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PostLater Reveals metaWeblog API for ScribeFire, Ecto, and Other Desktop Blogging Clients
PostLater, the premier blog post scheduling service, added the metaWeblog remote blogging API to their service.
With the API, subscribers can now manage their scheduled posts on PostLater.com from the comfort of their favorite desktop blogging client, such as ScribeFire, Windows Live Writer, Ecto, and w.bloggar.
The API also allows custom-developed solutions to use PostLater as a scheduling engine. Developers can integrate their software by making standard metaWeblog API calls to PostLater.
PostLater enables users to schedule blog posts for platforms that don’t support future-dated entries, including Tumblr and FriendFeed.
The service holds scheduled posts in an internal queue, and creates the new post on the blogging platform at the designated time, using its scheduling engine.
This approach not only enables scheduling on platforms that don’t support future-dating, it also circumvent problems with pings to RSS services being sent long before the post is live on the blog.
