Tarpipe

I’ve recently started using a service called Tarpipe who provide a publishing mediation and distribution platform that simplifies regular upload activities. In other words it’s a way of interconnecting several social networking accounts. The idea is simple. You send data to Tarpipe, either via email, XMPP (Jabber) or the REST-API and Tarpipe takes that data, separates it and sends the same information off to any social networking or similar sites.

Workflows

Tarpipe uses configured workflows in a way very similar to Yahoo Pipes. You construct your workflow by joining the connectors on a canvas, connecting the output of one connector to the input of another etc. The easiest way to explain it all is to show a screen-grab of one of my workflows. This image shows my way of sending Camera Phone images to TwitPic and Flickr.

What’s happening here is that my phone emails the picture to tarpipe, it’s then sent to Flickr and Twitpic. The body of the email gets used as the Flickr title and the image is tagged with Phonepic. The Twitpic URL is sent to Twitter together with the body of the email and they both then become a Tweet. El neato.

Supported Services

Tarpipe currently supports 20+ services with more planned. Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Evernote, Plurk, Friendfeed, Delicious are amongst the ones currently available.

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