It’s All Monitoring, Where Is The Retweet?

There are several ways to monitor your social stream but why isn't there anyway to share it? By sharing, I am thinking beyond having it duplicated to Friendfeed. I want to be able to post the interesting Tweets I see and that spark additional thoughts or opinions. Since everything IS about monitoring I am satisfied I won't miss anything. When I'm watching.

 With Threadsy you can monitor your email (aol, gmail, yahoo, hotmail), Twitter (multiply accounts even), Facebook, and even IM (if you're still using it), all within your browser. One tab and in real time. It's not all inbound because you can also compose an email or update your status. Directly to each service.

Friendfeed offers such a wide variety of feeds it will digest. You usually end up duplicating your posts and the content you're watching. This is how Friendfeed becomes it's [your] own worst enemy. You end up sharing so much from  the song you're listening to right now, as you're reading this, to what you'll be eating at a lunch meeting. It can get noisy quick. In order to turn down the noise you need to focus in on one user, one group, or do a search. Not an appealing way to post or share your content.

Everything seems to be in real-time. This is true, but I still like to read certain blogs. So you'll still need a reader. I like to use Google Reader but prefer to read it through Feedly. Feedly in Chrome is best. It's not all reading either. Feedly offers nine 'share buttons' that allow you to share anything you've read with your social network. One of them is my favorite…see below. It is however missing a source: Twitter. My choice, yes, because I could add an RSS feed of my Twitter stream. The downside is that  it will be a LOT of updates to sift through in Feedly.

Posterous makes my blogging easy. As easy as email. I know, cheesy and straight from their site. However it's true. If you're not familiar with Posterous, all you do is send your blog post via email to post [at] posterous [dot] com. Posterous will then send that post to any additional social network you choose. My posts go to Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, and an old WordPress blog I stopped posting to after the election. I picture Posterous as a mega-phone.

So yeah, I have several services I like. They all work extremely well. The only thing is they are all still missing something. Posting. Not just the ability to post but what I want to post. I could see any of these three services filling my need. I am purposely leaving out Friendfeed.

I need the ability to make a blog post out of any status update I want.

If it's from Twitter, I want to turn a status update into a blog post. With the quoted status update and users avatar in the post. As it would if you linked to a specific update. I want this blog post to be done through Posterous. I don't want Posterous to loose site and become a funnel too. I'd rather they stay a megaphone and handled it through their bookmarklet or an added service to something like Threadsy. If it is added to Threadsy then I could comment as I see it coming through my Twitter stream. Allowing me to have my thoughts when I have them; in real-time.

As I was writing this something struck me. I am looking to redefine what it means to "RETWEET". If any of the services I love would think of it as redefining 'retweet'. I believe a solution could be integrated into any of them. (Hint: Threadsy add a Posterous box below the 'retweet' button in the unbound window under each update.)

I left Friendfeed out because I think Facebook is going to do exactly this. Redefine the 'retweet'. Facebook isn't the service I want though.

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My Social Inbox: Threadsy

On any typical day I will have Seesmic Desktop open monitoring my Twitter and Facebook accounts along with Gmail in a Chrome browser. Gmail lets me monitor my incoming emails along with friends of mine who would like to chat. All of those app's on top of each other, fill up my 19" monitor (secondary, I throw that out to sound cool). Both work exceptionally well by themselves but to have one less app running would be nice.

I found out about Threadsy through TechCrunch50. I can monitor my email (Gmail- or aol, hotmail, yahoo), Twitter, Facebook, and chat (thru Gmail) all in one browser. All from one service. Let me say it again ONE SERVICE. It's nice. The organization of it all is what makes it useful. The wide column, inbound, is your inbox of messages addressed to you from email, Facebook, or an @replies from twitter. Making it easier to see by pulling them from the stream. The stream goes by in the narrow unbound window. You can update your status to Twitter, Facebook, and chat from the unbound window.

There are little things that help make this service even more valuable. I'll try to explain:

1. When you receive an email in your inbound window click on it. In the unbound window you'll see all the social networks that user is subscribed to. Making it easy, if you weren't aware, where to see their most current status updates. It's a nice feature when you think about it.
2. Receive and @reply in Twitter and the unbound window will show the stream from that user that sent you the @reply.
3. While watching the Twitter and Facebook stream in the unbound window you'll see a small preview of attached pic's or video's
4. Compose and respond to emails through Threadsy

It's not the most comprehensive review of Threadsy. That's only because I can't completely explain how awesome it is. I'm excited. So you know, Threadsy is in beta. Fill out the request. I'm not certain, but I don't think I waited longer than a week. Since it is in beta there are bugs. I also believe you'll have a better experience if you are a Firefox user. Some of the features don't work in Chrome from my experience. They are working on them, quickly, but there are quirks in Chrome. Threadsy is going places, watch for Thursday,October 22, 2009 episode of the Gillmor Gang to hear more.

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Free Legos, No Sale: Sad Saga of the Full-Scale Lego House

via dornob.com

I think I know how this feels. I have built cargo planes, semi-trucks, bungalows, cars and even a windmill. Just to have my son tear them apart. He doesn’t even bother to try and separate them by color or size.

The home was built for a BBC show Toy Stories. Let me know when & where I can get my hands on this episode?

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Modern Family: Architecture Please

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One of my new favorite shows of this season is Modern Family. The show has been a comedy steam train. It started out well but slow. Now after 5 or 6 episodes it is getting close to cruising speed. Wait, it’s gaining steam.

That’s not the reason for this post though. I want to know about the architecture. Jay and Gloria live in a beautiful house. Slick and modern. Unfortunately, and frankly a big mistake on ABC’s part, they do not have any clips featuring the homes. When you think about your family, or childhood doesn’t the home you live in slip-in? The ABC site gives you a glimpse into the families with pic’s and on the couch interviews, but as a viewer I want more.

I want to know the architects and designers of all the homes. If anyone notices any other blogs that features them, hook me up with a link here. Thanks.

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Balloon Boy Parody: I’m In a Box!

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I especially like this because I am so BITTER! I believed those douche-bags when I saw them interviewed on the Today Show.

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RUMOR: Google to Launch Its Own Phone Through Retailers

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I don’t know if I should get excited about this or not.

Before I do, and maybe I need to read the article from TheStreet, Can I buy the phone from the retailer and get service through my [preferred provider]?

Until then. I can’t say if it is smart or not.

I will predict Google will team up with HTC. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google purchases them. If not become a controlling majority shareholder.

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John Mayer Releases Augmented Reality Music Video

via mashable.com

I like how John decides to take chances on technology. His way without compromising his passion for his art.

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‘Clean Coal’ for Energy? Not So Fast DOE. : Gas 2.0

via gas2.org

Finally, I am hearing someone else say it:
“From an Administration that is attempting to reduce America’s dependence on oil through greenhouse gas emissions reductions, this is one of the—excuse me—stupidest ideas our country has had… at least for today. Look people, coal is NOT clean, even though the coal industry wants you to believe it is,”
This isn’t the only obvious fact that is overlooked with hopes to call ourselves GREEN that Joanna Schroeder at gas2.0 points out:
“One of the biggest criticisms of electric vehicles (EVs) other than concerns about battery production and recycling, is the fact that a large majority of the EVs that are currently (and in the future) being charged are using electricity created from dirty coal. In many regards, cite pundits of coal use, this negates some of the positive the benefits derived from electric vehicles.”
You know what. Just read the article. I don’t want them ban me from their site because I am lifting all the good parts.

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Another Test

Another Test
So I downloaded Firefox. Logged in and got the Posterous Bot to respond as it should. Now I am back in Chrome. This time when I add the Posterous Bot to this Wave. It gave me the confirmation that it will post correctly.

What I am wondering now is “Did I just have to get the initial bot setup in Firefox?” or “Will I need to Login in once a day through Firefox?” If I remember correctly the author of the bot did say that your login credentials are kept for a day.

We’ll see tomorrow I guess.

via google-wave-robot

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Let’s Try This Again

Let’s Try This Again ((tags:wave))
Earlier today I tried to post to Posterous, using the posterous-robot@appspot.com robot, through Google Wave. It didn’t work. I tried all kinds of things. It wasn’t until I went back to the post How To Write A Blog Using Google Wave Robot,by the robot’s author, that I realized I needed to change my browser. Change my browser? I am using Chrome!

I was reluctant. Here I am using Firefox as he suggested. So far so good. The bot responded as he described so that must have been what it was.

via google-wave-robot

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