Check out this week's featured workflow by, DJ Adams (@qmacro on twitter). He really surprised us with his beer rating workflow:

DJ Adams uses this workflow to snap a picture of the beer he's drinking, publish the picture on flickr along with its rating and announce it on identi.ca. Quoting his blog post:

• post the picture on Flickr with the beer name as the title and the rating words as tags, including a statically added ‘beerrating‘;
• have a short URL constructed via TinyURL for the new Flickr picture page;
• dent the rating, with the short picture URL, on identi.ca (which in turn, re-dents to Twitter too);
• reply to the original email confirming that the beer was successfully rated.

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Are you gonna be at SXSW this year? Do you wish you could grab your cell phone, take a picture, and have it automatically published on Flickr and twitter with all the right tags? We thought about that and created a very easy way to automatically share pictures while enjoying the numerous conferences and parties happening in SXSW.

How does it work? Simply go to http://tarpipe.com/workflow/sxsw09/ and click on the "Start sharing!" link. Follow the instructions and you can start sharing by sending MMS or email messages to the generated email address. The generated workflow will perform the following actions on your behalf:

• publish your pictures on Flickr;
• add SXSW tags to your pictures;
• associate them with the SXSW event on upcoming;
• announce your pictures on twitter;
• add the #sxsw hashtag to your tweets.

You can even change the created workflow if you want to publish information to social media destinations other than the featured Flickr and twitter.

What are you waiting for? Start using this workflow, enjoy your time at SXSW and share what you're doing with your friends!

DISCLAIMER: The SXSW logo is © 1995 - 2009 SXSW, Inc. All other logos, mentions or names are considered trademarks of their respective owners. tarpipe is not affiliate with the SXSW Festival nor is this workflow generator considered an official SXSW tool.

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.

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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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