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Profilefly - another meta-identity search services like Wink, Streakr and others.

Spock - another expert locator like Wink…not sure if it collates all your identities into one stream. [via TC]

Loopster - Like the meta-identity networks above, but also seems to collate all your friends from your various networks [via TC]

AttenTV - share or simply watch a person’s or groups clickstream, that’s one for the attention crowd…of course it’s all neatly served as a social network.
Also see slifeshare and APML.

5min - Q&A, How-To’s are getting video, also see Vlip (video Q&A), CrowdRules, (video Q&A)VideoJug (video How-To), Jabbits (video Q&A), Instructables (How-To Social network), CircleUp (group threaded Q&A), SuTree (instructional video aggregator), Tipstr (social network for tips). Let’s not forget my favourite Q&A services, Yedda, FAQQLY and Otavo…don’t forget the 2 lists.

Now that FeedBlitz enables blog publishers to offer their subscribers updates to their latest posts by Twitter, mashable alludes to Feedburner possibly being next.

The not so easy approach is having to create a Twitter account for your blog feed using rss2feed or twitterfeed and then promote this on your blog sidebar, perhaps with a subscription form, I’d like to see this.

But what this post is really about is the other way around, how can I splice my Twitter feed into Feedburner?

Will Feedburner consider splicing in Twitter, just as it allows flickr, and del.icio.us, I think it is inevitable.

Some will hate this, as all they want is to see the RSS version of blog posts, that’s why the subscribed to the feed, they don’t want to see flickr photo’s, bookmarks, and possibly Twitter updates, leave the lifestream to iStalkr and others.

I did notice that Luis Suarez is using some sort of plug-in, called Twitter Tools, this seems to do lots of things, pity my blog is hosted.

Possibilities

Splice in my Twitter account.

Splice in a new Twitter account that is used for blog announcements and updates.

This last one is what I’m after, I’ve suggested it in the past, see my post What do you get when you cross Feedburner with publi.sh?.

Here I suggested Feedburner offering to splice in an edge feed like publi.sh, or use an alert type blog like Loopnote.

NOTE: a blogger could also promote just the Loopnote feed on their blog which would be just the announcement spliced feed part of the Feedburner feed, this allows subscribers to get just the announcement content part of the feed by SMS and the rest.

Anyway what I was after and still am is an announcement feed spliced into my Feedburner feed, and the obvious choice seems like Twitter, even though Loopnote would be just as good as you can post by SMS, IM or email, Twitter just seems the obvious choice.

Just to be clear, just like my spliced in del.icio.us links, my blog annoucements from my potential spliced in Twitter feed would not appear in my HTML blog content, only in the RSS content version of my blog.

But I would want my announcements to be published in the feed as it happens, not once daily, as announcements are more likely to be time pertinent.

What do you think?

[ADDED 10/07/2007: xFruits RSS to blog]

I wrote a post on the fabulous FeedBlitz a little while ago, FeedBlitz enables a publisher to offer and manage email subscriptions of their blog feed.
Even if a blog publisher doesn’t offer FeedBlitz subscriptions, a person can join FeedBlitz and subscribe to feeds, getting feed content delivered as email.

So FeedBlitz is an alternative to subscribing to feeds in an RSS Reader, instead you can read feeds in your email client, well now FeedBlitz isn’t just about email, you can receive blog feed updates a more trendy way…

FeedBlitz now enable you to receive updates of your favourite blog feeds via Twitter (provided the publisher is a premium user), as mashable says, this kind of makes Twitter an RSS Reader, just like your email client can be used as an RSS Reader.

Anyway it seems when you subscribe to a feed you can subscribe using your Twitter username instead of your email.

Questions

Does the blog owner already need a Twitter version of their blog via one of the RSS hack Twitter services?

At the moment you can create a Twitter account for your blog feed, just enter your blog feed into rss2twitter or twitterfeed, and your latest blog posts will be available in Twitter.
Twitter users could add the Twitter version of your blog as a friend and get your latest blog posts delivered by SMS, IM, email or the Twitter webpage…you can even grab the RSS feed of a Twitter user, the difference here is that you would get just a title and link update instead of a full-text update like the native blog feed would offer.

In this model, subscribers have to rely on the blog owner making a Twitter version of their blog feed.

Anyway, does a publisher using FeedBlitz automatically create a new account in Twitter for their blog feed?

If not, does this mean you are adding a blog feed (via FeedBlitz) as a Twitter friend even if that blog feed is not registered with Twitter? If it is not registered then it could not be a Twitter friend…

This would mean this blog feed would not appear in your Twitter timeline, yet you are getting Twitter updates from this blog feed…am I missing something?

When I went over to the A VC blog I subscribed by entering my email in the FeedBlitz widget, it then asked if I want delivery by email or Twitter.
Once I filled in my Twitter details I clicked to my FeedBlitz account, only thing is I couldn’t see which of my subscriptions were delivered by Twitter and which were delivered by email…this is because I didn’t yet update my profile with my Twitter details.

Like all my other subscriptions I can filter out/in posts that are authored tagged, and with an advanced subscription you can even choose some filtered posts to bypass Twitter and go to email.

Then I went to my Twitter account, and didn’t notice the “A VC” blog as a friend, all I can gather is that I will get updates from the A VC blog in my timeline even though it is not added as a friend.

What will I do?

I only have a free feedBlitz publisher account, therefore I won’t be offering Twitter delivery.

But I don’t have to use FeedBlitz, as mentioned before I can use rss2twitter or twitterfeed to create a new Twitter account for my blog feed.

Then somehow I could offer a widget on my blog to sign up to my Twitter blog feed, I’d probably want to burn it first.

Related:
Get blog updates on your mobile phone (IM, email, SMS, audio, web)

The other day I wrote about Twitterverse, basically a word burst or tag cloud type view of Twitter, enabling a person to get an idea on what topic, or words rather, are used a lot on Twitter, makes for interesting analysis. Twitterverse also allows you to search the archives, starting April onwards.

I mentioned I’d like to track keywords (even limited to people/friends) via SMS or RSS feed, and this is something Emily from TwitterVerse has on the cards.

Now that we have Twitter keyword clouds and Twitter search, what’s next Twitter Memetracker, I’m sure Matthew Chen of megite will be into this, even for introducing more people to megite, as anything Twitter related lately will get you page visits.

On an earlier post I pointed to TwitterSearch, but again I’d like to generate a feed for each search, so I can follow tweets that contain a certain keyword.
This same post links to a TwitterSearch word burst analysis.

Twitterzone is similar to Twitterverse, with a few more features, besides a Twitter word burst cloud it also has most active Twitters, most active non-human Twitters (auto-bots, RSS feeds), and most popular links in Tweets.
The timeframes for these choices are 1 hour, day, week, month, whereas Twitterverse is just 24 hours (yesterday or today), but Twitterverse has archived search anyway…I guess they could snap shot each daily word burst cloud and archive them. [UPDATED to 1, 5, and 10 hours.]
NOTE: when I click on a word in the cloud nothing happens, I expect to see all posts containing the word within a specified time period. UPDATE: the search is now working.

I mentioned Zoomcloud on a tweet about a week ago, as a way to generate a word burst cloud for your Twitter feed, your Twitter friends feed or even the public timeline feed.

I wonder if ZoomCloud is more concept related rather than word frequency, I’m not sure how Twitterverse and Twitterzone come up with their clouds. Perhaps ZoomCloud is similar to MyFeedz (this is not just a machine tag generator but also an RSS Reader).
Maybe we could employ the concept topic mining methods used by WizAg (formerly Diggol)…let’s not forget PersonalBee.

Anyway, I don’t know about you, but I’d like to pimp up my Twitter sidebar with a few ZoomClouds, one for my feed, and one for me and my friends feed.
Why not throw a calendar in while we are there, perhaps via 30 boxes blog timeline…see more.

Also check out twitter.start4all, another Twitter directory, I listed a few others here.

[ADDED 12/04/07: Twitterment : search and trends for Twitter]