My Digital Life

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki I just signed up to Posterous.  It’s a pretty good idea, the site allows you to email in text, documents, music, images or video which it then posts up onto a blog.  What’s more it can then cross post the new blog onto twitter, flickr, wordpress etc.

It seems to work really well.  You can mail from a number of different email accounts or phones and setup personalised domains or sub-domains. 

The one little niggle I noticed - well its really something to add to a wish list - is that there’s no way of automatically filtering out email signatures.  All my mail accounts have them, and my work account also adds the usual company disclaimer after it leaves my computer or iPhone.  It’d be really great if Posterous was able to filter these out so that every post didn’t have my phone number and company address appended to it.

Still, a great idea I reckon!

Yesterday a friend pointed me at blippr.com, a new (I assume!) site that seems to merge twitter like short comments with reviews of books, music, movies and games.

As a format it works really well, you just search for whatever movie you want to see reviews for and browse through the results.  Overall ratings are also aggregated  to provide an overall score. 

For things like movies and games I find a consensus of opinion much more useful than an in depth review followed by one persons opinion.   As Blipper can also import contacts and friends from Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook you should also be able to see what you buddies are think of the same movie, and what other things they are enjoying.

Reviews are short <160 character twitter style comments, and use a simple ‘love it’ to ‘hate it’ rating.  I’m not sure if there’s a mobile interface or iPhone app but it would seem like a great addition to catch people views right as they leave the cinema (for example).

The only slight flaw I found was that if you miss spell your email address when signing in the site creates a fresh account for you… so I now have a dummy account there!

Still, I like it :)

From what I’ve read about Fav.or.it (if anyone has an invitation let me know!) you can write comments within the fav.or.it platform and they are written back to the blog itself. 

One of the things I like about Friendfeed is the commenting, but quite a lot of feedback and comment on Friendfeed will never be visible against the original media.  It would be good if Friendfeed did the same as Fav.or.it and wrote comments back to the source and attributed those comments to me.  Perhaps using a some sort of FF prefix - "Tom commented via Friendfeed:….".

This would be good for the end users as their comments would be more visible and attributed to them, and probably quite good for Friendfeed as comments on blogs, flickr etc. would spread the FF word. 

Shel Israel posted up a pretty good interview with Michael Dell about Social Media in Dell.  Dell seem to do a really good job at this, the various blogs and sites they use to connect to customers work well.  They’re certainly far ahead of most hardware vendors I’ve spoken to recently.  It’s good to see another big corporate really embracing the new way of doing things.