tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post3518974219236160648..comments2024-02-08T11:00:53.069-06:00Comments on Gordon's Tech: Twitter to WordPress via ifttt - limitationsJGFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post-57399152903179967972012-02-20T12:47:38.960-06:002012-02-20T12:47:38.960-06:00Since posting this I've learned that Pinboard ...Since posting this I've learned that Pinboard is a very good way to archive tweets.JGFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post-23813358277387171482011-12-18T08:38:51.182-06:002011-12-18T08:38:51.182-06:00Google is still an essential provider for some ser...Google is still an essential provider for some services I rely on every day – in my case on a paid basis although USD 50/year for a Google Apps account is too cheap to expect much …<br /><br />- Google Mail (still great)<br /><br />- Google Contacts (improving, no usable direct sync with iOS devices, usable sync with Macs only via third-party tools)<br /><br />- Google Calendar (quite OK, sync with iOS devices works with one notable exception, usable sync with Macs works via third-party tools – I switched from iCal/BusySync to BusyCal. The notable exception are 'private' time only calendars which cannot be synced via CalDAV to iOS devices. ActiveSync would probably support such calendars but there is still the color issue)<br /><br />- Google Reader (mostly used with Reeder on iOS, a fantastic piece of Swiss software except for the lacking offline support)<br /><br />- Google Chrome (replacing Firefox although some Firefox extensions have not fully made it to Chrome yet)<br /><br />I use other services such as Google Docs and Google+ but they are not that important. I still use Google Search by default, it has remained the gold standard, in particular for searches outside the English speaking web.<br /><br />Finding alternatives has proved to be challenging. Google's low/zero pricing, at least in direct terms, makes it very difficult for any potential competitors.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07281335225031210525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post-1478253128679275392011-12-14T08:11:20.719-06:002011-12-14T08:11:20.719-06:00Twitter feels like a vast room full of geeks talki...Twitter feels like a vast room full of geeks talking into their mobiles -- and there's nobody at the other end of the line.<br /><br />Except, I suppose, for the celebrity tweets. Other than celebrity broadcasting, and sharing via SMS, I don't understand Twitter's use case.<br /><br />Any day now I expect an expose to be written; it will turn out there are only 300 real people on twitter.<br /><br />I used Reader Shares as a way to curate knowledge and observations. I think you had the same use case. A curation item had a structure including title, link, excerpt and annotation and, of course, a feed. Optionally, metadata like tags.<br /><br />I don't know of anything else like that in 2011. The closest is G+ sharing, but today G+ is a creepy echo of Reader shares.<br /><br />Not only do we lack a robust repository, we lack the ecosystem that grew up around Reader Shares. For example - iOS Reeder.app's share services.<br /><br />So, how are you feeling about Google these days?John Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04498750165598537302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post-65408995262589204872011-12-14T06:26:33.119-06:002011-12-14T06:26:33.119-06:00I have just cancelled my RSS subscription to @jgor...I have just cancelled my RSS subscription to @jgordonshare, I never clicked a single link since I never knew enough about the content behind the link.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07281335225031210525noreply@blogger.com