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Data flying everywhere

Warning: this is going to be of absolutely no interest to anyone but me.

If I post to del.icio.us, that ends up on my blog, which ends up posting it to my LJ.

Also when I post to del.icio.us, it ends up on my other blog on Tumblr, which then gets imported into my Facebook notes.

Posting directly to Tumblr eventually gets sucked into Facebook; posting directly to my blog gets sent to my LJ.

If I make a tweet on Twitter, it also gets imported into Tumblr, and from there into Facebook.

I’ve just now changed things to that instead of posting directly to my tumblelog, my posts on del.icio.us get aggregated only to my regular blog, and then that gets fed into my tumblelog. Meaning, tumbl.ariffic.com is now the endpoint for basically everything I post (and, by extension, so are my Facebook Notes). That anything ends up on LJ at all is pretty much a triviality at this point.

tl;dr: (((del.icio.us -> blog [-> LJ]) + twitter) -> tumblr) -> facebook.

This doesn’t even take into account services that I don’t have aggregated anywhere, such as: posts on Wowhead, RSS feeds of my Google Calendars, and things of that nature. I also have a feed or two that I haven’t made public, and a couple defunct blogs whose feeds don’t update because, obviously, I’m not updating them anymore. In theory I also have a blog on IGN and a blog on Destructoid but I just don’t use those. If I did, they’d probably also end up being pulled into Tumblr, simply because Tumblr allows me to import random feeds.

Oh, and posts I do on RE. But there’s not a lot these days; it’s pretty busy here, and I never think about blogging when I get home.

April 17th, 2008 · Tags Internet, Technology, Webapps | Comments Off

Why can’t NewsGator count?

It’s crap like this that keeps me switching NewsGator back to its Classic Reader. (Hint: look at the page count on the lower-right corner of the screenshot.)

10 of 7?!

In their rush to jump on the AJAXified Web-2.0 bandwagon, NewsGator neglected to see if their product could, you know, count properly. This bug has existed for at least four months - hell, it’s existed as long as the new ‘beta’ reader has - and it’s very simple to reproduce. Here’s how you do it.

0) Turn on the ‘mark items read as I view them’ option.
1) Click on a folder.
2) Start reading by using the ‘next page’ buttons.

By about the second or third page, the page counts will be horribly out of sync.

You had a good thing going for you, NG - why’d you have to go and screw it up with this crappy ‘beta’ reader?

November 2nd, 2007 · Tags Annoyances, Internet, News, WTF?, Webapps | 1 Comment »

Pownce invites

Anyone want a Pownce invite? I got invited by mah boy Burch, and it sort of strikes me as a cross between Twitter, del.icio.us, and box.net. Oh, and maybe ICQ.

I dunno if I’ll use it that much but the client software reminds me of Twitterific, and that’s hard to come by on Windows, so it might get more use while I’m at work. This is me. You can see how much I’ve used it.

Anyhow, if you want a invite, let me know. I’ve got 6 or so.

July 23rd, 2007 · Tags Internet, Pownce, Webapps | 1 Comment »

Leafletter: what the heck is this?

What exactly (or perhaps better, who exactly) is Leafletter for?

I watched the demo and other than a silly Flash-enabled artist’s portfolio, I can’t figure out who would use this, or for what. Other than maybe MySpace kids, who absolutely love slapping Flash everywhere (consequently, my own MySpace profile is one of the dullest on the web, but also the most readable and possibly the quickest to load… and no, it doesn’t play that damn Nickelback song).

(Snazzy Flickr integration, but everything integrates with Flickr these days. I think a new corollary needs to be added to Zawinski’s Law, something along the lines of, “every web app attempts to expand until it can integrate with Flickr and/or del.icio.us.”)

January 8th, 2007 · Tags Development, Flickr, Internet, Software, WTF?, Webapps, del.icio.us | Comments Off