FriendFeed - a portal to some of the social networks for which I am a member

FriendFeed

FriendFeed integrates with: Amazon.com, brightkite, delicious, Digg, Diigo, Disqus, Flickr, Furl, Gmail, Goodreads, GoogleReader, GoogleTalk, iLike, identi.ca, IntenseDebate, Jaiku, Last.fm, LibraryThing, LinkedIn, Ma.gnolia, Mister, Mixx, Netflix, Netvibes, Pandora, Picasa, Plurk, Polyvore, Pownce, Reddit, Seesmic, SlideShare, SmugMug, StumbleUpon, tipjoy, Tumblr, Twitter, Upcoming, Vimeo, Wong, Yelp, YouTube, Zooomr

At FriendFeed, at my profile, this Web portal to some of my social networks is shown at the top:

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Clicking on any of these icons causes the related social networking site to appear, whilst staying at FriendFeed.

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Web 2.0 - My mission critical tools

(Short URL: is.gd/27Ie)

• Blogging -
  
• Blogs in Plain English
• Why I Blog
• My Blogs: Blogger [erich13, EpiphanySuit], WordPress, More of my blogs»
• I post, usually, from Flock's Blog Editor
  
• Delicious, and other Social Bookmarking
  
• Social Bookmarking in Plain English
• I add to Delicious either from Flock's Favorites manager or from Shareaholic (available for Firefox and for Flock)
  
• Flickr - Photo/screenshot hosting
• Uploading to Flickr via Flock's Uploader
• Flock Flickr Screencast video
  
• Flickr Tutorial
• Flock - The browser that integrates/encapsulates my Web 2.0 experience
  
• Why Flock?
• "Meet your new favorite browser", for Social Animals, for Shutterbugs, for Bloggers, fo Media Junkies, for News Hounds.
• The tweaks that I make to Flock
• Google Calendar
• Take a tour of Google Calendar »
  
• Learn More
• How To: Twitter updates to Google Calendar via direct message to the "gcal" Twitter user
• Google Docs
  
• Google Docs in Plain English
• An example of my use of Google Docs, essentially a custom dashboard, [Framed] =A-List*»
• Google Notebooks
• Google Notebook Tour
• Why would I want to use Google Notebook?
• Google Notebook Firefox Extension
  
• Jott -
  
• How to Jott
  
• Jott Apps
  
• Jott, a love story
• Remember The Milk (RTM) - Todos
  
• www.rememberthemilk.com/services/gmail/
• Send direct messages from cell phone, browser or instant message to your todo list via twitter user called "rtm"
• SeaMonkey's Composer - SeaMonkey is the all-in-one internet application suite formerly known as the "Mozilla Application Suite"
• "SeaMonkey's powerful yet simple HTML editor keeps getting better with dynamic image and table resizing, quick insert and delete of table cells, improved CSS support, and support for positioned layers. For all your documents and website projects, Composer is all you need." - www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/features
  
• Twitter, and other Microblogs
• Twitter in Plain English
• Posting via TwitterFox, Twitter, Ping.fm, Hellotxt, SwitchAbit
  
• Vim
• "Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set." - www.vim.org/about.php
• for pure text editing, especially useful to me for mass modification, as I am a whiz at VI ("v" "i", not "vi")

What are your Web 2.0 mission critical tools?

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sharing short urls

Here's a quick tip about how to share a shortened URL with people...

1. Go to a web page
2. Use your favorite URL shortening site/tool to get the short URL
3. Use your favorite folksonomy* (e.g. del.icio.us, ma.gnolia) to share the web page...
4. ...add the short URL to the description of the favorite/bookmark (at the folksonomy site).
5. (optional) memorize the short URL

For example:

1. At Twitter's direct sent messages web page
   
2. Click on the is.gd button () in your browser
3. Click on del.icio.us "TAG" button**, or Shareaholic»del.icio.us, or the Star icon*** on the Navigation Toolbar in Flock
4. Paste the short URL (created in step #2) in to the description field of the shared item
   
5. Memorize that is.gd/1llE is the short URL (that's number one, lower case letter L, lower case letter L, upper case letter E). Regarding memorization, it would be easier to use a short URL generator that allows you to customize or taylor it to make it easier to remember. An example of this is snipurl.com, where you can pick a "nickname", of up to 20 characters in length. For example: http://snipurl.com/twitter_direct_msgs

• delicious.com/eric.k.herberholz/twitter+shortcut
  

By the way, I really like is.gd short URLs because they are *so* short, compared to other short URL generators, and because you can also attach a dash ("-") at the end of the URL to give a preview of where the URL will take you. For example, click here: is.gd/1llE-

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References:

• is.gd/instructions.php - Basic instructions, including a bookmarklet and Firefox Add-On ( Click here to visit the plugin site and install it.)
  

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* "Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content." - Wikipedia

** Tag button...

*** [orange] Star icon on the Navigation Toolbar:

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