Pixelpipe allows you to distribute media such as photos, text, videos and more to over 75 social networks, blogs and other social sites. It provide numerous ways for users to share their media such as via mobile, desktop or even a Firefox addon. In my opinion, Pixelpipe is a mashup of Ping.fm, Pikchur, and TubeMogul since it lets you do everything from these sites and more from one central location.
View Recent Uploads
Here you can view all of the items that you’ve recently sent. For each item you’ll see which site it was sent to along with the date and time. For some sites, it will even provide a link to the actual item on that site. If an upload fails, you even have the option to retry or cancel all from this one location.
View and Add Pipes
From the “My Pipes” tab you can see all of the destinations (accounts) you have set up. You can then change the settings and also disable any one as default. Some accounts may have slightly different settings from others depending on what you can do with the service. Though it can be a tedious task, it’s really important that you go through and set up each account completely to avoid failed uploads.
When adding a new pipe you can choose from one of the 78 listed sites or add a blog by address. A nice thing about setting up your pipes is that you can choose which ones are posted to by default and also set a routing tag for each one. Routing tags are basically like categories that you can add to your pipes. When using that routing tag, your items will only be posted to all your accounts under that tag.
Post Media
Pixelpipe has numerous ways to upload and share your media which include: the website quick post method, email/mms, an iPhone application, Nokia share online, an Android applications, numerous Windows, Mac OS X tools and even Linux tools; you can view the full list here. When using the quick post method through the website, you can choose to upload one file or multiple files at once. You then enter a title, caption, tags, and then select which sites you’d like it to post to. You can even use the “status/microblog” quick post method to set your status to numerous sites – pretty much like Ping.fm. Lastly you can send a blog post to numerous blogs at once as well.
Customization
One of the best things I like about Pixelpipe is that you can customize the page that your uploaded media appears on. Pixelpipe allows to customize the page title and background image and colors. The only thing is that it doesn’t provide a color picker, so you will need to use your own source for that. As you can see here, I’ve changed the page background from the default white to a slate blue, added a default page title (“Uploaded by ChaCha Fance”) and changed the color of that title.
Considering everything Pixelpipe can do, it’s definitely great competition for for sites like Hellotxt, Moby Picture, Ping.fm, Pikchur, etc. Why use all these individual sites when you can just use one – Pixelpipe. Plus, I don’t know too many of these that will allow you to add emails to send media too. This is great when sharing pictures with friends or family members who may not use social media sites.
Are you currently using Pixelpipe? If so, what do you think about it? If not, do you plan on trying it?
