Blog IT the new Facebook application
Now the Web have just gotten one step closer to a universal “social dashboard” capable of managing an array of blogging, messaging, networking, and media applications.
Six Apart, the software company behind blogging platforms TypePad, Movable Type, and Vox, has launched a new Facebook application called “Blog It.” Facebook members who install the application can post to multiple blogging services at one time, update their Facebook status in sync with micro-blogging services like Twitter, and have updates from the app appear in their Facebook Mini-Feeds.
Within its Facebook application, you can simultaneously update any Six Apart blogs as well as Google’s Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal and a number of others.
Once you’ve typed the world’s next great blog post, you can opt to have a notification sent to your Facebook activity feed as well as accounts on the Twitter or Pownce micro-blogging platforms. Beyond that, you can also send a single “status” message to Twitter and Pownce as well as the Facebook Status feature.
The application is powered by Six Apart’s TypePad technology, and currently accepts HTML code but is otherwise rather feature-light. Right now, Blog It is limited to Facebook’s platform. Blog It, however limited, nevertheless goes a step further by letting you update multiple blogging platforms, broadcast those updates to multiple social-messaging sites as well as share them on Facebook, and create a universal “status.” And with the way things have been going, one of these days we’ll see an application that can manage multiple accounts as well as let us keep tabs on our friends.
Plaxo, which recently made the jump from contact management to social networking, has been one of the chief evangelists behind account portability and feed aggregation occasionally bumping elbows with more conservative sites like Facebook in the process.
Facebook, meanwhile, announced Tuesday that it would be gradually allowing members to incorporate activity feeds from external social-media sites like Flickr and Yelp into their profiles.
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