The other day I read that a bunch of my friends were moving from Twitter to Jaiku. I set up my Jaiku page and subscribed to the RSS feed of my Twitter page. I tried sending an SMS, but it never got through. I checked around. I then tried snowballing my contacts, and the only person I found there was Scoble, and he didn’t have any contacts there. So, I’m not currently using Jaiku in any significant manner.

However, it does have the nice feature of bringing in a bunch of different feeds, so I added Orient Lodge, Blip.TV, Flickr. Later, I read about someone trying to tie their Facebook status to their Twitter page, and I poked around a little bit on this. If you go to your Facebook status page, and change profile.php? to minified.php?status& you will get the minified page that has your statuses. From that page you get the RSS feed for your statuses, which you can subscribe to with Jaiku (or any other feedreader).

The next question became, could I subscribe to any of these via Twitter? One person recommended TwitterFeed. This raised a new issue. To sign into TwitterFeed, you need to use OpenID. LiveJournal uses OpenID, and I could have used that. However, TwitterFeed also pointed me to idproxy.net. idproxy.net provides a service where you can use your Yahoo! id as an OpenID. In addition, they have details on how to set up your own site for OpenID, using idproxy as the server. I’ve added that to Orient Lodge, so I can now log into sites using OpenID using Orient Lodge and Yahoo’s authentication.

I logged into LiveJournal, and that worked. I then started to set up ClaimID. I didn’t see ClaimID doing a lot for me, so I’ve left it with only a little information.

Back to TwitterFeed, I added Orient Lodge to my Twitter feed, and every time I add a blog entry on Orient Lodge, it is now showing up nicely on Twitter. I then tried to add the Facebook feed, but that isn’t showing up properly.

As a little additional background, I have Blip.TV set up so I can cross-posted the thumbnails of my videos to Flickr. I couldn’t get Blip.TV to cross-post to Orient Lodge. I think I had it working once on an older version of Drupal, but I can manage to get it to work with the latest version of Drupal. I’ve also gotten Flickr to properly cross-post to Orient-Lodge and I don’t want to mess with my cross-posting options at Blip.TV, for fear of breaking the Flickr cross-posting. I know that I could read the Blip.TV posts and Flickr posts as RSS feeds in Orient Lodge, but I don’t really have a need for that right now. However, I do have Facebook subscribed to my blog posts on Orient Lodge to show up there as Notes and I have subscribed to my Twitter Status on Orient Lodge.

So, how does all of this fit together? Right now, I only load videos to Blip.TV via an upload from my PC. My cellphone doesn’t shoot video, so I don’t send videos by email right now. When I upload a video, I typically cross-post it automatically to Flickr. I usually then do a manual cross post to Orient Lodge, which automatically shows up on Facebook, Twitter and Jaiku.

When I upload pictures, I sometimes will cross post the best of the batch to Orient-Lodge, which will also then cross post to Facebook, Twitter and Jaiku. Sometimes I send pictures from my cellphone, but the cellphone takes pretty low quality pictures, so I don’t send many that way. In the past, I’ve been able to send the pictures to both Facebook and to Flickr, and have Flickr automatically cross post to Orient Lodge, but I haven’t been doing that much recently since it has seemed unreliable.

Sometimes I update my status via an SMS message. I typically send it in the format, “I AM …” so I can send it to both Twitter and Facebook at the same time. Both of which end up showing up on Jaiku, and the Twitter one shows up in my sidebar on Orient Lodge.

Right now, when posts go up on Orient Lodge, they show up on Jaiku twice, once directly and once via Jaiku’s subscription to Twitter, which includes Twitter’s subscription to Orient Lodge.

With all of this in place, I can start working on tying all of this together with Second Life. Over on Second Life, I have three heads up displays (hud) for posting to blogs outside of Second Life. One is BlogHud. BlogHud currently cross-posts to my WordPress blog (which I use mostly just for testing). I used to have it post to my Blogspot blog, also used mostly for testing, but when Google changed the way blogger worked, the BlogHud/Blogger interface stopped working for me. But, I digress.

I’ve now subscribed to my Wordpress feed on Jaiku, so blog status messages from Second Life, via BlogHud should start showing up in Jaiku. I also use a hud in Second Life that directly connects to Twitter. The third hud that I use on Second Life, updates my SL Profiles page, but this site doesn’t have RSS feeds, so the messages end there.

SLProfiles also has its own photo gallery where you can send snapshots from Second Life. Like their blog, it doesn’t have any interconnectivity. However, Snapzilla, aka slpics on SLUniverse, can send pictures to Flickr, which you will remember from the discussion above gets picked up by Jaiku.

So, I’ve sent out some messages from Second Life and we’ll see how they find their way through this “maze of twisty little passages, all alike”.