If possible, let the user know whether the posting was
successful in each area they attempted to post to. I
was able to post to livejournal, but not to myspace,
but I didn't know until I logged in and checked.
This is really ... really tricky. I mean, when you submit a
post when you're on one of those sites, the verification
that you get is in the form of seeing the post on the site
after you submit it. Some of the APIs provide a
success/error message, but MySpace, as an example, is not an
API at all. To check the success/failure of a post on
MySpace, I'd have to check the user's blog online to see if
the post exists. I guess I could do that, but it won't be
any time soon.
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This is really ... really tricky. I mean, when you submit a
post when you're on one of those sites, the verification
that you get is in the form of seeing the post on the site
after you submit it. Some of the APIs provide a
success/error message, but MySpace, as an example, is not an
API at all. To check the success/failure of a post on
MySpace, I'd have to check the user's blog online to see if
the post exists. I guess I could do that, but it won't be
any time soon.