Glue

This morning, I sat down at the computer and fired up pandora.com and started listening to songs that it associates with other songs I’ve expressed interest in. I’ve started flagging the songs that I like there. It struck me that it would be nice if that information could be exported to last.fm. A quick search revealed PandoraFM. So, if you check what I’ve been listening to on my last.fm profile.

Of course this is available as an RSS feed, so I could pipe it into various sites like Twitter, Jaiku, Spock, Plaxo Pulse, etc. Yet there are so many items, I worry about it being overwhelming.

Nonetheless, it got me to think about all the different feeds I generate and how they interrelate. So, I started mapping out various feeds I produce.

Orient Lodge, Flickr, Facebook Statuses, Last.fm,
Bloghud, Blip.TV, Twitter,
Jaiku, de.icio.us, StumbleUpon, ma.gnolia.

As noted before, they are interrelated. My Orient Lodge feed updates my Twitter Feed. It, together with my Twitter feed updates my Jaiku feed. Facebook updates a bunch of feeds as well. One of these days I, or someone smarter than I, will come up with smart tools for pulling all these feeds together.

To further complicate things, I bothers me that if I find a good site, I may want to bookmark it on several social bookmarking sites. With that, I found a blog post that talks about how to set things up so when you tag a page in del.icio.us, it also tags it in StumbleUpon. First test are very positive. Now if only we could add in ma.gnolia as well.

Slowly more of these things will get connected and linked together. Until that time, I’ll play with different types of glue to tie together all of my digital social media.