Of marrying Twitter, Feedly and Google Wave
I’ve been so busy reading that I thought I should share the awesome. I am a believer in e-polyandry as I would like to marry these following sites.
As a matter of fact, I love it so much that I want to get an iPhone or some such thing just so that I will never ever ever be without my preciouses* and I loathe cellphones.
1. Twitter
I’ve briefly told you about my love for Twitter. My love is now of the obsessive sort where I would follow it everywhere, go albino a la The Bodyguard and send it 160 character love letters with glued newspaper letters.
Now that you know it is mine, all MINE…ahem…if you actually want to know what it is: Twitter is a micro blogging site where you can follow clever/entertaining/informative folk in your lines of interest. They (and you) update sms length strings of text about what you are currently reading/doing/find interesting.
I use it primarily to find out more about my work. It is an incredibly useful filtering tool. People who like what I like, and who know more than I do, give me links to information which just about rock my world and keep me from blogging.
Do try it. And add me if you want to know more about the sheer awesome that is SEO, social media strategy and other generally prod buttock internetty things.
2. Google Wave
This relationship is in the idiot 14 year old first kissathon stage**. Gwave is all awkward limbs, and tripping anxiety but anyone with half a brain can see the superstar adult it will be. I figure if I marry it early it won’t know better and leave me when it hits the Big Time.
What it is: other than the above and previously mentioned post, it is a collaboration tool which mashes instant messaging, email, file sharing and brainstorming all in one. You can have private waves or public ones…take a moment to really think what that means for spreading ideas…
/gooseflesh…let me know on Twitter what your Gwave address is and we’ll play together.
3. Feedly
This is a brand, spanking new love. Our eyes met across the Firefox Add On page and that the immediate attraction had us gravitate towards each other, never losing eye contact, and start a conversation about all the things I love. It was a bit scary how Feedly knew so much about me*** but it felt like coming home****.
What it is:
Firefox Addons say: “A magazine-like startpage. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube and Amazon.”
I love almost all things Google but the reader was clumsy and daunting to say the least – I follow a lot of sites – but this…this is just gorgeous. This is from one of the sites I would shell out cash money to read:
Mashable: “Feedly takes the concept of the homepage and takes it to the next level by providing a real-time summary of the most relevant content available on the web based on your interests, your reading patterns, and recommendations from your friends. You can take your different profiles, bookmarks, and accounts from sites like Twitter (), Yahoo Mail, GMail () and Friendfeed (), and apply them to your Feedly.”
I’ll give y’all a proper YGM soonish.
*LOTR reference fully intended.
**I’ve mostly no idea what I am doing but even so the fumbling is wonderful.
***Not kidding…if it wasn’t so awesome it would be very scary. A cookie miner/history trawler program of some kind? Hmmmm.
**** Where home=drool inducingly pretty and convenience maximized lay out.
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