I am way to busy during the day to update my facebook, tumblr, twitter, myspace, blog, read 100 + RSS feeds, and vicariously attend TED, Webstock, Lift or any other interesting design gatherings I cannot get to physically...
It is almost a full time gig just keeping up with the latest Web 2.0 social networks - not to mention the time investment required to maintain a presence, and develop meaningful connections etc. And I really should not spend my spare time staring at a screen - be it large or small...
Today I discovered pixelpipe - which is a really neat little web application which allows users to "pipe" content through to multiple social networks. It can even pass content through to an FTP server or email. Posts can be emailed to pixelpipes, there is an iphone app, and web browser plugins, an extension for picasa for those who want to use it but not store their photos with google.
The web interface is rather simple, but functional.
Files are not passed to the destination servers for all pipes, for example the drupal pipe creates entries with links back to images stored on the pixelpipes server. A bit of a bother if like me you are worried about where all of your data is, and maintaining it. But then I discovered there is an FTP pipe which looks very handy.
But it will not connect to blackboard - but then blackboard does suck when it comes to all things web 2.0ish. One reason why blackboard sucks - no human readable URLs - in fact a college of mine uses the tinyURL service to make simple URLs to sections of his class blackboard sites!
The other pipes web application is yahoo pipes, which is a very funky way of aggregating, remixing, mashing up web content.
Now do I have the time to setup my the infrastructure to support a web life?