Coupling several web services and social networking sites
One can use only so many websites, right? Dead wrong. You might think that it's impossible to keep up with twitter, blogger, facebook, orkut, tumblr, youtube and so many others. Most of these services have built-in functionality that enables you to cross-post. For instance, YouTube offers to post a link to Twitter automatically, if you give it permission.
As you might notice, I make a point of being available on a lot of these websites. The good side is that I can connect to friends that only use one of these services. There are many downsides to this, but the first one is keeping every one of those services up to date.
Me, I currently have the following arrangement going:
Whatever I post on Blogger gets posted to the Atom feed. Tumblr then reads that feed and posts it to both Twitter and Facebook. YouTube has a little box in the uploading screen that allows you to login to Twitter and Facebook (and Orkut too, but I don't see it working). Once you've granted permission to YouTube from within those websites, YouTube will post links there to any videos you upload (there's also the option of sharing favorites, comments so on and so forth).
This setup is interesting because what I do in this blog feels to me more like writing articles. Like I'm writing my little column on a small town newspaper. I take my time and choose interesting themes. This blog is not really meant to be entertaining, but I focus on "serious" stuff that actually gets me worked up.
Tumblr is one step down from there: it's still close to a blog, but I take it less seriously. Hence, earlier today, when I found out how to fix the 8001012e error on Live Messenger that is all over the Internet, I chose to post it on tumblr, not on Blogger. Fortunately, tumblr is strongly connected and has this lovely feature that reads a feed and cross-posts it.
On a side note, Blogger has just added this tracking feature that is just so much better than having to insert Google Analytics code every time you change the template: massive thumbs up! Maybe it's time to add more connectivity features: post a blog and have it be tweeted, facebooked and orkuted.
In YouTube, I vlog about random stuff, and although I'm not doing particularly "bad", so to speak, I know I'm just dabbling around. It'll take me some time to get things going properly. Therefore, I only have it posting to Twitter and Facebook. Along with these two, there's also a function to share your videos on orkut. In case you're wondering what orkut is, it's like facebook's poor brother. It's very popular in India in Brazil, and totally trumps facebook over there as far as social networking is concerned.
I use facebook and orkut mostly for personal purposes, meaning I don't add people I don't actually know. I'm not too picky either, but I do require some sort of human contact for that. My Twitter, on the other hand, is a public tool, as far as I'm concerned. I use it for retwitting interesting content, writing little short poems every now and then, and mostly for chatting with friends.
By the way, the idea for the last collaboration video I was in came to be in Twitter (Lost parody).
As you might notice, I make a point of being available on a lot of these websites. The good side is that I can connect to friends that only use one of these services. There are many downsides to this, but the first one is keeping every one of those services up to date.
Me, I currently have the following arrangement going:
This setup is interesting because what I do in this blog feels to me more like writing articles. Like I'm writing my little column on a small town newspaper. I take my time and choose interesting themes. This blog is not really meant to be entertaining, but I focus on "serious" stuff that actually gets me worked up.
Tumblr is one step down from there: it's still close to a blog, but I take it less seriously. Hence, earlier today, when I found out how to fix the 8001012e error on Live Messenger that is all over the Internet, I chose to post it on tumblr, not on Blogger. Fortunately, tumblr is strongly connected and has this lovely feature that reads a feed and cross-posts it.
On a side note, Blogger has just added this tracking feature that is just so much better than having to insert Google Analytics code every time you change the template: massive thumbs up! Maybe it's time to add more connectivity features: post a blog and have it be tweeted, facebooked and orkuted.
In YouTube, I vlog about random stuff, and although I'm not doing particularly "bad", so to speak, I know I'm just dabbling around. It'll take me some time to get things going properly. Therefore, I only have it posting to Twitter and Facebook. Along with these two, there's also a function to share your videos on orkut. In case you're wondering what orkut is, it's like facebook's poor brother. It's very popular in India in Brazil, and totally trumps facebook over there as far as social networking is concerned.
I use facebook and orkut mostly for personal purposes, meaning I don't add people I don't actually know. I'm not too picky either, but I do require some sort of human contact for that. My Twitter, on the other hand, is a public tool, as far as I'm concerned. I use it for retwitting interesting content, writing little short poems every now and then, and mostly for chatting with friends.
By the way, the idea for the last collaboration video I was in came to be in Twitter (Lost parody).
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