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On Sun, 1 May 2011, Philip Hudson wrote:
On 1 May, 2011, at 8:53 pm, Paul Sutton wrote:we need to embrace what everyone uses so that we can perhaps find a way to promote the alternativesFor those who use Twitter, the FLOSS equivalent, identi.ca, allows you to integrate pretty seamlessly with Twitter. Whatever you tweet in identi.ca appears to your Twitter followers, and whoever you follow in Twitter appears in identi.ca. The Twitter address in my footer below is just a proxy for my "real" identi.ca account, DubFish. What little microblogging I do takes place there, even though my few followers are all (so far) on Twitter. The gateways, once set up with the right permissions, make it all transparent.
Too transparent?I just had a look at identi.ca - it allowed me to create an account with them and login - with my current twitter credentials (although they tell me they don't get my password), and then anything I tweet gets put to identi.ca and vice versa (so what's the point?)
Or it would have it it's captcha hadn't failled to be displayed for me.
Presumably, there are/will be similar gateways between FB and Diaspora.
Highly likely. And you can link LinkedIn to both facebook and Twitter, so no-matter where you type, it's echoed everywhere. Oh Joy...
Is it me, or does this cross platform proliferation just dilute the total content?
I use Facebook, (& twitter and LinkedIn) but I always go through all their privacy settings every time there is a scare or they update it. Sure - they probably do get a lot of information about me that they can sell on - but that's the price for having a useful service, right?
identi.ca has 2 tracking systems on it's front page. (google analytics and PiWiK Analytics), Twitter has one (google analytics) and face book has one (doubleclick)
Put http://www.ghostery.com/ into firefox if that sort of thing concerns you.
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