I noted a tweet from Blaise (I know a guy named Blaise, how cool is that?) and he implored the interet to create one social networking site to rule them all. It’s true – it’s out of control. I only use a few of the ones out there and I pretty much ignore them becaues it’s tedious and I’m fairly certain no one gives a rip and will even less if they’re on all of them and then see the same info a ton of times.
So. I suggested that Blaise embrace the fact that Twitter can cross post to Facebook and MySpace. There are applications such as Monitor on the Mac and TweetDeck on multiple platforms that kind of aggregate these things and make them more accessible but there’s still the matter of posting to the individual sites.
There’s also the site I’ve found recently called Hi, I’m. http://hi.im/ It pulls all of your social networking into one central place – they describe it as your name tag on the internet. I haven’t used it myself yet but I do believe it looks promising.
That’s all I have for now, but in this world of excessive diversity splintering one’s single (an assumption) personality across so many sites, integration could be a welcome change.
I’m using ping.fm. The site doesn’t work properly in Safari, though, so use Camino or Firefox. Luckily, their AIM / Google Talk / SMS support makes it so that I don’t ever have to actually visit the site.
But yeah, it sends short status messages (and longer ones, apparently) to multiple sites. I’ve got it posting to Facebook and a WordPress blog, but it also supports Twitter – and a bunch of other sites.