twittering?
John Folk-Williams
folkwilliams at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 21:08:40 PDT 2009
Just a thought, Jeff -
I've been struggling to keep up with the social sites as well and have
found a useful tool I'm trying now, called Friendfeed. You sign up
there and list your other sm sites. When you post to Friendfeed, it
then sends the same item to the others - not all but certainly
Facebook and Twitter and quite a few others. If you bookmark through
an account of Delicious, it will pop up on Friendfeed - same for
Stumbleupon. So it can become an aggregator as well as disseminator of
posts. If you use Google Reader it will take your shared sites and
post those as well, and that saves a lot of time in circulating useful
stories and sites you want friends to know about.
I think you also, though, have to choose which one or two SM sites to
make focus on in order to get the most out of them. I'm going to
focus on Twitter for a while to see how I can make it work. I find
that joining groups on all these sites and actively participating in
the discussions is the best way to see these things come alive with
great exchanges of information and new relationships.
John
John Folk-Williams
(916) 320-3122
folkwilliams at gmail.com
www.crosscollaborate.com
On Mar 29, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote:
> After the last WOSONOS our friend Kaliya pointed out some
> shortcomings of Facebook as an open interface, but after a few
> minutes I could not keep up with the technical aspects of that
> conversation ;-)
>
> I find myself deep into Facebook this past year, but not able/
> interested to update both my Facebook status and my Twitter status.
> Even tho (or maybe because) they can be the same thing! This also
> explains why I have not responded to some on this list who asked to
> follow my tweets. I don't keep them up, nor follow those of others.
>
> As people find creative ways to integrate Facebook and Twitter into
> OST/OSO practices, please share them here.
>
> Jeff Aitken
> late march low sun and breeze
> telegraph hill, san francisco
>
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:04:32 +1030
> From: ferrisoxide at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [OSLIST] twittering?
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>
> Hi Doug
>
> Geek-rant-mode on
>
> The notion of an "open interface" is a published, readily
> understandable (at least to a technical audience) set of protocols
> for connecting to an online service.
>
> Both Twitter and Facebook have what are called APIs (Application
> Programming Interfaces) that allow you to either extend the
> functionality or interact with the underlying service. If you have a
> look at http://twitter.com/downloads you'll see a list of
> applications that make use of the Twitter API. Some of these
> applications are written by the Twitter crowd, but some are from
> individuals who presumably just had an "itch to scratch".
>
> I've been playing with the Facebook API lately - mostly just to just
> to get my head around how the technology works - and it strikes me
> as an interesting adjunct to OST. Because I'm probably more focussed
> on technology than on OST (just the nature of my work) I wanted to
> put out there the idea that Twitter, Facebook and the other "social
> applications" aren't closed systems; that we can not only embrace
> things like Twitter and Facebook but also use their open interfaces
> to extend them and create new value.
>
> Geek-rant-mode off :)
>
> Cheers
> Tom
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:54 AM, douglas germann <76066.515 at compuserve.com
> > wrote:
> Tom--
>
> Please explain this term which is new to me: open interfaces.
>
> :- Doug.
>
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 05:41 +1030, Tom Tuddenham wrote:
> > Somewhat tangential but Facebook, Twitter, etc all have open
> > interfaces for extending their functionality.
> >
> >
> > What would make Facebook and Twitter a more worthwhile experience
> - or
> > a more enjoyable experience - for you? How can they be extended to
> > support OST? Apologies for such geeky questions - I'm just intrigued
> > by how these applications are shaping the way we all connect and
> > communicate and am trying to imagine where it's all headed.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Tom
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:07 PM, John Engle <john at johnengle.net>
> > wrote:
> > Fellow listers,
> >
> > Any of you, like me, wondering what social networking
> > applications to spend time with and which ones don't feel
> > worth it?
> >
> > I've certainly enjoyed connecting with quite a few of you on
> > Facebook, LinkedIn, and more recently, Twitter.
> >
> > I'm finding Twitter particularly fascinating because of it's
> > speed and simplicity. I'm "following" a number of you but
> > welcome the opportunity to "follow" more of you. It's the
> > ideas, musings, activities, and resources of people like YOU
> > that interests me!
> >
> > Here's my twitter page in case you want to connect with me
> > there:
> > http://twitter.com/johnengle
> >
> > And of-course, I welcome the opportunity to connect with you
> > on other social networking applications as well. Borrowing
> > from Lisa Heft, you're my tribe ; )
> >
> > Appreciatively,
> >
> > John
> >
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