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[s243a]

mahesh2k, on Aug 3 2009, 11:13 AM, said:

Now coming back to topic of social network, is it possible to send forum updates to twitter/identi.ca. especially is it possible to send forum updates to post as status message to identi.ca ? this way we can drive lot of traffic on forums in my opinion. not too much but atleast 20-30 will even worth it if the status of forum are posted to twitter/identica. I'm not sure how those services will handle forums once they're having large userbase. but atleast for new forums it can be a source of traffic. Any ideas how it can be done ?

Lots of forums have rss feeds for such things as notices, new topics, new posts, you could even I presume create rss feeds for forum status updates/moods. If the form doesn't have feeds you can create feeds by parsing pages with yahoo pipes. I haven't used identity.ca but the following service pingvine

http://www.tothepc.com/archives/publish-an...fm-or-identica/

claims to be able to publish rss feeds to (Twitter or Ping.fm or Identi.ca accounts). I know twitterfeed can publish rss both to ping.fm and twitter (not sure if it can post to identity.ca). From ping.fm you can forward your status update to identity.ca. I'm not sure if identity.ca allows you to import feeds from twitter. Hellowtxt can also publish to indentity.ca since idenity.ca is a laconi micro blog. I'm not sure which service will support multiple laconi micro blogs first but if you need to publish to multiple laconi mircroblogs, I recomened trying out both pingfm and hellotxt before you create multiple accounts of either. There are so many possibilities and all you have to do is be able to visualize the path of information flow. Try to not create any loops in your information flow.

As for dealing with high trafic forums, yahoo pipes, lets you choose how many items, go to your feed. So you, could limit your feed to say, the posts which you rank as the top 50. You could establish some ranking system,based on: say google rank, how recent the post is, who posted it,...etc. Then sort the feed items by rank and take the top 50. Twitterfeed lets you control how frequently feeds are updated. Therefore, set twitter feed to post at some regular time interval and figure out how many posts you want in that time interval and use yahoo pipes to limit the number of feed items to that number.

[s243a]

I forgot to add, you can also get RSS feeds from some email services. I know both google, and yahoo support rss feeds. I believe googles service is better because it uses both password verification and feed encryption. I think yahoo only uses pasword verification. This is handing because sometimes the only way some forms give updates is though email. Gmail, lets you sort your email, into categories, and you can get a seperate feed for each catagory. This is very handy if you are on a lot of mailing lists.

[mahesh2k]

@s243a

Thanks for the twitter-feed suggestion. I just hooked my entire forum updates to twitterfeed. Now the forum account on twitter gets updates every time someone posts forum posts or even creates new topic. Limiting it for particular time interval is also a good option, as it'll not create problems to service provider(twitter in this case).

I couldn't find anything alternative like twitterfeed for laconi.ca based software though. I need to find such service for identi.ca, i tried to go through ping.fm but no success. Need to find dedicated software like twitterfeed for identi.ca. So still looking for it.

Yahoo pipes idea sounds nice. and it's perfect to sort feeds and then publish it. i'll try it when my forum gets enough traffic that is beyond twitter updates reach.

[kleong]

Social networking site is touted as the tools for people to remain in contact with friends. I dont think that is the case. As you would have join at least one by now, you will realise how time-consuming it is. Instead of catching up with friends over the free time that we have, we spend it online playing with such websites. That will further "deplete" the free time that we have to meet friends. So tell me, is it a social or anti social networking site afterall?

As for cheating, it goes everywhere, not only with such websites.

[s243a]

mahesh2k, on Aug 4 2009, 04:03 AM, said:

@s243a
I couldn't find anything alternative like twitterfeed for laconi.ca based software though. I need to find such service for identi.ca, i tried to go through ping.fm but no success. Need to find dedicated software like twitterfeed for identi.ca. So still looking for it.

That's weird because I have ping.fm, posting updates to shoutem for me and shoutem is also a laconi.ca based microblog. How did you set it up? Also if you really can't get it to work (note ping.fm has a support form) you could consider trying hellotxt.

[Echo_of_thunder]

Well networking like this I feel is a great thing. we have twitter, facebook along with all the others. I feel they are good due to you can keep up with everyone that you know and your familly and such. But I have also noticed with say Twitter, you do get a lot of people just wanting to add you that are well "Bots" and no telling if they are real or just trying to get any info they can get. So social networking can be good yet bad. I guess it is all how you wish to use it.

[aloKNsh]

its good coz for those who livin far away its the best way to be in contact

[iGuest]

clubing newsSocial Networking Websites Are Good Or Not?

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