I guess the fact that I think this is cool shows how much of a geek I really am…

I just found out today that Live Writer has a ”ping server” feature. (I wrote about Live Writer initially here)

This option notifies servers on web when you post an entry on your blog.

This feature can be found under Tools, Preferences, Ping Servers.

Here is the list of known servers I ping: (Got this list from here)

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://api.feedster.com/pinghttp://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

If anyone knows more, I would love to know about them. (Please post in comments)

A high-level performance comparison between Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and existing Microsoft .NET distributed communication technologies.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310550.aspx

Bottom line conclusion is that WCF is 25%-50% faster than Web services. Way cool!!!

Can’t wait to prove it!

Thanks Kirk!