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Episode: 25
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Title: HPR0025: Social Network Aggregation
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0025/hpr0025.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 10:26:41
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music
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Good afternoon, evening, morning, day, whatever it is.
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This is Peter from the Fresh Ubuntu podcast, and for a bit of a change of pace, I am joined
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by my co-host, Harlem.
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How are you doing, Harlem?
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Great.
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How are you doing, Peter?
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Things are doing just fine over here on the side, so.
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And you?
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I cannot complain.
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I can't complain.
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I could complain, but no one ever listens when I do, so I've stopped.
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Right.
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So today, we are going to be talking about something not directly Ubuntu related, as
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our regular listeners may be expecting.
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We are going to talk a little bit today about OpenID and the practical use of OpenID in
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social networking.
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One of the things that comes up a lot in our podcast is social networks and our Twitter
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accounts and things like that, so we're going to tie in a little bit of OpenID with
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that.
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So the first thing that we want to talk about is OpenID, and exactly what is OpenID.
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I'm going to give you just a very, very brief intro to OpenID.
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If you want to find out more, there's more info than you can shake a stick at available
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at OpenID.net.
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So first off, we should cover briefly what OpenID is.
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And basically, OpenID, I describe it as a distributed authentication mechanism.
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What it lets you do is you have yourself a username and a password, if you will, a login,
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with a specific OpenID provider.
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Then when you want to log on to another service somewhere else, for instance, email or some
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sort of account, you could imagine online banking or anything.
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I don't know.
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That may not be a great example just yet until people start to trust OpenID a little more.
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But the idea is that to log in, you no longer have to remember different user names and
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passwords for every site that you've visited, assuming that the site that you're visiting
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and trying to log in to supports OpenID.
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And that can be your single, you can have an OpenID as your single point of login.
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So you only need to log into one place, but you can log into many sites with that single
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login.
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It's pretty cool.
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Now the way it gets kind of confusing in some of the details, so I'm not going to go
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into those if you're really, you know, tech savvy and you want to know how OpenID works,
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check out OpenID.net and they've got all sorts of information there.
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But basically the gist of it is, again, you're going to log in to an OpenID provider's website.
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And once you're logged in there and authenticated, you can use that as a proxy login for somebody
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else.
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Alright, so first thing we want to do is we're going to get ourselves a couple of OpenID
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accounts.
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Now I have a couple of OpenIDs and I got one through an OpenID provider called idproxy.net.
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And I chose them because they had an interesting feature, whereas they use your Yahoo login to
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validate your OpenID login.
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So I chose them first because when I first went to login, I was following a tutorial and
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the example they gave used idproxy.net.
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And since I already had a Yahoo account, I said, well, this is pretty cool.
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I'll just use that.
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Turns out it's a little more complicated than I was expecting.
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It adds an extra step and I decided, you know, I'm just not going to do that right now.
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get myself a new OpenID.
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And this time I'm going to use my id.net.
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That's nyid.net.
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And Harlem, you got yourself an OpenID.
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Where did you get yours?
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So, well, I got mine at Vox and there are several reasons why I have that one.
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And we do this later on with Twitter feed.
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It allows you to work with several types of OpenID and OpenID.net will allow you to use
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your WordPress.com name or your Vox name, Technoroddy, for instance, and even AOL.
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So you may already have an OpenID, you know, considering if you're using any of these
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services already and that is AOL, live-door, live-journal, smug-mug, orange, Technoroddy,
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box, or WordPress.com.
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So check that first.
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Very good point.
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Very good point.
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I meant to cover on that.
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I'm glad you brought that up.
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Yeah, if I, for instance, I have an OpenID because I have a WordPress.com account, although
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I don't use it for anything right now.
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And I also have an AOL instant messenger account.
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So both of those can be used as OpenIDs.
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But for this purpose, I'm going to assume that you don't already have an OpenID and go
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ahead and create an account.
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But if you do have an AOL instant messenger account, then you can go ahead and use that,
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for instance, as your OpenID.
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If you want to find out how to do that, I'll put a link in the show notes to a couple
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of examples.
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But we're going to sign up and we're going to say, you know, you're starting from scratch,
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you don't have an OpenID, where do you go to get one?
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And the first place where I started was at OpenID.net and I did a little bit of reading
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and I clicked on the link of, how do I get one?
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And they listed a bunch of OpenID providers.
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And like Harlem said, AOL, Live Journal, Technoroddy, Vox, WordPress, those are all OpenID
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providers.
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But if you don't have accounts with any of those already, you can use something like
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claimid.com or MyID.net or MyOpenID.com.
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And we're going to choose MyID.net.
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Why?
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Because it has the shortest URL in the list.
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So that's why I'm choosing that.
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That's the only reason.
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Less typing.
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You know?
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Less typing.
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There you go.
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Of course, I had to mess everything up by choosing a user name of Nikolitis, which is
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like longer than MyID.net anyway.
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So I just doubled the length.
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I could have chosen something shorter.
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But anyway.
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So I went, yes, we do, we do digress often and early.
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But anyway, we're going to OpenID, sorry, MyID.net.
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And I'm going to click on the Create My ID link.
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So when I'm there, I'm prompted for a user ID, a password.
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I confirm my password and my email address.
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I punch in, fill in all those fields, agree that I have read the terms of service, which
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I strongly encourage I ruin to do, read through those terms of service before you agree
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to them, because you never really know what you're agreeing to.
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We can read it right now for you.
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We could, but that would be boring.
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That would just suck.
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That would, but anyway.
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So once you've got your OpenID, now the question is, what do you do with it?
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And we're going to use this as an example.
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What we're going to do with our OpenID, in this case, is we are going to use it to aggregate
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our social networking information.
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Harlan, give me the idea of what that means.
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Well, I believe what you're talking about is that if you belong to several social networks,
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such as Twitter or Pounds, Haiku or Jaiku, whatever they call it, even dig, you might want
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to aggregate all those things into one feed so that they show up into all your feeds.
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Is that what you're talking about?
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You read my mind.
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Wow.
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I'm good.
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Yeah.
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That or you read the email I sent you earlier.
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Yeah, that's what it was.
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It might have been.
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Good email, by the way.
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All right.
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Hey, thanks.
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All right.
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So the problem what we have is, Harlan and I, we both have accounts on Facebook, Twitter,
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Jaiku, Pounce, right?
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We've got all of these and the thing that we find every time we join a new social network
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is we've got to recreate all of our friends lists and then we've got to, you know, update
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multiple sources and it just becomes a hassle.
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Well, one way to fix that is to use the features that are provided by your social networking
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tools to keep your stuff in sync.
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Now, Twitter will publish its own, all of its information as an RSS feed and that's pretty
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handy.
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Now, out of the box, by default, Twitter does not provide a method to put stuff in to
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your Twitter account.
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But there is a third party service called Twitter feed, which will do just that.
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So one way we can take our social networking info and aggregate it all into Twitter is
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by using Twitter feed.
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Now, here's the catch.
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To get a Twitter feed account, you need to log in via an open ID.
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So that's where we're starting with the open ID.
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It's all coming together now.
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It's all comes together.
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It's like a plan and I love it when a plan comes together.
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So what we're going to do in this example is we're going to do our best to aggregate
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JICOO information, Pounce, Facebook status updates, Twitter, and what else was there?
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That'll probably be enough because we can do it with a few of these.
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You can figure out the rest and this example should get you in the right direction.
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So first starters, if we're going to use this tool, Twitter thing, you need to have
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a Twitter account, right?
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And that's really easy to get.
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If you want to have a Twitter account, just head on over to Twitter.com.
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If you don't know what Twitter is, then you've probably been living in a cave for the last
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couple of years.
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I recommend you just go to Twitter.com and check it out.
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You're probably going to have the first reaction you might have is either going to be, wow,
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that's really, really cool or why the heck would I want to be telling people like, you
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know, what I'm having for lunch or something to that effect?
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That was my first reaction, but then I switched over to the second, you know, oh, and that's
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really cool.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It brings out the first grader in you.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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It brings out the first grader in you.
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But the thing is, if you don't feel that way, then you probably want to stop listening right
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around now, or maybe, you know, about five, ten minutes ago when we started.
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Or take your iPod and put it underneath the car and run over it several times.
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I don't know if I'd go that far, but anyway.
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So we're going to assume that you have a Twitter account and that you know what its username
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and password is.
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So then we're going to head on over to our, let's see, how about Pounce?
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I have a Pounce account, which I want to aggregate into my Twitter feed.
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And if I go to Pounce.com slash Nikolitis, in my case, slash public, at the top of that
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page, you'll see the little RSS icon.
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And it actually links to Pounce.com slash feeds slash public slash Nikolitis, or your username
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in this case.
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So if I wanted to look at Harlem's feeds, for instance, I can do that by going to Pounce.com
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slash feeds slash public slash.
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Harlem, what's your username on Pounce?
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Fresh Ubuntu.
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Fresh Ubuntu.
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All right.
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So I'm going to punch that in.
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And sure enough, I see your public notes.
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Now note that this only has your public stuff.
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So messages that you just send to your friends and things will not show up here.
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But that's the kind of stuff that you want to have if you're going to be pushing it all
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over the place.
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You don't necessarily want to have your private information going all over the place.
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So we need to know where that feed is coming from.
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So that's part one, or maybe that's part five at this point.
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I've kind of lost track.
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But the next part I know is we're going to head on over to twitterfeed.com, and we're
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going to sign up for Twitter feed account, all right.
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So when you hit twitterfeed.com, you click on the log in or register button.
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Now Harlem, do you have a Twitter feed account yet?
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I have.
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Yes, I do.
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You do.
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Oh, you beat me to it.
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I didn't think you did already.
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Well, that's okay.
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It's easy to get one if you don't.
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That's as simple as putting your open ID into the box there and pressing log in.
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You do.
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That's exactly it.
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So the log in screen, you'll notice for Twitter feed.
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The log in screen is not asking you for a username and password.
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It's asking for your open ID.
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So I'm going to use my existing open ID, which is nickelitis.idproxy.net.
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And I'm going to sign in using that.
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So here I go, I'm signing in, I punch in the address, hey, look at this.
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You're logged in, hooray, and then it redirects me back to Twitter feed.
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I get to the log in page from my open ID provider, and I punch in that log in information.
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Agree to the terms of service because I've never logged in before.
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And then once that's done, I get prompted.
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And my open ID provider said, hey, this Twitter feed thing wants to authenticate you.
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Do you want to do that?
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And I say, yes.
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I get redirected back to twitterfeed.com.
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And with this, you have logged in as nickelitis.myid.net.
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Welcome.
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Glad you could make it.
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Well, thank you, Twitter feed.
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I'm glad to be here.
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Are you following along, Harlan?
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Is this working for you too?
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I am following along.
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Yep.
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Beautiful.
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Welcome to Twitter feed.
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I'm going to click on the go to my Twitter feeds or create one link.
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Now since I've already gotten an account with these guys, I have a bunch of feeds here.
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But we're going to just add one or take one out or whatever and just fiddle around with
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this.
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And the end goal is here is we're using Twitter to basically be the catch all.
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So in my case, Twitter is going to catch all my other updates and stuff, all my other
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social networking content.
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So the first thing we need to do is we need to create a new Twitter feed.
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So if I click on the little plus sign to create a, or next to the plus sign, I click on create
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new Twitter feed, I get a new screen.
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And it tells me to enter in my Twitter name or password for authentication.
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Now this is very important.
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You have to understand that we are giving our Twitter login to this company, Twitter
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feed, which has nothing to do with Twitter.
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There's no real affiliation between these two services, okay?
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So you have to understand that by using this service, you are giving some other fairly
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close to complete stranger your Twitter login.
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So understand that.
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I've taken this calculated step.
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I understand that I'm giving somebody else my Twitter login.
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And I'm trusting that they're not going to abuse it and that they're not going to let
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my identity and my Twitter feed fall into someone else's hands.
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But that's a very important thing.
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You don't want to just, you know, willy-nilly go out giving your user names and passwords.
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But in this case, it's a requirement because Twitter doesn't have any other way to import
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RSS feeds into your Twitter feed.
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So I'm going to punch in my username, my Twitter username, and my Twitter password.
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And I'm not going to tell you what those are right now.
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The next thing I'm asked for is my RSS feed URL.
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Now remember that we were looking at Harlem's Pounce profile.
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And what I'm going to do as a test is Harlem, I'm going to take your public Pounce notes
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and I'm going to stuff them into my Twitter feed.
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So basically what I'm doing is I'm cheating.
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I am adding free content to my Twitter feeds without having to do anything.
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It's kind of like me getting credit for the work you're doing.
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What do you think of that?
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Nah, hey, no problem.
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Not a problem to me.
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Hey, it's open source, right?
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Open source, we're over source.
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Exactly.
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So the RSS feed URL is the next thing it asks for.
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So I'm going to add Harlem's feed into mine.
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And the address is http colon slash slash pounce.com slash feeds slash public slash fresh Ubuntu.
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And I'm going to click the link at the right that says test RSS feed.
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And it says feed was parsed successfully.
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That's good.
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That means that, hey, we've got it and we can read that RSS feed.
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Now, Twitter feed gives you an option how often you want to update this.
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The default is every hour.
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I usually like to crank that down a little bit every 30 minutes.
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And it will let you post one, two, three, four, or five updates at a time.
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So if Harlem goes in and just starts posting public pounce updates like crazy, I may not
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catch them all.
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I may only catch up to 10 every hour.
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But that's generally sufficient because Harlem doesn't usually post a lot.
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So to his pounce public notes, certainly not more than 10 an hour, right?
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No, no way.
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Maybe.
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Yeah, not at all.
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10 a month.
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Exactly.
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So we're good, we're good.
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So it asks you then, the next thing is, do you want to include the title and the description
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or just the title or just the description?
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Now this generally applies to blogs because if you want to include a blog post, it may
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have in the RSS fields, it may have a title and a description.
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Many times those are the same thing so you don't want to include them both.
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Now for a pounce feed, I am going to just put the description only.
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And there's also an option to prefix each tweet with a maximum of 20 characters.
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So what that is is for instance, when I subscribe to my blog, I prefix everything with the word
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blog.
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And that tells people who are looking at my Twitter feed that, hey, this is a new blog
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post from Peter.
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And that way the link that they get will, you know, it can take you right to a blog post
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and you kind of know what you're getting in advance.
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So that's why I put that there.
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There's another option, a little checkbox to include an item link.
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And what that does is basically, if you leave that out, it's not going to have a link to
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the blog.
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So what that would do in this case is I would, if I unchecked it, I would tell people,
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hey, I just posted to my blog, but I wouldn't give them a link to it, which is not very
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user friendly.
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So I'm going to leave that checked.
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But in this case, since I'm having Harlem's, you know, Pounce Updates, I'm going to prefix
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it with Harlem's Pounce.
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And that way everything that we suck in from Harlem's Pounce feed will show up as Harlem's
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Pounce.
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So people will know that, you know, maybe they'll know they'll get the idea anyway that
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Harlem's, this is Harlem's content, not mine.
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Once I'm done, I'm going to click the Create button and bam, I have a new feed in my Twitter
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feed.
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So now all I need to do is I need to have Harlem go ahead and post a public note in Pounce.
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You think you can do that for everybody?
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Okay.
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I'll go to Pounce right now, hold on one second.
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Do, do, do, do, we need some music for this section too, you know?
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That would be awesome.
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You got anything you can recommend?
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Maybe something over the Iota promo net or something?
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Oh, fine, something.
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Okay.
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Something right now, I'm going to say hello, Twitter feed.
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Now here's the thing.
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There could be some delays in this.
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Now we don't know for instance how long it takes for a Pounce feed, you know, to, or
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a Pounce post to show up in your RSS feed.
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We also don't know exactly when Twitter feed is going to be checking the post.
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And we also don't know when Twitter might just be down, you know, and not receive the
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post.
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So there's a lot of variables here.
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Obviously, you don't want to be using this for any sort of, you know, mission critical
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kind of thing, you know, it's, it's all beta in the spirit of web 2.0.
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But it's cool nonetheless.
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So now that Harlem has posted it, some time is going to elapse and that message is
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going to show up.
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Now I got the email notification that you posted, hello, Twitter feed.
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But I'm not seeing it in your public notes just yet.
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Oh, there it is.
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On Twitter.
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So I'm going to take long at all.
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Not on Twitter, but I see it in your RSS.
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Oh, sweet.
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So.
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So sometime mail apps, we don't really know how long again, it could be up to 30 minutes
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before Twitter feed checks your Twitter post or your Pounce feed and sticks it into my
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Twitter feed.
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So while we're waiting for that, let's move on.
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And when are we going to add our blogs into my Twitter feed while we're at it?
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Now I happen to know my blogs RSS feed and the way I find that is I just went to my own
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blog.
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I visited that and I just looked at the RSS links and you can do this with any RSS feed.
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Like if you see that little RSS icon, the little thing that looks like little radio waves,
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broadcasting, little orange icon, if you just mouse over that, you can see what the URL
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is.
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And if you right click on it in most platforms or control click on a Mac, you can generally
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copy that link to the clipboard and then paste it in.
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Now I know that my blogs URL is blog.nicolitis.com slash question mark feed equals RSS2.
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So I'm going to go to my blog, I right click on that and I copy it to the clipboard.
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Back at my Twitter feed, I'm going to go in and I'm going to click again to create a
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new Twitter feed and I'm going to once again enter my Twitter name and password.
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And I'm going to paste in the RSS feed URL which again was blog.nicolitis.com, etc, etc.
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I'm going to update every hour because I generally don't blog more than once an hour and
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I'm going to leave everything else pretty much the same except I'm going to prefix each
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tweet with the word blog B-L-O-G.
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And that way again, it will tell everybody that hey, I just blogged something and I'm
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going to leave the link in there so that people get the idea.
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So now I'm capturing Twitter's, sorry, Harlem's Pounces and my blogs into my Twitter feed.
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That's all well and good but you know what, I'm probably not going to leave Harlem's stuff
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in there.
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I'm going to end up and put my own pound stuff.
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Now if I wanted to do the same thing with JaiKu, I can.
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So I'm going to head on over to my JaiKu account which is nicolitis.jaiKu.com.
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Punch that in and I'm just going to look around on that page for some RSS links.
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I'm looking, I'm looking and at the bottom of the page I see an RSS link.
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It says the latest from Nicolitis parentheses RSS.
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So I'm going to right click on that, I'm going to copy that link and I'm going to head
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back over to Twitter feed and I'm going to click to create a new Twitter feed.
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So I click on that and then now here's the thing, here's the problem though, I just realize
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I'm kind of going backwards because if I have my pounces going in to JaiKu and my JaiKu
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or my JaiKu is going into Twitter, that means I have to post in two locations.
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So I don't really want to do that, do I?
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Nope.
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No, no, I don't.
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Okay, take that back, I'm not going to do that, darn, I'm going to have to edit the heck
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out of this thing or not.
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Hey, you just post it, I would just post it, see what happens, right?
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So more than likely what I think I would rather do in JaiKu is since JaiKu does provide
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the ability to subscribe to something, to another feed, I'm going to do that instead.
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So if I go to my JaiKu account and I sign in, what I am doing now, a boom, and if I don't
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have a JaiKu account, it's easy, you go to JaiKu.com and just click the link to create
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yourself an account, it's just like every else, you just need to use your name, your password
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that you're going to pick and any of this.
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When I go into, I log into my JaiKu account and I click settings, there is an option there
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which says web feeds and you can click on manage your web feeds.
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Now what you can do is says add more, you can add a blog, add photos, add bookmarks, add
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another atom or RSS feed.
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The simplest thing is if you know your RSS feed, you just click on that link.
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You can add a blog, like if it knows about WordPress or blogger or something, you can use
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that link, but those all have RSS feeds anyway, so I'm just going to use that.
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So I go ahead and I click on add another RSS feeds and it's saying, you know, add your
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present stream, blah, blah, blah, basically it's adding for an RSS street.
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I'm going to go back and grab my pounce updates again, copy that URL and paste it into
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the page address and then I click find feeds, it looks at it, thanks for a bit and JaiKu
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placed a little note on the screen and says it may take a little while to find or fetch
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this feed.
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Please be patient.
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So it thinks and it thinks and it thinks some more and it says, whoa, who turned up
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the heat?
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Servers are running a bit hot right now, please try again in a couple of minutes.
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Yeah, how web 2.0 is that, huh?
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So it's not just Twitter that's having problems all the time too.
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But as the more I think about it actually, it probably makes more sense for JaiKu to
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subscribe to my Twitter, because if I'm going to be using Twitter feed to stuff everything
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into that, then I don't want to have to re-subscribe to all those things again with JaiKu
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when all I need to do is really subscribe to Twitter.
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So if you visualize this, Twitter itself via Twitter feed is like this big funnel and
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everything that I can subscribe to, I'm going to subscribe to in Twitter and then JaiKu
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is going to be underneath that funnel picking up whatever comes out of Twitter.
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Does that make sense?
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That does make sense.
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Barely.
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Just barely though.
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Barely.
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Just barely makes sense.
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So the question is, what is my RSS feed for Twitter?
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Well, that's pretty easy.
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If I log into my Twitter account, I just go there, and just like in JaiKu, it scroll down
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to the bottom of the page, and there's a link right there that says RSS, and I'm just
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going to right click on that, copy that link location, and then go back to JaiKu and paste
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in the RSS feed.
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I'm clicking on find feeds, and then I'm going to wait, and assuming that the JaiKu servers
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aren't having a meltdown right now, then you know, I'm going to get some good stuff.
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And if they are, well, so much for that idea.
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So what we've managed to do is we've created an open, an open ID.
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We took our Pounce notifications and a blog, and we were able to use Twitter feed to put
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them into our Twitter feed for lack of a better term.
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And we then in turn took our Twitter feed and stuff that into our JaiKu feeds.
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So in the end, if anybody wants to follow you, basically, regardless of whether they're
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following you on Pounce or Twitter or on JaiKu, then they're all going to get the same
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stuff.
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And we can take this one step further as Harlem, you and I, we both have Facebook accounts,
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right?
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Right.
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Although I don't use mine for much anymore.
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Me either.
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Yeah.
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I was just reading an article in the register this week, which is basically saying that people
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are getting bored with social networking.
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Yeah.
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I read that too.
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Thirty something drop in subscribership or traffic and it's happening for everybody.
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Yep.
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And it happens.
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Well, if you want to sync your Twitter stuff, then there's a good little application I've
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found on Facebook.
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It's called Twitter sync.
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If you just look for that under edit or add applications, like Twitter feed, it will ask
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for your Twitter name and password.
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And the reason, well, basically what they need that for is because they're pulling and
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pushing info into and out of your Facebook account.
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So I used a couple of other Twitter apps.
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This is the best one that I've found.
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And the reason I like this one is it goes in both directions.
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So I can either update my status in Facebook or I can make a post in Twitter and it goes
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both directions.
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So that's pretty cool.
|
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It synchronizes your status, basically.
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So if I do a Twitter, it shows up in Facebook and if I update my Facebook status, it shows
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up as what I'm doing in Twitter.
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|
Sweet.
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With that, I think we've pretty much come full circle, don't you think, Alan?
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I think so too.
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Although you're going to have to play around with this for a little bit because it's, you
|
|
can get really caught up in the details.
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How is my height to feed, going to get my Twitter feed and what about my pounce?
|
|
And so sit down with a pen and a piece of paper and diagram this all out so you don't
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get confused.
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|
Absolutely.
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And I will post a link in the show notes also.
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|
You can see where I entitled a blog post a while ago.
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It was titled, oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice social networking.
|
|
And I actually made a little mind map which includes my Twitter feed, my blog, my Google
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Reader shared items, my Facebook status updates, my delicious bookmarks, my jikos and my
|
|
pounces and I put all those things together.
|
|
And you can add anything else, like if you have an RSS feed for your Flickr album when
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|
you post new Flickr updates, you can post that there.
|
|
You can do all sorts of things and it's really kind of cool.
|
|
If you choose to do so, you can experiment with a lot of other really neat RSS and Web
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|
2 tools out there.
|
|
Yahoo Pipes, for instance, is a really great, easy and intuitive, powerful way to manage
|
|
multiple RSS feeds.
|
|
So you can use that to aggregate things and you can improve, include program logic right
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in just with a drag and drop interface.
|
|
There's so many cool neat things out there that you can fiddle with.
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|
We can't even begin to cover them all.
|
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But at least today we've exposed you to Open ID, Twitter, Jiku, Pounce, Twitter feeds,
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RSS.
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I don't know about you, man, but I think my brain is full.
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How are you feeling?
|
|
Oh, man.
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I, again, I have to figure this all out, but at least I got it up and running and I can
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play around with it.
|
|
I can add stuff to my Twitter feed.
|
|
Now this is also, I just wanted to ask you a question.
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This is only if you want to get everything on Twitter.
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|
Is that correct?
|
|
This doesn't work the other way around.
|
|
Twitter?
|
|
Well, if you want to put like your Twitter somewhere else?
|
|
Yeah, like if you want to Twitter into Pounce, for instance.
|
|
No, I don't think Pounce has any way to put anything into it.
|
|
Unless things have changed recently.
|
|
Let me double-check here.
|
|
Well, you probably have to hack their API for that.
|
|
Yeah, when I did this, go ahead.
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Sorry, when I did this first, this was several months ago.
|
|
Pounce did not have any way to import.
|
|
It did not have a way to import RSS feeds.
|
|
And that's why the tutorial that I originally followed started with Pounce.
|
|
So basically, all of your Pounce's Twitters, et cetera, would originate from Pounce.
|
|
And that was okay, but after a while, I just, I got kind of tired of the Pounce interface
|
|
and I just found Twitters to be easier, more friendly, I don't know why, but I stuck
|
|
with Twitter.
|
|
Now on Pounce, you do have the option of putting your profiles on your home page on the
|
|
right sidebar.
|
|
And so you put your Facebook profile, your Twitter profile, even your Skype name and
|
|
your blog on the right sidebar.
|
|
So, you know, yeah, there's a lot, they, they, yeah, Pounce is aware of like, I don't
|
|
know, 20 or so, maybe more different social networks, and they just have all kinds.
|
|
But what all that does is that provides you a link.
|
|
It doesn't actually, it doesn't, you know, add content from those websites.
|
|
Right, exactly.
|
|
But it does, you know, it, it takes away, it gives away for you to, you know, give
|
|
people another way to contact you.
|
|
So, it shows him, but it doesn't actually aggregate all the information that we did.
|
|
So, yep, good example now.
|
|
So with that, I think we're going to wrap this up.
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Just a reminder that every week, Harlem and I, we do the Fresh Ubuntu podcast, Ubuntu
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|
Linux, and Ubuntu Linux centric podcast, where we cover all things Ubuntu and anything,
|
|
you know, that's between five or six degrees of separation away from Ubuntu or John
|
|
O'Bacon, as the case may be.
|
|
That's right.
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If you want to follow me on Twitter, I can be found at Twitter.com slash Nikolitis.
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And my blog is at blog.nicolitis.com.
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|
And if you have a hard time spelling either of those, I don't blame you for a minute.
|
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You can just go to pn72.com and you will find me there.
|
|
Harlem, what about you?
|
|
And you can find me on my Twitter account at Twitter.com slash Harlem, H-A-R-L-E-M.
|
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Also, I have a, again, Fresh Ubuntu.org, which is our main website for the podcast and
|
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feel free to listen in every now and again, if you wish.
|
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And if you are in Ubuntu, Efficient Auto, or whatever, you can subscribe to the podcast
|
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at feeds.feedburner.com slash Fresh Ubuntu, and that's it.
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Until next time, have a great day and remember to hack your world.
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That's right.
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Bye-bye.
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