Chris Simpkins has released a beta version of Pong – http://beta.pongpong.org/.
Pong is a desktop application for automating the pinging (the blog notification type ping, not the ICMP type) of the different blog tracking services.
Looking at the screenshots below, you might be tempted to warm up your Mighty Mouse and get busy downloading. Unfortunately, this is Chris playing with your mind via the very cool Substance Look and Feel project. For now, the stylized sending of XML-RPC is only for Windows users with Java installed. An OSX version is promised in the next couple weeks.
It seems (and certainly looks) very cool, but I’m not quite sure how useful I would find this in my daily blogging. This has nothing to do with the merits of the application and everything to do with the fact I’m always travelling and using other peoples computers.
However, I think there is definitely a market for an “industrial” version of such an application for sites pumping out lots of different RSS feeds from their own content management systems or enterprise apps. Lets hope this is the first of several versions. Good work Chris!
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