Welcome to twitterfeed.com

Here is the email auto response from Twitterfeed telling you how to setup your feed post.

Welcome to Twitterfeed!

There's just a few simple steps necessary to get your RSS feeds to publish to Twitter and other services. On the Create New Feed page:

1. Connect your Twitter account to Twitterfeed

2. Copy-Paste your RSS feed URL into Twitterfeed

3. Use the advanced settings to customize how the feed is tweeted. (Optional)

Then just click Create Feed and you're done!

Please note that when you add feeds, it takes Twitterfeed about an hour to initially process them. However once that's done your feeds should be published within minutes from then on.

Once your feeds are up and running, your dashboard will show you stats on how many people have clicked on each post. You'll be able to compare posts and see just how Twitterfeed is helping to build your traffic.

How it all came together

The Issue: trying to automate all of my different blog postings, picture uploads and other content to one feed location for me to work with. I have two Twitter accounts bappleby (personal) and bobstechtalk (associated with my professional side) and I have one Facebook account Bob Appleby that I wanted all my info to post to. By using friendfeed, I was able to combine several feed services to be pulled and included in this one area. There are currently 58 services that have defined on Friendfeed for you to use to do this. Some of them like the BLOG service, will allow you to add any blog site to your feed which is how I got my Squarespace and LiveSpaces accounts posting. You can also add Twitter and Facebook feeds but be careful if you are planning to pull or push to either of those sites from here, you don’t want to create an endless circle of posts between all of these sites.

Here is a complete list of all of the services currently available through Friendfeed:

Once I had my Friendfeed collecting data correctly I was able to go to Facebook and set up my wall  to pull the RSS feed from Friendfeed automatically. You will find this under the options link right under the share button for posting new feeds.  When you click on options you will get a new link in the same place called Settings. Click on the Settings link and a new dialog box will appear.

You are allowed one Blog/RSS site that you can pull from. Click on that from the list and you can paste the location you want to pull from. I posted the RSS from my Friendfeed into the box and it pulled it down just fine.

 http://friendfeed.com/?auth=PLaYbotBMT4Mia4b&format=atom

Press the Update button and you have it saved and you will see your Facebook Wall populate from your feed from Friendfeed.

Now I mentioned that I am also feeding Twitter. I am doing this from two different programs. One, Friendfeed allows me to post from the different feeds I am pulling from to a single Twitter account. So I set up the Twitter tool in Friendfeed and setup that just my personal blog and SmugMug entries were posted to Twitter from here.

I then set up Twitterfeed pointing to BobsTechTalk at Squarespace and created entries to push posts to both my personal and professional Twitter accounts.

You have a few settings that you can add to the post as shown below.

If there anymore tweaks that I find, I will post them here as update comments. Hope this helps you out with your internet publishing.

Yea! It worked

Twitterfeed finally updated and now seems to be posting just fine. I have Friendfeed pulling from all of my sites so everything is coming into one place including smugmug. I’ll have to see how that works.

Trying to automate can be very frustrating

I have been working since 5am this morning trying to get the postings that I make to automatically post to Twitter. I had to go through all my old postings and delete them all because they pointed to areas in Squarespace that no longer existed and you can’t have that happening to frustrate your readers. So that is all cleaned up. Now I have set up two accounts in twitter, one linked to me personally and the other using the moniker BobsTechTalk. I have set up twitterfeed to push posts from here to both sites and I am hoping that this will cause it to happen. Let’s see if does with this post.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

A recent survey reported on by CNET Security writer Lance Whitney, asked the question: “Hey, Why do people respond to Spam?” The response from almost a third of the consumers admitted to responding to a message they suspected to be spam. They also reported that about 80 percent doubted their computers were at risk of ever being infected malware that might be capable of causing other damage without their knowledge. The study is based on interviews with 800 computer users in the U.S. and Canada who said they were not "security experts" and who used e-mail addresses not managed by an IT department.

The results are pretty scary and I hope that bringing this to your attention will remind you to be careful of the dangers you face when viewing and responding to unsolicited and unknown email senders. If you are interested in reading the 60-page survey, it is available at no cost on the MAAWG Web site, www.MAAWG.org. Look for the paper entitled: "A Look at Consumers' Awareness of Email Security and Practices or 'Of Course I Never Reply to Spam, Except Sometimes'"

About the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is where the messaging industry comes together to work against spam, viruses, denial-of-service attacks and other online exploitation. MAAWG (www.MAAWG.org) represents almost one billion mailboxes from some of the largest network operators worldwide. It is the only organization addressing messaging abuse holistically by systematically engaging all aspects of the problem, including technology, industry collaboration and public policy. MAAWG leverages the depth and experience of its global membership to tackle abuse on existing networks and new emerging services. Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., MAAWG is an open forum driven by market needs and supported by major network operators and messaging providers.

Backstage with Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft has put together a few videos on this site to demonstrate some of the new features of Microsoft Office 2010. Currently there are only three interviews but they plan on producing more so come back often to see what they have added.

First Take: Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview | The Download Blog - Download.com

I was a Microsoft regional meeting back in May when I first saw some of the capabilities of this new version of Microsoft Office and I was very impressed with what I saw then. This article outlines some of the highpoints of the new capabilities of Office 2010 which are quite significant. This product won’t be available until sometime next year. If you are doing a lot of collaborative work or have many different devices that you use for production editing, make extensive use of video in your PowerPoint Presentations or graphics in your publications you will find many things that you will want to use in this new version of Office.

First Take: Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview | The Download Blog - Download.com