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September 17, 2009
 

Personal aggregator, profile generator... whatever, I do not like you

Yes, I don't. At least, what there is now on the scene and I am aware. Maybe I am missing the killer app, is so, someone please tell me.

Google Profile is the Glory of Sadness
Arktan looks like a toy and despite the nice idea (I would have done the same) to put the nickname as a start... what the site offer more than a lifestream with some imported friend?
chip.mp is a good tool... looks more professional, you can import all contacts with oAuth from a lot of sites, and merge, and add... and in the end your home personal is a new lifestream.

So you say: WTFF? What The FriendFeed? Anyone is aware that I joined Friendfeed the 19th January 2008?

No no no. What I am looking like is something different, something fresh. Probably something that no one of those applications want even to achieve.

A personal page, NOT an aggregate of feeds
A page professional oriented, NOT a Facebook contender/clone
A page that looks interesting and attractive, NOT a toy, NOT a list of links to other pages.

I think that such a service should offer integration with as many other social network as possible and maybe show to the visitor *some* of the content that the owner produce. But NOT their whole damn lifestream. There is FriendFeed for that, or an RSS aggregator and probably tons of other way around the Net. Aggregation was THE thing of LAST year, not NEXT.

 Have I to do that by myself? I have some ideas, I need a designer. Call for help!

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September 15, 2009
 

Autopost: spread, not spam

These days you easily get overwhelmed by the number of autopost you can setup to spread what you write on the web. Autopost on Twitter, import on FriendFeed and many times the first fire to the second... the result is too many notifications about what you write. This is more spam than spread :)

I am trying today a new strategy: FriendFeed is a far superior aggregator than twitter and in general, is a more powerful and versatile service. FriendFeed now allows a very fine grained autopost configuration on Twitter (as well as on mail, instant messanger and desktop notifier).

I used to post and autopost to twitter and import Twitter from FriendFeed, I changee my mind and now I do the opposite. This is better for at least these two reasons:

  • autopost to Friendfeed will produce a rich content, with pictures or audio, if contained in original post. If you arrive on FF via Twitter, the richness is lost
  • I can configure FriendFeed to post to Twitter also other content that it automatically inport, like the bookmark I share via diigo. Now these contents will arrive also on Twitter.
So this is the first post. I have configured FriendFeed to autopost some to Twitter of the contents I already import. Let's see what happens, if I made some mistakes, the neverending loop will destroy the Internet :)

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