Comments on: Personalising your social web should be a personal choice.

By: Steve Dale

Steve Dale — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:10:31 +0000

The good thing about all these apps and agents is that they are giving users more choice on how to organise their social web, so all credit to TwitchBoard (and the many others) who seek to make life easier for the networked masses!

By: TwitchBoard

TwitchBoard — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:15:50 +0000

Hi Steve,

I created TwitchBoard, and I appreciate the discussion around it. I think you’re right that TwitchBoard’s auto-post to Del.icio.us functionality is not for everyone. There are many ways to “architect” one’s personal social web, and TwitchBoard’s model is just one. I saw that for many people, Twitter was becoming a primary venue for link sharing, but unfortunately Twitter itself is not as well-suited for archiving links as is a more tailored service like Del.icio.us. After hearing many calls for this type of integration, I decided to build a platform for it, and hope it’s useful for users. Thanks for the feedback!

By: Links and Twitter | DavePress

Links and Twitter | DavePress — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:27:16 +0000

[...] Steve Dale writes about his uneasiness with a new Twitter mashup service, Twitchboard, which automates the posting of content from Twitter to other social web services. At the moment, all it does is links: if you post a URL to Twitter it also gets pinged to your Delicious account. I may be in the minority here but I feel slightly troubled by apps such as Twitchboard that want to think for me. I’m perfectly happy to create my own bookmarks in Delicious, which are reasonably well organised and categorised, or to click on Stumble! to add a link to a particularly interesting article I’ve read to my Stumble! These are conscious decisions I’ve made to provide the ’semantic glue’ for my personalised social web. I tend to Tweet about fairly trivial stuff and will occasionally link to an article or picture that I’ve found particularly amusing. I don’t necessarily want to store these links for prosperity, or worse, create my own personal tag cloud around a random stream consciousness. [...]

By: Dave Briggs

Dave Briggs — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:14:45 +0000

I’m trying it out using the RSS of my delicious feed and Twitterfeed. Should start working any minute now!

By: Steve Dale

Steve Dale — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:08:45 +0000

Hi Dave – thanks for the comment. I guess it’s a personal preference at the end of the day. I’m guilty (if that’s the word) of auto-posting blog posts to twitter, but I tend to keep blogs relevant to my professional life and use Twitter as a ‘fun’ social blogging tool. I try to be quite organised about what I tag in delicious and don’t really want to clutter my tags up with trivia.

I like the idea of delicious links being auto-shared in Twitter. There must be an app that does this – must go and check the top 100 Twitter mashups I’ve just blogged!

By: Dave Briggs

Dave Briggs — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:38:22 +0000

I dunno, Steve – I think there might be some value in Twitchboard. I’m generally against services that cross-spam different networks with content, like facebook status and twitter for example, or auto-posting blog posts to twitter.

But I share quite a few links on Twitter, and not having to go through the hassle of adding them to delicious too would be rather useful.

One other way around would be to do it in reverse, ie links saved in delicious get auto-shared in Twitter. That seems a better fit to me, as it enables you to do your own tagging and comments etc.