Simplify Online Sharing with Tarpipe

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Kyle Judkins in Internet Tools

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tarpipe logoDo you find yourself spending lots of time uploading your updates and pictures to numerous places?  Wouldn’t it be nice to easily post to multiple places in a custom fashion?  Tarpipe provides you with a solution that allows you to post messages and media content to several places at once.  This might seem like a Ping.fm or Hello.txt, but it offers much more customizations.

What’s So Different?

Tarpipe approaches updating from a different perspective.  It doesn’t limit itself to just text or link updates.  Tarpipe lets you customize exactly how you want to update your services by creating worksflows.  The following workflow example uploads a picture to my Flickr account and posts a message to Twitter(with a shortened URL) that links back to that picture.

tarpipe example

This may look complicated, but it is extremely intuitive and easy to use.  You make workflows by connecting your favorite social networks to each other.  Once you save your work flow, you’ll be given an email to send your information and updates to.  The email format is great, because you can have the subject line be the title of the picture and the body be the picture description.  The text could also be connected to Twitter in order to post a message to Twitter that isn’t just a link.

tarpipe workflow

Tarpipe also gives you an activity flow that allows you to see all of your completed and failed workflows.  This will help you keep track of what your workflow is actually doing.  It is much easier to learn and create more complex workflows by looking at your activity flow.  Here was mine after my first test post.

tarpipe activity

As you can see, I posted a picture to Flickr and a message to Twitter.  I used the subject line in my email to be the title of the picture and the message in Twitter.  I also made sure to shorten the URL using bit.ly, so I wouldn’t go over the text limit in Twitter.

Supported Services

The service and idea may be great, but it will only be as great as the services it supports.  Well, we are in luck, because Tarpipe supports a great number of services already and are constantly adding more.  Supported services include Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Facebook, Evernote, FriendFeed and many more.

Conclusion

Tarpipe has a lot of potential and uses.  The most basic user can create some great workflows, but an advanced user could really use the service to do some amazing things.  I’m not sure this will replace the normal way you update your sites or services like Ping.fm, but it does have it’s niche in those types of services.  I could see this being a great tool for people that post lots of information on their mobile phone.  What do you think the best use of Tarpipe is?

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2 Responses to “Simplify Online Sharing with Tarpipe”

  1. Bruno Pedro

    28. Jan, 2009

    Great article Kyle,

    I wonder if you’ve seen or used our share form which lets you share content without having previously created a workflow.

    Here’s an explanation of how it works: http://blog.tarpipe.com/2008/11/10/sharing-from-within-tarpipe/

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  2. Nicholas | Pixobyte.com

    31. Jan, 2009

    very excellent post.. looking forward more such great posts from you! :-)

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