Apologies to any readers who haven’t drunk the Web2.0 kool-aid and are puzzled by the title.
It’s just occurred to me why I don’t like twitter – It doesn’t fulfill any need that isn’t already fulfilled by del.icio.us. I usually post a note alongside each bookmark which lets me micro-blog (post short comments without having to think too much). If I want to signal to someone to take a look at the bookmarked item I just tag it for:[nameofperson] which I suppose you could loosely call ‘chat’. Since I gave up personal blogging, del.icio.us has fulfilled a need for short-hand blogging. Thinking about it – twitter is like del.icio.us but without the bookmarks – viewed in that light it really is hard to understand why anyone would use twitter.
What do you use to post to delicious?
Paul,
I’m old-skool. I use a [sharp intake of breath] … bookmarklet.
http://del.icio.us/help/buttons
Does it send updates via IM and text message? ;-)
‘Cept I’m rarely “in” delicious, I just use the bookmarklet. So when I get sent links it can be weeks later before I see them!
Both good, but different.
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Old-skool is cool Sxoop but I find the bookmarklet even is slow for entry. It is multiple fields too and requires you to think about tagging. I also use delicious as a “read later” system and wouldn’t want to clutter up my micro-blogging with it.
I think you are onto something though. A twitter-delicious mashup could work well.
Yes!
I want a service that automatically send my Delicious entries to Twitter!
Then I get the folksonomy of Delicious and the distribution of Twitter.
“it really is hard to understand why anyone would use twitter.”
Thank goodness you re-evaluated because I’m thoroughly enjoying your tweets from Mix07. Microblogging in where twitter finds its niche IMHO.
heheh. Tom Raftery and I had a “robust discussion” about twitter last night. I know I’ve begun using twitter more frequently but I still don’t see it’s usefulness. Someone last night called twitter “bebo for the slightly more mature” – they nailed it.
I said this 7 months ago …
“I want a service that automatically send my Delicious entries to Twitter!”
… and just found this again because I’m still looking. A service that would turn annotation into a tweet, adding a tinyurl for the bookmark. From there, Twitter distributes to Facebook, etc.
Anyone?
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