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New Features: Time based grouping of media for Twitter posts, inline geo-location & previous upload stream!

Have you ever wanted to say more on Twitter then a 140 characters or a few lines of text and a photo? We’ve introduced a new feature that will automatically group media from your Twitter uploads into one post based on a specified amount of time including your geo-location. The best thing about this feature is that it happens automatically, you just specify the amount time from 2min to a full day and we’ll hold your uploads and send just one shortened pi.pe link to Twitter.

Each Pixelpipe pi.pe page can contain a combination of photos, video, audio & even files, the contents of the uploads are posted with the oldest at the top so your viewers can see your story in the order you posted. A good example of usage would be a vacation where you’re posting photos & videos with a 24 hour delay for grouping before we post a single Tweet to your followers. A more typical example would be a few posts with our default 5 min delay as you’ll find in this example from my lunch at Bento415 yesterday http://pi.pe/-wtj94p.

Here’s an example of a pi.pe page demonstrating the media uploaded, geo-location and our new previous uploads stream view (on the right). One item to note is that the previous uploads view is specific to this Pixelpipe service and will only contain media you’ve uploaded to this specific Twitter Pipe. What this means is that your family pictures uploaded to Kodak for example will not be viewable in this stream, only the pictures you’ve previously uploaded to this Twitter Pipe.

Preserve your brand or identity when posting media to twitter with Pixelpipe

We’ve recently released a number of new features for users sending media to micro-blogs and status services such as twitter. The main goal was to extend our media delivery platform for users wishing to send (linked) media and to provide a number of customization options to allow users to preserve their brand or identity.Here’s a few highlights of the release

  • Ability to customize the landing page to maintain the look of your web site or even twitter page (see example)
  • Shortened URL under the http://pi.pe domain
  • Support for linking to Photo, video, audio and files (PDF, Word, Zip…)
  • Automatic playback of photo, video, audio and link to files
  • Now supporting comments from viewers
  • These features work with the following services Twitter, britekite, friendfeed, identi.ca, Jaiku, kwippy, Ping.fm, plerb, PLURK, Rejaw & youare.com

Customization options for pi.pe landing pages

The options can be set under the ‘Settings’ menu after logging into pixelpipe.com or by clicking on the ‘Customize page appearance’ link on the footer of your pi.pe page

Settings dialog for pi.pe landing page appearance