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Microblogging Software

I’m using two apps on my computer to follow my microblogging: Gwibber and MahTweets.  Both have the advantage that they don’t use Adobe AIR.

Gwibber

Anyone who reads this blog, knows I’m a huge fan of this software.  I run it every day that I’m in Ubuntu (which is every day…) and I love the great integration that it has with Gnome.  I love the new look that it has (great job @segphault!).

As you can see, the sidebar as been shrunk down to icons.  I quite like the the huge character count in the lower right corner.  The app feels very polished.

The only issue I have with it is that it needs to have “gwibber-service &” run in a terminal before it will start, but this will be taken care of by the full release (I’m using the Daily PPA).  Also, we don’t have status.net support yet, but I’m sure it will be added back in later on in the development.

MahTweets

MahTweets is a status.net/twitter/facebook app that runs natively on Windows.  I really like this program, especially since it has all of the features that I need.

It runs natively on Windows; ie, I don’t need something like Adobe AIR between the program and my OS.  While this allows many programs to be cross-platform, I’d rather just have a program that’s native.

MahTweets has great integration with Windows 7 in how it works with Aero.

This app has multiple columns, similar to Seesmic Desktop.  It doesn’t run on AIR, and it includes more microblogging sites than Seesmic does, so I’m using it instead of Seesmic.  I don’t want to have to have more than one program to follow my various sites; microblogging is supposed to be a simple way of updating people with what you’re doing.

I’m looking forward to whatever improvements come with MahTweets.  It’s a robust app and I think good things can come of it.

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Gwibber 2.0

Gwibber has increased a release number (from the 1.x branch to the 2.x branch) and I must say… it’s awesome.

Screenshot of the new UI:

There are some quirks, as with all pre-release software, and I’m running into them as I write this.

On first try, I’m noticing these things:

  • Notify-osd doesn’t seem to work properly, even if you have “show bubbles” checked on the preferences menu.
  • Append colon doesn’t seem to be working properly, even though I have it checked in the preferences.
  • Upon restart, gwibber doesn’t keep the same window dimensions as I had it upon exit.  This is a minor issue, though it would be nice to have working.
  • Related to the above, gwibber doesn’t keep the same position upon restart.  Again, this is a minor issue.
  • No Jaiku.  This is minor, but if you use Jaiku (like me), it gives you another reason to drop the service.  I’m not getting as much out of it as I was before.  (Sorry Bugabundo!)

Now that I’m done airing the issues with it, here’s the good stuff:

  • New UI.  Gwibber has added a sidebar that shows your individual accounts (identi.ca, twitter, facebook, etc).  You can click on the “replies” heading and see all of the replies to your twitter account (for instance).  This is handy if you’re trying to track something down in a specific account.  There’s also a drop-down menu, but I prefer the sidebar.
  • Facebook has the options to “like” and reply to posts.  In the old version, you had to go to Facebook and do your posting and whatnot to individual wall posts.
  • Search box at the top of the window.  This is awesome, as I can search on a term and it finds posts related to that term, and returns them by account.  Awesome.
  • A refresh button in the toolbar.  This is great, since I can refresh and see what everyone is saying right now.
  • Easy access to Favorites on both twitter and identi.ca.  Now, if you’ve faved a certain post, you can see it easily.
  • In the same vein, there’s a “Public” filter for both twitter and identi.ca.  You can easily see what people are talking about outside your set of friends.

Do remember that this is from the daily PPA, so it MAY BREAK.  If you need a stable version, use the 1.x branch that’s included in Ubuntu or whatever distro you’re running.

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Facebook + Friendfeed = Facefeed?

Ok.

Facebook has bought Friendfeed.

I’ve, subsequently, removed all of my info on Friendfeed.

I like Facebook.  It’s a good platform for keeping in touch with friends, playing silly little games, and all that stuff… BUT, it has been proven several times that Facebook doesn’t care about your privacy.  Examples include them changing their TOS (to change rights to photos and such), and also the advertisement photo use.  (NOTE: I have no problem with Facebook making money, but could they find a better way, like through “better” ads?  But I digress…)

Now they have Friendfeed.  I still don’t know what to make of it, but I did change my “lifestream” to Tumblr.  The only issue with Tumblr is that you can only import 5 RSS feeds or other accounts.  So, using RSS and twitterfeed, I’ve connected up my wakoopa and Mixx accounts to twitter and identi.ca.  The only overlap I have is the blog, which is fed into Tumblr and to twitter/identi.ca, so my followers will get two notices of it updating.  There’s really nothing I can do about it, as I want both there, and I don’t feel people should have to click twice to get the the real article.

The only thing I feed to Facebook is my blog.  I haven’t had twitter/identi.ca hooked up to Facebook for awhile now (too many non-important messages and @’s that didn’t make sense to people there, unless they followed me on twitter/identi.ca).

I’ll keep following the buzz surrounding this, but I wanted to get something out there, as I loved Friendfeed and the ease of getting someone’s whole online life (or at least how much they’re sharing) in one place.

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#Followfriday Blog

I’m taking an idea I heard over on Jesse Stay’s blog here.  I’m going to (at least try) to post a blog about people I think you should follow on all my services: twitter, plurk, identi.ca and friendfeed.

Ok, let’s get started.

Identi.ca

@bugabundo is an Ubuntu alpha tester.  He is interesting if you’re into what’s going on in Ubuntu development.  Some of his posts are in Portugese, but that doesn’t stop me from following him.  I don’t understand it (ofc) but he’s at least bi-lingual with English.

Twitter

@afl_com_au is the official AFL (Australian Football League) twitter channel.  If you like Aussie Rules Football, I recommend following them to get the most up-to-date information about players and the Footie scene.  I just started watching AFL games, so this kind of keeps me in the loop.

Plurk

Plurk is the “social network on a line”.  I follow many of the same people on Plurk as I do on identi.ca and twitter.  One of these people is @speedboy.  He talks about tech (I have a theme here…), sport, his girlfriend… normal stuff.  He’s interesting.  He’s also from Belgium.  He gives an interesting perspective with different things.

Friendfeed

Gary Vaynerchuk is someone I think I’ve recommended before, but for twitter.  His friendfeed encompasses all his online stuff… Youtube, blog, etc.  He’s the WineLibrary.tv guru, and he is totally down-to-earth.  He’s also got a lot of energy.  I always feel energized after watching one of his youtube videos!

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There you have it.  My #followfriday and reasons behind it!  Enjoy.

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Social Media

My social media consumption is getting out of hand.

I have identi.ca, friendfeed, twitter and RSS feeds that I monitor throughout the day and respond to when I find something interesting.  Also, I monitor my main gmail account, as well as my job search gmail account, and a yahoo account that’s for throw-away sign-ups.

I’ve said before that I use gwibber to monitor my twitter, friendfeed and identi.ca streams; this was fine when I was just following twitter and identi.ca.  The addition of friendfeed (while welcome, don’t get me wrong) pushes stuff that I might want to see in my other sites down in the window. (FYI: I’m using the alpha build; the daily PPA, not recommended if you need a stable install.  To install in Ubuntu, follow the instructions here.)

I guess the issue I have is that the updates come in fast and furious.  It doesn’t help that I follow Robert Scoble and his brother Alex, and both are very active on friendfeed.  I tried to disconnect from them, but I was actually getting some value-added posts from their feeds.  So, I reconnect to both of them, and get back what I was missing when I disconnected from them.  What I’d like, I guess, is to be able to have different tabs of my different lists for friendfeed.  I doubt this is possible right now, but it’s something handy to have for the future.

On that note, I can hardly wait til Seesmic Desktop rolls out identi.ca and friendfeed support.  This way, I’ll be able to further drill down my consumption to organized lists.

I heard from @segphault that the list feature is on the roadmap for Gwibber 3.0.  Since we’re just hitting the 1.0 release (I think it’s slated for Karmic, forgive me if I’m wrong) I have awhile to wait.

Also, I like to follow a lot of people to get a wide variety of viewpoints.  This adds to the potiential “noise” I have to deal with.  I’ve already removed a lot of the rooms I used to follow (over half), and I did the same with identi.ca.  Like, I’m not using choqoK any more, nor KDE, nor Kubuntu, so I left those rooms.  FSF and Gnu are usually both tagged in posts related to them, so I left FSF. 

I’m just trying to consolidate things so it’s easier to manage.  I did a clean-out of my RSS feeds, removing most of my local RSS feeds, as well as the national news feeds.  I’ve moved all that stuff over to Google News, an awesome online newspaper.  It just aggregates your news (much like an RSS reader) but in a simple-to-scan format, much like a newspaper.  The links are all to the original articles, so just open them up in another tab to read the article.  Easy.

An easy way to cut down on the noise is to shut off the bubble popups for gwibber.  I did that and my desktop is much, much quieter.  I can concentrate on what I’m doing (blogging, reading, etc).

All this monitoring, replying and social following can be a full-time job.  I’m thinking about only letting myself check the sites or my beloved gwibber every hour or so.  Has anyone else tried this?  I know only checking my RSS feeds every so often really cuts down on the “ooooh, I have an unread feed” feeling when I’m online.  Specto helps; I have it set to inform me of new feeds every hour, but I’m thinking of changing it to every 2 hours.

I guess it’s just a case of information overload, and I need to cut down for my sanity.

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Seesmic Desktop

Seesmic Desktop is an awesome desktop twitter and facebook app that lets you mange your “friends” (connections) using lists.  It’s easy to get on all platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac); just make sure you have Adobe Air installed first and go to the website.  Click on “install”, wait, click some “ok”s, and you’re all set.

But now you ask, “What on earth do I do with this?”.  At first, it seems a little redundant (especially if you have Twhirl running).  Well, the list function is a very powerful feature; you can narrow down your twitter feed so you can get more use out of it.  For instance, say you follow @mashable, @cnn, @techcrunch, @nprnews, @lifehacker, and @consumerist; you can easily put those tweeters into a “news” list.  Say you follow your mom, your brother and other members of your family; easily put them into a list called “family”.  See where I’m going with this?

Then, if you want to see only your news sources, click on the “news” list.  Same with all your other lists.  Simple, right?

Don’t forget that you can detatch the different lists and have them all seperate from your home feed.

The other great thing about this is you can group your facebook friends into the same lists.  Awesome!  Now, you can seperate your friends, family, fraternity/sorority brothers/sisters, college buddies, etc all into their seperate lists.

@loic and the team have also implemented direct spam reporting into Seesmic Desktop.  This is an incredible addition to the app… now you don’t need to go to the browser to report spam and spammers.

The SD team is working hard on new features: friendfeed and identi.ca are next (I think).  I’m really waiting on those two additions, and then I can dump Twhirl for good (right now, I’m using it for identi.ca).

I have SD in my Ubuntu install (both of them) but I’m using Gwibber right now.  That’s another blog post.  :)

But, if you’re looking for a twitter/facebook app, GO GET SD!  It’s awesome (especially on Windows and Mac).  Don’t forget that it’s still in the development stages, so there might be some bugs and crashes, but that’s a chance to take with an awesome app.  I wouldn’t recommend it for Linux users, since they have the totally awesome Gwibber and choqoK.  It can be run in Linux, but you will have to use the rather buggy Adobe AIR base for it (rather, it’s buggy in Linux, not necessarily buggy in general).

Anyway, give it a shot, see if it works for you.  It’s great for me on Windows.

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New Friendfeed Beta

There’s been a lot of buzz about the new Friendfeed beta about the web, and I’d like to contribute my little bit about it.

Firstly, it’s in “real-time”.  You can see things that come in as they come in as opposed to whenever you go to Friendfeed.  This is a double-edged sword, as I noticed right away.  I was trying to watch a Youtube video somebody had shared, and I noticed it moving down the page as people posted more new content on top of it.  Slightly frustrating, but I managed to open that FF comment in another tab and just let the firehose stream on.  The disadvantage to “letting the firehose stream on” is that you can miss things, as I did.  The advantage to the firehose is that you can see who’s commenting and liking you “stuff” whether it’s an article you dugg, a Youtube video you created and shared, a Tumblr post, or a blog post.  It’s a great way to get quick feedback on a post (assuming people read it right away).

Friendfeed’s also redesigned their page to focus on the content, not where it’s coming from.  This is an important development; it allows you to see new content without necessarily caring where it comes from.  Personally, I liked having the different icons show up so I could follow people with interesting content from that service (digg, etc). 

Secondly, they’ve set groups as feeds you can follow, as opposed to a “group” that you join.  Basically, they setup a feed of the group posts and it feeds all into that group.

Thirdly, there’s a “pause” button.  This comes in handy when you’re trying to read something on your page and it gets too fast for you to follow.  I hope they incorporate a key you can use to stop the firehose.

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I’ve noticed people saying that Friendfeed is “becoming like Twitter”.  I’d say no, they aren’t.  Friendfeed is better than Twitter.  With this new “real-time” implementation, I think Twitter has to watch their back.  I like the fact that you can share anything manually and automatically (through RSS feeds) to the service.

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I think the new Friendfeed is all about simplicity.  It has virtually no down-time (like Twitter seems to have) and is better organised.  Also, it seems people aren’t using it to spam as much as Twitter is, but that’s a blog post for another time…

Microblogging AIR Apps

I’ve been microblogging since last year around this time, and I’ve been looking for the perfect AIR app to follow my friends’ tweets ever since (on Windows).  I have found the perfect Linux app in Gwibber.

Anyway I’ve tried the following:

Twhirl is nice; it allows you to have twitter, identi.ca and Friendfeed all up and running, but it requires you to run each as a seperate window.  This is not cool (for me, anyway) because I use all three.  Twhirl would be more usable for me if it was one window with tabs or if it aggregated all of the feeds together in one window, ala Gwibber.

Twibble is quite nice. I like it; it has a simple interface.  Unfortunately, there are no pop-ups notifying me of replies to my tweets/dents.  However, it does support identi.ca, which is very nice.

AlertThingy is awesome, but there’s no support for Friendfeed or identi.ca.  They do have a Friendfeed-only app, but not having support for identi.ca is a deal-breaker for me.

Spaz is great, but it only allows you to use one account at a time.  In other words, I can have either my identi.ca OR my twitter account active.  It has popups for replies and it’s lightweight (ie, it doesn’t hog a tonnage of my resources).

Snitter is full-featured.  No identi.ca support either.  It has a very nice interface and is clean and easy-to-use.

Posty is about as full-featured as you can get.  It has twitter, identi.ca, friendfeed, Jaiku and Tumblr.  It’s got a nice tabbed interface and is lightweight.  No popups and no sound, however.

IdentiTwitch is clean, if a hair confusing to sign into both twitter and identi.ca at the same time, but it can be done.  Once you figure that out, it’s got a great, simple interface.  No pop-ups and no sound, but that’s not a problem for me.

Feedalizr is probably one of my favorite of the bunch.  I was using it until I had an issue with the transparency.  I’m still having the issue, but I’m not in Windows right now to diagnose it.  It’s got a tabbed interface and supports facebook, friendfeed, twitter and digg.  It’s the closest thing I’ve found to Gwibber on Windows… unfortunately there is no identi.ca support.  I need identi.ca support!

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Right now on the windows box, I’m using Twhirl.  I keep trying to reinstall Feedalizr, but, even with the update I was emailed, it’s not working.  Oh well.  I’ll just wait for the next update and see if it works.  I’m sure it will.

All of these have their own quirks.  Please try them all out and see what works for you.

Microblogging, Miniblogging, Blogging, and Lifesteaming

I do all of these internet-related activities.  For the sake of explanation (to my visitors who may not have been part of the internet for a long time) I offer some explanation.  I’ve had many people ask me about the difference between all of these, and what the point of it all is.

I will go in order of size.

Microblogging

Microblogging is a way to get a quick message out to many followers.  It’s usually limited to 140 characters and can be created with SMS on a mobile phone.  It focuses on speed and mobility to get short, “status-style” messages out to your friends (if they follow you on that service).

There are several sites that offer microblogging, the most popular being twitter.  There are other sites, however: identi.ca, jaiku, plurk, and yammer.  Each site offers different advantages.  Twitter has the largest userbase by far; identica is open-source and federated, jaiku is owned by google, has a threading feature and groups, and was started in Finland, plurk offers your updates in a time line style that allows for easy following of threads, and yammer is closed off for companies.  Which one you use will depend on what you need to do with it.

You can upate these services many ways.  I’ve already mentioned SMS, but you can update with your IM client (add a “bot” that allows you to get and receive messages in your chat client), the web (go to the site directly), a third-party program (posty, twhirl, gwibber, or many of the other updaters; many are available on the Adobe AIR platform and many are cross-platform), or something like ping.fm.  Ping allows you to update all of your services at once so you don’t have to go to each site and update individually.  It doesn’t allow for replies, however, so you still need to go to the site or run a client to carry on a conversation.

This is also a good way to aggregate your digg, delicious, and full blog posts together so your followers don’t need multiple RSS feeds from you to see what you’re up to.

Miniblogging

Miniblogging is mostly tumblr, but facebook can be lumped under the “miniblogging” umbrella.

Basically, miniblogging is a longer post than a tweet/dent, but shorter than a “full” blog post; most are about a paragraph or so that focus on only one topic and briefly.  It’s usually a multi-media affair (links to videos on youtube, pictures and the like).  The focus is on short posts with little-to-no commentary.

Tumblr is a good way to aggregate your “full” blog as well.  Feed the links to the longer posts into the shorter format, and people will click through to find out what you have to say.

This format is good for an artist, someone who does webcomics, a musician, or a photographer to get their work out to the world.

This format is also great for quotes and snippets of information; much like a virtual scrapbook.

Blogging

Blogging is what you’re reading right now; longer, more thought out posts with multiple paragraphs, sections and ideas.  There is also more explanation of the topic at hand, many times with references of research.

Many times there are fewer links for links sake (I try to keep the links down in my posts… this one is an exception…).

Blogging is like an online diary or journal that allows the writer to express their ideas in a long-ish format.

Many blogs have a certain topic (tech, food, crafts, knitting, life-hacking, work, writing, etc) that they adhere too.  My blog is a mish-mash of stuff I like and do, as you can very well see!

Lifestreaming

This brings everything all together.  You can use friendfeed to aggregate all of this information together into one spot (online radio like last.fm, digg, delicious, tumblr, blog posts, twitter/identica/plurk/yammer/linkedin/etc.  Basically, you can use it as a way to show what you do online.  People can subscribe to your feed and see what music you like, what youtube videos you like, etc.

It’s a simple way to see what somebody is like… What they like, what they dislike, what they say and how they act online.

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Hope this took care of any questions you might have had about the differences between these types of web content.

Go to my “About Me” link to the right and see what all I’ve been up to!

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Twitter Spam

I hate spam. More-so, Twitter spam.

Basically, twitter spam when people follow you with a useless link that goes to a marketing website, dating site, or worse, porn.

I got this from twitter in my email:

Twitter is working on new approaches to handling spam. If you’re writing in because your account was suspended, please send a new request to this address:

suspended@twitter.com

If you’re reporting spam, thanks! In the future, please report spam directly from your Twitter account by following our Spam profile:

http://twitter.com/spam

and sending us a direct message with the user name of the spammer, and we’ll take care of it. No need to send one per message– you can send as many spam user names as will fit in one direct message. Once you follow @spam, you can send a direct message right from your home page in the “What are you doing” box, like this:

d spam @carsnow @junkride @pleatherdice are spam accounts

Thanks! Twitter Support Team

If anyone is on twitter and they’re getting spam, try this method.

Twitter has been trying very hard to curb the spam problem. The users are vocal about having their friend-space violated by people who have no reason to follow other than to get a boatload of followers and then spew their sponsored links to as many people as they can.

Update.

I haven’t been around for awhile, and for that I apologize.  It’s been a long week, what with work, getting my car, dealing with some stress along the way and all that good stuff.

New car:

I bought a 2006 Mazda3 i Sedan.  I’m very pleased with it.  It’s black, with a tan/black interior.  The column is a rake and tele, the engine is a 4-cylinder (145-ish hp), and the seats adjust vertically (a very nice feature).  It has a 6-CD changer that’s in the dash (no messing with stuff in the trunk).  Speaking of the trunk, it has enclosed hinges so you can fill it right up to the top and not worry about your stuff getting caught on the hinges.  The radio is good.  It’s easy to set your stations.  The car has cruise (very good idea), radio controls on the wheel (not necessary, but a nice touch) and a nice feel to the wheel.

The steering is responsive, as is the acceleration and braking.  I’m happy with the ride and handling.  There is very little shake on the road when you’re driving.  The tires grip well and I feel very secure in the driver’s seat.

Overall, I’m very pleased with this car.  I’d buy another Mazda for the styling, safety and value.

Picture:

My car is black, not this dark grey.  Anyhow, it’s a very well designed, tight car.

Work:

Work’s been insane.  I’ve been barely able to keep up with some of the stuff that’s going on.  Things are changing every day with this program.  *sigh*

Personal:

Well, been keeping busy with all of the things that keep me moving.  I’m addicted to plurk and I’ve met some cool people on there.  It’s like twitter or identi.ca, but different.  Anyway, I’m gamerchick02 on all of those services.  Feel free to check out my profiles.

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Off for some TV and whatnot.  I hope to have more updates soon.  I just haven’t had a lot of time to post stuff here.

New Post

I haven’t said much of substance lately.

Quick update to my life:

I’ve joined Jaiku: http://gamerchick02.jaiku.com/ .  If you’re a member over there, feel free to friend me.

I’ve got Gwibber working with Jaiku and my other social sites.  It’s still incredible.  I didn’t think there’d be something so simple to upload to many different sites.

I’ve got Ping.fm working with all my different sites, as well as on my mobile phone.  Silly phone posts take FOREVER to get to the respective services (like an hour or so; better than 2 days earlier this summer).  I still think it’s a good idea.

I wonder if Posty works with Jaiku.  I will have to try that out when I boot into Windows again.

My phone is acting up.  I can’t download any ringtones or anything from it.  I can’t even send ringtones to my phone and then retrieve them.  Stupid phone.  I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’ve got an error: “Error 136, bad HA address”.  I have no clue what it means.  I sent an email to virgin mobile.  If I don’t hear from them by Wednesday next week, I’ll call and see if I can’t get it resolved.

I was checking on twitter and on identi.ca… I have 677 posts on twitter, and 822 on identi.ca.  Insane.  I’ve taken to this microblogging thing.  It’s kind of cool to be able to tell people what you’re doing.  Quicker than an email, shorter than a blog.  Easy as an SMS.  :)

Oh, I ordered a wireless card for my laptop, as well as a 7-port USB hub for my desktop.  I wanted the card so I can actually use wireless in Linux (Ubuntu or Mandriva) and the hub so I can plug all my doodads into my computer without climbing behind the machine with a flashlight and plugging stuff in.  I have some 1.0 ports on the front, but they don’t work well with new doodads.  Go Newegg!  All that stuff was only about 54 bucks (and that includes shipping).  Not bad, considering that I’d pay over 100 at Best Buy or the like.

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Twitter and identi.ca are like IRC

No, really.

I’ve found that twitter and identi.ca operate similarly to irc.

Hear me out.  Irc is a group of people in a “room” talking to each other about one (or multiple) topics.  Twitter/identi.ca is a group of people talking to each other about many different topics.  The only difference between the two is that irc happens in real time, and twitter/identi.ca happens in sort of real time; much like a BBS or a message board.

Only there are no topics.  No folders to hold different conversations.  It’s like a web 2.0 message board with tags to organize what’s going on (on identi.ca anyway).

What does everyone else think of this?  Try it out (either twitter or identi.ca) and tell me what you think.

I recommend identi.ca because the conversations are more intelligent (it seems).  Creativegeek, don’t get mad at me!  :)

Now, I’m off for some more reading, and maybe some Guitar Hero on Tour.

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Posty

I found a Windows client for identi.ca.  Brilliant.  It’s called Posty and it runs on the Adobe Air platform.

Check it out here.  It’s ridiculously easy to use.  If you don’t mind the Adobe Air platform, it’s a very nice program.

 I think I’ll keep it around.  Twhirl had many windows for many accounts; this program allows you to have one window for all your accounts.

The dark theme isn’t my favorite, but it will work.  I’m gonna keep this around.

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Social Networks

I can safely say that Livejournal was the first “social network” I belonged to.

It’s much more than a blog; it’s a community of people that I’ve grown to enjoy spending my time around.  It’s one of the reasons I pay for the service now (I was a free user for the longest time).

Now, I’m a member of many “social networks”.

  • Twitter
  • Pownce
  • Identi.ca
  • Myspace
  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • Youtube
  • deviantArt
  • LinkedIn
  • last.fm
  • Friendfeed
  • delicious

Ok, so Facebook is related to school; Digg is a way to keep track of my fav web articles; Youtube is a way to fav videos; LinkedIn is related to my professional contacts; delicious is my way of keeping my bookmarks organized; and Friendfeed is just a way to feed it all together.  I’m wondering if the whole Tumblr thing would be better…

Anyway, enough with the excuses.  I’m a social network whore.

My latest addiction has been to identi.ca because of it’s open-ness and ease of use.  It’s a twitter clone, but better.  Better because it’s open-source, more stable, and seems faster.  I just like it better.

Feel free to add me on any of those services.  I’m gamerchick02 on all but delicous (where I’m rpgirl1981) and deviantArt (where I’m gamerchick03).  For Facebook, you can search on my school and name.  Or just email me and ask me to add you or give you permission to add me.

Edit: Just added Tumblr. My profile’s to the left.