Blurring the Lines

What is a blog vs. a tweet vs. a website vs. a Facebook newsfeed or a Facebook wall posting?

It is all starting to blur, isn’t it?

This is a terrific article on NYTimes.com. Read this one.

It augers well for people who use a service such as TweetDeck where for example my blog posts also get turned into tweets and into Facebook newsfeeds to reach a wide audience of friends and interested parties.

It also hints that blogs that are a part of a great network of other like-minded sites will do well and morph into major media properties and that singular blog sites will struggle as islands with no where to go and servicing a shrinking audience.

Twitter Wants To Be Like Facebook

Facebook wants to be like Twitter.

Google wants to be more social.

Microsoft wants to be more like Google.

Bing is growing. Google is flat.

Foursquare is cool.

Groupon is real.

AddThis is way up in sharing.

Amazon is innovating and taking virtual currencies.

Twitter makes nice videos and understands it brand. Click here. I will still use TweetDeck but this is a wise move by Twitter.

Facebook to respond? TweetDeck to respond?

A Three-Headed Monster

I have been hard at work on my blog for three years now. I blog anywhere from 3 to 6 times per day.

Using a new service from TweetDeck, I now blog as usual but my blog posts automatically go into my status update on Facebook as well as into my Twitter account, TedLeonsis.

So I have created a three-headed monster and hope I am not intruding too much on your time and pixels.

This kind of interoperability is very impressive to me. Write once and publish many places at the same time - what a great idea!