I am enthusiast to present you the new version of the Fred’s pinging system: King Ping. As you probably know, the new name of the pinging system I developed some weeks ago is now King Ping.
What is new in the version 2.0 of this pinging system?
- A totally new user interface. Sudar Muthu created it in the last weeks. It uses Ajax to asynchronically ping all the RPC services. The new user interface is much more professional, functional and easy to use. I can’t thank him enough for the job he have done with this user interface. I received it this morning, so I integrated it during the day, fixed some Ajax bugs with some browsers, and now it is supposed to be fully functional. Ajax uses some existing technologies, like JavaScript and CSS. So, who say JavaScript and CSS also say possibly little bugs with some browsers. If you expect some problems, please leave me an email with a screenshot of the problem and a small description. I will check it and try to resolve it. During that time, you will be able to use the old, non-Ajax, version of King Ping always available here.
- A new domain name. I also registered a new domain name: kping.com.
- 18 services to ping. I added some services to ping in the last weeks, so you now have the possibility to ping 18 RPC services.
I just remark that you added AdSense ads, why?
- King Ping needs a new web server. King Ping is currently hosted on my blog’s web server. At the beginning, it was supposed to be only available to my readers the time that Ping-O-Matic comes back. However people started to use it, so I could not really put it down. In the last weeks, King Ping pinged around 32 000 services. It is not big compared to Ping-O-Matic, however it is growing, and my blog’s web server will not be able to handle too many requests. So it is why I added these low profile ads: to try to find some founds to pay for a new web server.
What will you do with a new web server?
- Having access to more bandwidth
- Having access to a better connection
- Having the possibility to develop and give access to a RPC service. That way, people with blogging systems like Word Press would be able to ping these 18 RPC services in once, without using the user interface. It is a requested feature that I am not able to offer for now.
- Having the possibility to create other features and better pinging statistics.
How can I contribute to the King Ping project?
- By designing a logo. I am currently searching for someone that would be willing to create a logo and a header for the version 2.0 of the service. Currently I use the one created by Sudar. If I receive more than one logo/header, I will open a pool to choose which to choose.
- By designing an animated “waiting while pinging” gif. I am currently using the “waiting while pinging” animated gif of Technorati. I would like to have my own, so if someone is willing to create one, I will proceed the same way as for the logo.
- By donating. If you like the service and would like to help me to find the resources to host the service elsewhere, you can always donate to the project via PayPal by clicking here: Make a Donation.
So, you have an idea? You want to share your thoughts about it? Leave a comment on this post; it will be a pleasure to answer to you questions and to read your feedbacks to make it even more useful, easy to use and powerful.
Technorati: kingping | ping | blogtool | pingomatic | ajax | rpc | xml |
Fortrel
July 27, 2005 — 1:29 pm
Nice work guys! One suggestion: Add a quick “How To” explaining what to put in the “Blog title” and “Blog URL”. It might sounds stupid, but I was wondering if I should have been typing my Blog URL or the permalink of the article I was reporting. Just a though…
Fred
July 28, 2005 — 7:41 pm
Hello Alex,
Thank. Good idea, I will do it as soon as I can. You can put anything in the URL. The thing is that all these services (if I am not wrong) will check you HTML page to find web feeds (normally RSS and Atom) in it, and then index them.
Salutations,
Fred
Fred
July 28, 2005 — 9:24 pm
Hello,
I just received an header from Wes (Trafic Transit).
I would like to thank him for it; it fit perfectly into the design!
Thank a lot,
Salutations,
Fred
Sudar
July 29, 2005 — 1:03 am
Thanks Wes for the header logo.
Ivan A. Illyn
August 12, 2005 — 9:25 pm
I recently frequently see error answerback from Icerocket.com: “No response from remote Server!” but his web ping-form still stworking good.
Fred
August 13, 2005 — 2:52 pm
Hello Mr. Illyn,
Thank, I will check what is the error soon. I am somewhat overwelmed by works these days; however I will get some minute to check at it soon.
Thank,
Salutations,
Fred
Monte Hayward
May 28, 2006 — 11:57 am
I dug into some of the errors that I received in response to pings.
This is likely because, “Sorry, due to recent abuse you must be logged in to add blogs to the system.“
Weblogalot.Com – this site, visited manually, has a very long latency/ page load time.
I added my feed manually, then re-pinged using King Ping. Got a slightly different error message: “Remote error: No data received from server. (6).” My guess is that they are experiencing load problems.
Thanks again for providing a great tool. –Monte
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Fred
May 29, 2006 — 9:08 am
Hi Mr. Hayward!
Thanks for these information. I know that King Ping is expecting some little glitches like that, but I have a great news for you: Sudar is working on a totally new version of King Ping right now that is supposed to see the day in a month or so.
This new improved version will fix all these little things and do much more.
Thanks for this post and keep checking at kping.com for improvements.
Salutations,
Fred