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toddcourtnage in lj_nifty

Gabcast - post audio blogs directly into LiveJournal blog

Jan 03, 2006 14:57

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mcfeisty January 3 2006, 23:44:12 UTC

very nifty indeed! either that or im a nerd...heh

firewallender January 3 2006, 23:54:20 UTC

How is this different than phone posts?

alexvdl January 4 2006, 00:03:03 UTC

You don't have to be a paid user to use it. I'm leery about giving outside services my password though.

firewallender January 4 2006, 00:36:29 UTC

Yeah... *cough* so if I'm a paid user already, it's just a security hole. Oh well.

scottobear January 4 2006, 01:10:51 UTC

or, if you make more than 15 phone posts a month!

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hexxenn January 4 2006, 05:08:33 UTC

I dunno. When you submit your blog to Technorati, it commonly asks you to verify that the blog belongs to you by entering your blog's username and password. And thousands, if not millions, of people have done just that without any known incidents.

Gabcast seems just as legit as Technorati.

matgb January 4 2006, 06:58:13 UTC

Seconded; you make a decision as to whether reputable or not.

Technorati profile is probably the most useful though.

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devineone January 4 2006, 05:52:23 UTC

Hmmm.. how safe is this site anyway? It doesn't seem like a good idea to be giving out our LJ passwords to just any random site.. even one such as this. Audblog (http://www.audblog.com) is a similiar service that lets you posts audio to your journal, yet they do not ask for your livejournal password. Any thoughts on this?

moosep January 4 2006, 14:56:28 UTC

Sure it does: "Step 1: YOUR Blog Info" - asks for login info.

Frankly, I'd be a lot _more_ concerned if services could post to my account without my username and password... LJ provides an API for this type of remote access, and this API requires that your username and password be used.

devineone January 4 2006, 15:54:00 UTC

I used Audblog like two years ago and I don't remember them asking for our passwords, I thought that when you wanted to post an audio post you could go in and view all of your saved audio files and post them manually from there, ie: copy the code and put it into your journal yourself.. therefore no password exchange was needed.

They might be doing it differently now, and if so, I apologize for assuming.

Yeh you are right, it is probably not that big a deal.

Sure they do... toddcourtnage January 4 2006, 15:26:55 UTC

I went to check out audblog.com, and according to their FAQ:
What information about my blog do I need to sign up for the audblog service?

1) Your Blog username
2) Your Blog password

Looks like they need your password to. :-)

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