The Social Media Consolidation Project
Twitter , Facebook, Blogs, IMs, YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn, Yelp, it’s a truckload of information on me on the net as well as a truckload of great places for social interaction but the problem is this: it’s still a truckload.
There’s gotta be a better way.
I recently started taking FriendFeed seriously and glad that I did. It’s my favourite social media platform and allows me to discover and discuss various topics in realtime. I haven’t really been using it to it’s full potential to aggregate all of my networks into one place nor have I really gone and fine tuned all of my social platforms and this has caused at least one problem. I keep forgetting whether I have accounts at some of these places.
The other thing is that while Facebook has an image gallery section, Flickr does it better. FriendFeed is better at having conversations than Twitter, but Twitter has way more activity. These duplication of services kill me, and I don’t want one place to do everything because if it does everything, it generally does it badly. Web-apps that are focused are way better at doing that one thing than an app that does several. Yes, I’m looking at you Facebook.
I also detest the clutter that accumulates as some of these web-apps grow (again, Facebook, I see you there). I want to have clean interfaces and focused content for each app while still having somewhere to aggregate all of it. And so, the great social media consolidation officially begins.
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