Take a look at this week's featured workflow, by Luís Miguel Braga. To be honest, this is the most comprehensive workflow we've seen so far (click on the image to see a larger version):

Luís is using this workflow to share images to almost everwhere:

I use this workflow to share images (via email or MMS) to the various social networks that I use regularly and my tumble log.

The subject holds a quick/smaller comment about the image.

The body contains a longer text about or related to the image.
The imageAttachment gets uploads to various photo hosting services, just for redundancy.
The two TextFormaters join the picture url with the text. One for the small comment, the other for whole tumble log post.


This way the image is posted to 23hq, flickr, TwitPic, FriendFeed,
Facebook. Its address and the smaller comment get posted to Twitter,
Identica, Plurk, Jaiku. The longer post goes into Rejaw, Tumblr,
FriendFeed and Facebook.

It's kind of complex, but it works great and gives me a big help in
getting in touch with all my contacts spread over so many social
networks.

What about you? How are you using tarpipe? Would you like to be featured as tarpipe of the week? Just send a direct message to @tarpipe!

We're thrilled to be one of the 5 finalists on this year's SXSW Web Awards Technical Achievement category. This category is, according to SXSW's own description, all about "sites that are re-inventing and re-defining the technical parameters of our online experience" — and that's exactly what we're doing.

The SXSW Web Awards are divided into 18 categories, covering all possible areas of Web creation. While the winners of each of these categories are chosen by a jury, there's also the People's Choice Award where you can participate by voting on your favorite finalist.

So, thank you all for making tarpipe evolve from a proof-of-concept into a valuable application. If you're going to SXSW this year let us know your whereabouts and we'll be more than happy to meet you and listen to your ideas.

Another week starts and we show you another way to use tarpipe. This time, we listened to Yann Lebout and here's how he's automating his status updates:

Instead of sending an email message (as shown last week) Yann chose to use a bookmarklet and the RestDecoder:

You always find interesting stuff on the web you want to share quickly with everyone. With this workflow and the tarpipe bookmarklet from Guillaume Riflet, I found a really convenient way to do it easily with two clicks.

When I'm on a web page I want to share, I just click on the bookmark, type the message to describe the URL and then pipe it and it soon appears on my Facebook status, my Twitter, Plurk and Plaxo accounts. And with a few add-ons, you could also save the URL on Delicious.

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The previous weeks we showed you two ways of publishing pictures from your cell-phone and announcing them on a number of different social media destinations. This week we have workflow that will update your status all over. Take a look at how Christian Happel is using tarpipe:

Christian is using this workflow just by sending an email each time he wants to update his status:

With this pipe you can update all the status on different websites at once. You don't need to log on to every page to keep all your friends update who are following you on different networks.

You don't even need any Facebook app any more to integrate other activities: just update Facebook itself directly with the same text.

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Here's another example of how you can use tarpipe to automate your publishing to multiple destinations. This time Felipe Manhães shared one of the workflows he's using:

Felipe is using this workflow to send pictures by MMS from his cell phone. Here's how he's using it, from his own words:

The MMS is divided in 3 parts: sender, subject and body.

The sender (the number of my phone) is used to tag the picture attached in the MMS. The picture goes to Flickr and Photobucket and the Photobucket URL is sent to TinyURL.

The subject is used to title the pictures on both sites. The body contains the message (up to 110 characters - after the TinyURL address will be added).

The message and the Photobucket URL of the picture are then sent to Twitter as a new post.

So I use a simple MMS (almost all phone devices have) to create a new post at Twitter with a link to a picture.

Do you think this is useful? Create a similar workflow and start publishing directly from your cell phone in no time.

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