The Interconnectedness of All Things

After an interesting meeting today, I thought I’d do a mini-audit of how all the Web 2.0 applications I use are currently connected and configured, and was quite intruiged to find the following:

So, assuming anyone following me is doing so through one of three channels…

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. This blog (via RSS feeds)

…then you should be able to see pretty much everything I am posting (with the blog offering a more formalised feed, effectively with me selectively filtering the information). Facebook & Twitter will give the “warts ‘n’ all” view on what I’m up to.  So, the question is, can this be simplified/optimised.

e.g. Posts to Flickr eventually make their way to Facebook twice, but the post coming via Twitter doesn’t show the image, whereas the direct link from Flickr to Facebook will show a thumbnail in my news feed.  Removing either will therefore either result in a less-pretty news feed on Facebook, or no Flickr info on my Twitter feed.  Rock and a hard place…!

Similar problem with the blog feed, as the direct link from the blog to Facebook gives a nicer post than the one coming via Twitter, but I don’t want to lose the blog posts going on the Twitter feed…

So, can anyone offer any thoughts on improvements to this data flow?

This entry was posted on Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 12:38 am and is filed under On the Web. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.