Saturday, April 26, 2008

MySocial 24X7

I had been using Twhirl and AlertThingy for doing all my Twitter and FriendFeed maintenance  but found that it wasn't convenient for me and there wasn't a lot of extra value in running them on the desktop.  I was able to get all of them running on both my Vista and Ubuntu boxes successfully.  AIR is a good thing !!?!

Then I found the MySocial addin for Firefox.  I ALWAYS have a browser up anyway.  This addin let me have all of my FF stuff viewable.

It isn't perfect by any grade.  It won't remember my FF key between browser starts.  Each time I restart the browser I need to reenter the account and key.  The "remember me" box is visible but not active.  I can't check it.

It also doesn't automatically refresh on some timely schedule.

I am just now getting a grip on how best to utilize the feeds coming in through FriendFeed.  Most of the key players who I use to keep up with technology are publishing via Twitter.  The content is on their blogs.  I could certainly subscribe via RSS to them but watching their twitter streaming is painless.  Now with FF I also have a way to comment via the FF and start another channel of discussion.


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