My "solution" to this conundrum was to methodically rid myself of just about everything for which I'd ever signed up for an account. That does not, however, help you.
Logan
· 1 year ago
Honestly, Felicia, I pretty much keep tabs on what you and my other Twitter friends are using and just follow along.
I'm almost always an early adopter, but never first generation. I'm usually one significant digit away from being considered "cutting edge."
Nathan
· 1 year ago
Keep an eye out for OpenSocial apps from Google and Yahoo and others. Hopefully they will enable you to start collecting all of your online profiles, of which I'm sure you have many more than I, in one place.
Tyler
· 1 year ago
I am pretty well addicted to good Dashboard apps, I am about to the point of learning to code one for garfield-garfield. I need to get back into using iGoogle, otherwise I'm an Adium user... the bookmark toolbar has quickly become my new favorite thing (yes, The Flog's RSS is #1 on my feed... I don't have a screencap because I'm lazy, but if you really, really have to see I'd probably take the minute to take one and post it :-p) otherwise I'm an opensource guy. I'll probably be checking into some of the stuff you posted about soonish.
Oh, and what the heck are you doing up so late posting stuff? It makes it difficult for me to keep up!
StevieB
· 1 year ago
I agree that FriendFeed needs a better UI, but what is making it a litle better for me is using a Grease Monkey script to filter the feeds, the link below will take you to the install page (link shrunk due to ginormous size). http://urlant.com/ysbsoj Also, gotta agree about Digsby, I have been using it for about 10 days and find it very useful, I can Twitter stright from my desktop and it allows me to chat in Yahoo! and Google Talk at the same time. Also very customizable. I'd like to see them add Pownce too, then I would be well away!
Anjuan
· 1 year ago
I have to admit that I also sign up for new online services in order to increase the chance that I can use "Anjuan" as my username. Better yet, I often get better URL's like anjuan.newfreeservice.com or newfreeservice.com/anjuan which both look better than my full name. Finally, I think it gives me more Google juice and expands my personal brand by having a presence on multiple sites, but I would have to update and regularly use them all for that to be truly effective.
That is why digsby sounds cool. I currently use Hellotxt.com which allows me to post once and have it update Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Pownce, Tumblr, and other social networking sites. It is much better than my previous practicee of having to visit multiple sites to make the same update.
By the way, Pidgin is a great free multi-protocol instant message tool. I use it to access my AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN accounts. It's open source and has a clean interface. They may have a version for the Mac.
Darth Angelus
· 1 year ago
I signed up for Twitter yesterday and now face the dilemma of where to put it since it doesn't seem to integrate well with LiveJournal, the Facebook plugin is broken there isn't really a got spot for it on my site. So I'm left with another isolated account.
As for combining updates, my solution is to have Livejournal, Facebook, Twitter etc notify me of anything important via email. I then use the Gmail Notifier plugin for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173) to inform me of incoming emails. Not so good for updating all my social sites at once but better than nothing :)
Ben
· 1 year ago
The only site I've ever been to early enough to be able to register "Ben" as my user name is the Felicia Day forums. :)
While I consider myself kinda tech savvy, you guys are off the charts. No wonder you are getting 300 emails at a time Felicia!
It seems to me, the number of startup sites is only going to increase exponentially and the chances of being able to "stay on top of them" are very long. I guess I'm riding the backside of the curve but I look at signing up for sites like these the same way I look at television these days. If there aren't 2 seasons available on DVD already, I'm wary about investing in a new show that will be off the air after a few episodes.
I gladly break that rule for shows that I am excited about i.e. Dollhouse. (Hey btw, have you been asked to read for that one Felicia? **Fingers crossed**)
Hi. I just wanted to say hello and congratulations. I'm from Chile and i'm a huge fan of the Guild.
It's really amazing what internet can do. Can u believe there are fans all over the world?
I'll keep on reading this..and comment about it :P and of course watching one of my favourites Show
S o M a
· 1 year ago
hello! Paula;
a former coworker of mine is chilean-german. everyone called him "Chili".. although isnt it pronounced with a soft 'a' and not a long 'e' sound ? [chi-layh vs chil-ee]
Paula
· 1 year ago
Hi! In spanish Chile is pronounced like if you have de "e" between two consonants like the "e" on "red" or "bed": Chil-e.
That is how the "e" sounds for us. But the soft "a" works as well.
Greetings from the end of the world ^^
Jemimus
· 1 year ago
I tried to build my own solution, similair to Friendfeed using Yahoo Pipes. Its a simple pipe that combines ALL of the stuff (rss-based) I do online (like Twitter, Youtube, Sharepoint shared stuff, etc ), and tags it, and serves it up as a combined RSS feed via Feedburner: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=rsNN... http://feeds.feedburner.com/jemimus
That in turn, turns up on my Wordpress blog, via a plugin that can post RSS feed items as blog entries: www.jemimus.net
I too have this obsession of registering for just about every hot 2.0 startup with my Username "Jemimus" .. my current obsession is Seesmic, which is a very cool instant-video message site.. its kinda like Twitter meets Youtube. www.seesmic.com
curtinparloe
· 1 year ago
It's bad enough having to keep tabs on Myspace and Facebook without having other things too. Already I've lost track of Hi5 and all the others.
Of course, if I didn't find these distractions I'd have to get down to the scriptwriting that's been bugging me all week...
Felicia
· 1 year ago
Jemimus, damned dude, you definitely perfected the centralized "Jemimus" identity on your blog, I love it! I'd like to do something similar here. Why should I or anyone interested in my online stuff, have to go to another site? I want it all on this page!
worldofhiglet
· 1 year ago
Hi Felicia,
I've just started using Google Alerts after your recent post and now you've given me more things to worry I'm not doing?! Give a born-again geek a chance! That's the trouble/great thing about your blog - it makes me want to try more stuff out when I' already too busy...but I still come back for more.
Georgi
· 1 year ago
Hey Felicia. I just wanted to say thanks so much for posting a comment on my blog. It meant a lot to me that you made the effort and it was such a nice suprise! :) Grats for all the success The Guild has had and good luck with your acting career in the future. -Georgi (www.nerdgerl.com or www.ieatgeeks.com)
Jemimus
· 1 year ago
Hey, you might find this article interesting. It deals with EXACTLY this problem we have of all this de-centralized data all over the place, around our identity.
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I'm almost always an early adopter, but never first generation. I'm usually one significant digit away from being considered "cutting edge."
I need to get back into using iGoogle, otherwise I'm an Adium user... the bookmark toolbar has quickly become my new favorite thing (yes, The Flog's RSS is #1 on my feed... I don't have a screencap because I'm lazy, but if you really, really have to see I'd probably take the minute to take one and post it :-p) otherwise I'm an opensource guy.
I'll probably be checking into some of the stuff you posted about soonish.
Oh, and what the heck are you doing up so late posting stuff? It makes it difficult for me to keep up!
http://urlant.com/ysbsoj
Also, gotta agree about Digsby, I have been using it for about 10 days and find it very useful, I can Twitter stright from my desktop and it allows me to chat in Yahoo! and Google Talk at the same time. Also very customizable. I'd like to see them add Pownce too, then I would be well away!
That is why digsby sounds cool. I currently use Hellotxt.com which allows me to post once and have it update Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Pownce, Tumblr, and other social networking sites. It is much better than my previous practicee of having to visit multiple sites to make the same update.
By the way, Pidgin is a great free multi-protocol instant message tool. I use it to access my AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN accounts. It's open source and has a clean interface. They may have a version for the Mac.
As for combining updates, my solution is to have Livejournal, Facebook, Twitter etc notify me of anything important via email. I then use the Gmail Notifier plugin for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173) to inform me of incoming emails. Not so good for updating all my social sites at once but better than nothing :)
While I consider myself kinda tech savvy, you guys are off the charts. No wonder you are getting 300 emails at a time Felicia!
It seems to me, the number of startup sites is only going to increase exponentially and the chances of being able to "stay on top of them" are very long. I guess I'm riding the backside of the curve but I look at signing up for sites like these the same way I look at television these days. If there aren't 2 seasons available on DVD already, I'm wary about investing in a new show that will be off the air after a few episodes.
I gladly break that rule for shows that I am excited about i.e. Dollhouse. (Hey btw, have you been asked to read for that one Felicia? **Fingers crossed**)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwAjur3_08Y&...
I'm from Chile and i'm a huge fan of the Guild.
It's really amazing what internet can do. Can u believe there are fans all over the world?
I'll keep on reading this..and comment about it :P
and of course watching one of my favourites Show
a former coworker of mine is chilean-german. everyone called
him "Chili".. although isnt it pronounced with a soft 'a' and not
a long 'e' sound ? [chi-layh vs chil-ee]
In spanish Chile is pronounced like if you have de "e" between two consonants like the "e" on "red" or "bed": Chil-e.
That is how the "e" sounds for us. But the soft "a" works as well.
Greetings from the end of the world ^^
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=rsNN...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/jemimus
That in turn, turns up on my Wordpress blog, via a plugin that can post RSS feed items as blog entries: www.jemimus.net
I too have this obsession of registering for just about every hot 2.0 startup with my Username "Jemimus" ..
my current obsession is Seesmic, which is a very cool instant-video message site.. its kinda like Twitter meets Youtube.
www.seesmic.com
Of course, if I didn't find these distractions I'd have to get down to the scriptwriting that's been bugging me all week...
I've just started using Google Alerts after your recent post and now you've given me more things to worry I'm not doing?! Give a born-again geek a chance! That's the trouble/great thing about your blog - it makes me want to try more stuff out when I' already too busy...but I still come back for more.
-Georgi (www.nerdgerl.com or www.ieatgeeks.com)
http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/03/my-so...
-mike
"The Guild" fan and Digsby dev =)