Sunday, 31 May 2009

Social Networking Integration - Update

The latest Yoono Firefox extension update now add Status sync across multiple activated Social Network accounts. Hopefully, we'll see Yoono add blogging support soon though Scribefire will be a tough act to follow.

Meanwhile, Flock developers are still blaming MySpace for their user account login problems. Hmm....

Thursday, 28 May 2009

Social Networking Integration

...or lack thereof.

Spent the last week trying out a couple of different way to integrate my social network accounts; Flock 2.5, Yoono (Firefox extension). No dice.

The problem seems to stem from the fact that each has a preferred service - Yoono has it's own but does at least sync to both Facebook and Twitter status updates, while Flock only syncs to Facebook. One thing I have noticed is that nothing plays nice with MySpace, apparently this is something to do with the MySpace people futzing with their API every five minutes and breaking backward compatibility. So much for integration.

What we should have been seeing by now is a cross platform app, or browser plugin that sends a status update to all activated accounts. Flock and Yoono are close, but without the cigar. Rather disappointing given how long social networking has been around.