Comments on: Plurk, Twitter, BrightKite, Hellotxt, Ping.fm, FriendFeed et al can they work together?

By: RE Mogul

RE Mogul — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:43:52 +0000

As for the MUCH LARGER picture (beyond Nickcowie.com), think about mimicing real-conversation, as those avoid interference organically.

By: RE Mogul

RE Mogul — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:57:37 +0000

Hmmm… So much to unravel.
Search engines solve everything.

:::: One search to unite them all ::::

Perhaps:

1) Design a search for post with “yourname/handle” & reply:ondate.

2) Add-in a way to pull them all down (daily interval,) and there goes.

3) For the visitor, a cookie can remember searches.

Regarding content integrity:
Design a tiered-comment system with expound on post or “sidebar” option.

By: Nick Cowie » Twitter, Plurk and FriendFeed as discussion tools.

Nick Cowie » Twitter, Plurk and FriendFeed as discussion tools. — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:30:56 +0000

[...] up from my previous post on Conversation vs Noise. This is about carrying out discussions, this is not about status updates like “I just had [...]

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:11:46 +0000

I think we need an aggregation format that includes two key concepts:
1) Definitive source, and
2) Definitive/monitored comment location.

So, you could post on your blog and feed readers could provide a link back to the blog page for comments. You could post on twitter and other services could flag themselves as “comments not monitored” and link to Twitter. Or, we’ll get a service which purely handles comments. So all other services can ingest the comments from that definitive source and display them in situ; replies go to the comment service (which just has to track a URI and comments to that URI).

I signed up for ping.fm the other day and found myself thinking… “no way am I going to monitor plurk for comments, i’m already watching twitter and pownce and a blog and flickr and livejournal and facebook and…….”

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:27:26 +0000

I know, I was tempted to remove the standard comment form from this blog. But most people do not have a FriendFeed account. Disqus was an option but I will stick with the old school method for the time being, that is what I expect most of the typical visitors to this blog expect.

By: Jordan Brock

Jordan Brock — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:57:44 +0000

I know … in the end it’s easier not to comment.

Actually, I had a moment’s confusion when I was going to write the previous comment … should I comment here, or on FriendFeed. All too confusing :)

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:31:21 +0000

Jordan that is what I am talking about, the level of noise or echo from a single post. I managed to generate 36 entries in my lifestream on profilatic with 3 posts to ping.fm or hellotxt.

And the big question is where would you comment on @lu_lu#&8217;s photo? Twitter or Flickr and would you miss any discussion carried out on Plurk, FriendFeed etc.

By: Jordan Brock

Jordan Brock — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:03:21 +0000

The problem that I have with ping.fm and the like, and in fact a lot of aggregators in general, is that if you follow a person on a number of services, then there’s all of a sudden an incredible amount of noise being generated. Not to pick on @lu_lu in anyway, but the other day I saw the same mini-blog about a flickr photo she posted on Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed (four times), her RSS feed and then my Flickr contacts feed.

I can see the need for these services, but it’s forcing me to choose one service to use as a consumer/friend, because otherwise I’m filtering out an incredible of noise. And currently, for me at least, it’s looking like it’s going to be twitter that wins.