand. This plugin allows you to do that via your WordPress blog. It does three updates in total. One status update (facebook, myspace), one micro blog update (twitter, jaiku), and one blog update (blogger, livejournal). You can easily configure each of the three ping types in your WordPress settings.
One other benefit - the pictures are MINE. They’re on MY server and not subject to any Terms of Service of whatever site to which I would have otherwise sent them.