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I don't mind going to different sites to do different things, rather than having everything handled under one umbrella. Mainly because, for example, I find fli

I don't mind going to different sites to do different things, rather than having everything handled under one umbrella. Mainly because, for example, I find flickr to be a better photo sharing and management experience than some other site that has photo handling tacked on as a secondary feature. Admittedly, twitter's interface isn't the best for what it is (and they keep shutting down tools/sites/apps that might end up with a better interface found via experimentation), and there have been (some successful) attempts at a tool that abstracts away the social network and technical part of different sites and lets you interact with more of them at once. Oddly, it seems other people sometimes do mind going to other sites. Family wanted to know why I didn't post photos to facebook so they could see them. I had been posting links to other sites where I had uploaded them for public viewing and apparently even clicking on a link to go see them was too much cognitive load. However, what I do mind is the walled garden nature of the different sites that keep me from easily and effectively aggregating all my actions across the internet into a single place: both for my own purposes and as a jumping off point for other people to explore.However, twitter keeps shutting down easy access to my data (I can't tell if the v1 api call for favorites via RSS is still enabled, it seems to periodically work; last I checked, there doesn't appear to be a new way, without oauth, to get a feed of favorites). Facebook has an "export" function, but it seems to be all or nothing and single shot, and integrating. Flickr generally has good external integration via simple RSS, but I think that's because Flickr "gets it": they are a photo sharing site and they are not focused on keeping people on the site. That's most likely due to their monetization model. Unfortunately, services that did this, like friendfeed and memolane, are dead or dying. It's really hard to create and maintain one, especially one that is more unified interface than just data aggregation, when the landscape for sharing and integration keeps changing out from under you as sites try to lock users in. The focus on creating an all-in-one do-everything experience rather than something that compliments the features of other sites contributes to this, I think.

wslh 13y ago
> I don't mind going to different sites to do different things, rather than having everything handled under one umbrella. In my perspective things change when you are using services for business rather than personal consumption. There are SO MANY sites that can capture your interest or where you want to just duplicate that blog post or copy your tweet to other sites, and are impossible to manage because we all have 24 hours days. In some way it is the same problem that arises in the long tail: probably there is a product that a million people want to consume but is unknown. Probably there are hundreds but we humans can't focus and handle periodically so many items. I think the problem is not the lack of resources but tools that help you to pick many of them with a simple interface.

wslh 13y ago

> I don't mind going to different sites to do different things, rather than having everything handled under one umbrella. In my perspective things change when you are using services for business rather than personal consumption. There are SO MANY sites that can capture your interest or where you want to just duplicate that blog post or copy your tweet to other sites, and are impossible to manage because we all have 24 hours days. In some way it is the same problem that arises in the long tail: probably there is a product that a million people want to consume but is unknown. Probably there are hundreds but we humans can't focus and handle periodically so many items. I think the problem is not the lack of resources but tools that help you to pick many of them with a simple interface.