How to Follow Twitter Users in Statusnet or Identi.ca

Statusnet is a great place to follow people from different social networks. I posted how to do it for Google Buzz, Posterous, and Tumblr. But for those who want to follow Twitter users, below is the easiest way I know how

Motorola goes Statusnet!

Just received news that Motorola, Inc. will be using Statusnet as their way of communicating internally. According to the press release, it all started as an experiment as to whether Statusnet would be good enough as a way to communicate between different business units.

However, something else happened!

Rami Levy, Motorola's team leader of Open Source Technologies, says in the case study, "One unexpected benefit [of using StatusNet] is a reduction in company email. We initially just wanted to increase social communication and such in the company. As the value became obvious and usage grew, we decided to leverage this to reduce corporate email volume.”

Lesser email blasts!

Although I would think that emails still revolve around Motorola, with Motmot (yep, that's what they called their Statusnet over there) the heads would just need to send out a dent (equivalent to a "tweet" to you Tweeter users out there) to necessary parties and they should be able to receive and reply to the message either through the web, their Statusnet Desktop client, or probably through their mobile (since they ARE a mobile phone company).

I hope more companies would try out Statusnet because of this.

Would you like to try a free and personal Statusnet account? Go here! And then subscribe to my Statusnet at http://robsanchez.status.net.

How to subscribe to Google Buzz, Posterous, and Tumbr using Statusnet

Thanks to OStatus, Statusnet / Identica has become more than just a microblogging platform. It's a way to follow other social networks right in the comfort of your Stautsnet / Identica site.


As of the moment, Statusnet 0.9.2 can only follow these sites. Take it from me when I say that the Livejournal following does not work at all, but I read they're working on it.

If you want to follow people in Tumblr, Posterous, or Google Buzz, then follow the instructions below:

1. Open the Posterous/Tumblr/Google Buzz Profile site you want to follow
2. Copy the URL
3. Open your Statusnet or Identi.ca page
4. Go to Subscriptions
5. Click on Remote
6. Paste the URL you copied
7. Click on "Continue"
8. Click on "Confirm"

Easy as that and you'll be seeing their posts soon! However, only Google Buzz posts with notes before the Google Reader shares and direct inputs will appear.

Google Reader Shares to Status.net

If you have a Status.net account (mine is http://robsanchez.status.net) and you want to share your Google Reader stuff over there without using Ping.fm then follow the instructions below:

1. Log-in to your Google Reader Account
2. Click on Settings > Reader Settings > Send To
3. Click on Create a custom link
4. Input the following in the fields (replace yourstatusnet with your status.net's URL)

Name: yourstatusnet
URL: http://yourstatusnet.status.net/?action=newnotice&status_textarea=${title} ${short-url}
Icon URL: http://status.net/favicon.ico

Code was inspired by Thanos Lefteris' Google Reader to Identi.ca code
More on Statusnet

Ping.fm supports RSS! The end for Notify.me and Tweeterfeed?

Image via CrunchBase

Ping.fm has just enabled RSS Support!

Over the weekend, we released a feature in Ping.fm that will allow you to post an RSS feed to all your social networks. All you simply need to do is choose the RSS selection under Services / Tools (right there in the Dashboard), and then enter in your RSS feed to the blog of your choice.

I used to have a one click process from my blog to Notify.me then to Ping.fm, but with this feature, it takes out the middle man entirely. Does this mean that services like Notify.me and Twitterfeed is dead? Not necessarily.

Notify.me does more than just send my RSS to Ping.fm as it also serves as my IM notification when someone retweets/replies to me on any of the social networks I'm in. Tweeterfeed allows users to have a real-time stat on hand to see how well their tweets have sent others to their sites. Until Seesmic/Ping.fm does these, the two services will be safe.

Google Buzz and Dunbar's Number

Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr

With both Robert Scoble and Jason Calcanis (and Steve Rubel thinking of) stopping their Tweets from entering Google Buzz, they have joined the movement of lessening the noise on the said social network.

A much more drastic (and I think even better) Google Buzz noise effect was on Damond Nollan when he decided to unfollow a ton of people on both his Twitter and Google Reader.

...I made the decision to unfollow around 3,400 accounts on Twitter and another couple hundred in Google Reader. 

He did this on order to have deeper engagement, more value, and less noise when it comes to social media. I'm liking his idea a LOT.

All these actions remind me of the theory of Dunbar's Number which states that the number of social interaction is limited to 150 only because:

"this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size ... the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained."

Whatever the "right" number would be, I have no clue, but reducing the massive number of people you follow to what you can handle is essential in making your social network really work for you.

I'll be posting soon on how I will do this on ALL of my social networks. There might even be some social sites that I will totally leave in order to put some sort of order in all of this noise and chaos.

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Software I use for posterous

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Although I may have registered for posterous a long time ago, it wasn't until I read Steve Rubel's "gutsy" decision about diving into lifestreaming rather than blogging made me realize that blogging may need another shot in the arm to make it fresh and exciting again. I won't be leaving my blogs or other social networking services anytime soon, but I'll be including my posterous lifestream into the mix to make my online presence even more wholeistic than readers just seeing me as a game/tech blogger.

Here's my way of posting on posterous (and in the process post everywhere else):