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Spring Ping Thing
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Interesting Links (21), Web (100) | April 19th, 2004
Now I know what you’re thinking. It’s Spring and time for me to stop teasing and come forward with something dramatic.
Announcing Ping-O-Matic, the automatic pinging fanatic that handles the pinging of almost a dozen different update services. Erratic server responses making pinging problematic? Bookmark the Ping-O-Matic results page and let us handle the dirty work.
With the dream team of Dougal and yours truly, you knew it was going to be cool. What you see is just the beginning. Think a unified XML-RPC interface (One Ping to rule them all, One Ping to find them…), think ping queueing, think quality of service and response graphs, think different, think global blogtimes, think update aggregation, think Ping-O-Matic.
So spread the word from here to Beijing. More than just a fling, we’re committed to being the Kings of Pings. We take this ping thing seriously, so you don’t have to.
Bing!
Vitaliy | April 19th, 2004 @ 10:30 pm
Looks awesome!
Dominik | April 20th, 2004 @ 1:33 am
Looks sweet. Is there going to be some way to automatically ping that from WP?
Eric | April 20th, 2004 @ 5:13 am
Wow, major ping-bling. Very nice.
Jonathan Stanley | April 20th, 2004 @ 5:52 am
Hmmm, think DDoS may have been more appropiate a name.
Simon Jessey | April 20th, 2004 @ 6:19 am
“Re-verify distance to target. One ping only.”
“Sir?”
“Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please.”
Who remembers the movie?
Trent | April 20th, 2004 @ 6:20 am
Hunt For Red October?
Glad I’m not the only one tired of worrying about whether I pinged all the right sites. This is definitely a neat little tool…can’t wait to see it built into Wordpress!
Dougal Campbell | April 20th, 2004 @ 7:41 am
It don’t mean a thing if you don’t send that ping! Doo-wap doo-wap doo-wap!
David House | April 20th, 2004 @ 11:47 am
Only when you integrate it into WordPress.
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RandomURL | April 20th, 2004 @ 9:14 pm
Way to go on the Ping-O-Matic…beats the heck outta the POS I’d cobbled together at home.
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Ryan Brill | April 21st, 2004 @ 4:06 pm
Any chance that we’ll eventually be able to ping it programatically? Since you said to “think a unified XML-RPC interface”, I’m hoping that a simple XML-RPC call will be able to do it.
Matt | April 21st, 2004 @ 4:10 pm
Ryan, that’s exactly what we’re planning.
Ryan Brill | April 21st, 2004 @ 4:45 pm
Awesome - can’t wait to get my blog hooked up with it.
Wayne Hurlbert | April 21st, 2004 @ 11:15 pm
I like the new version, and I use it for all of my blogs. I recommended it to my readers as well. Many bloggers are not yet aware of the concept of pinging. With a one stop ping shop, it’s much easier to spread the word.
Pat Rock | April 22nd, 2004 @ 3:05 pm
I picked this up off of Zeldman.com and I love it. I’ve already got a cron job written that runs this every night.
Thanks!
btezra | April 23rd, 2004 @ 1:19 pm
~Is the Ping-O-Matic manufactured by the same folks who brought us the “Bass-O-Matic” that fish-blending machine pitched with gusto by Dan Aykroyd on NBC’s Saturday Night Live in 1976 or was that the Popeil brothers?~