SyncMood and Twype for Windows

SyncMood and Twype copy your twitter updates into Skype for Windows. I've had great success with Twype for a while. Now I'm trying SyncMood, happily so far. Thanks, Andrej. This is part of a few broader patterns. Open Platforms. Skype's and Twitter's APIs are public, free, and easy. So people can build apps that work with them. Social Sync. Update once, see it everywhere you want it seen. As a category, this is getting smarter. I'm seeing useful features like Deduplication. Your update gets caught in feedback loops among networks, creating echoes. Deduping dampens the feedback loops.  Time stamp preservation. Assures an update's original date/time is passed through, not the time it was last passed along. Accurate provenance. Keeping metadata about an update's original system/service source. Lifestream Shaping. Setting up filters and agents so you and others see only what matters, at the best times, in the best media, in the right contexts. One response to social network overload.  Data Portability. The social platforms, and the sync and lifestreaming tools which use them, put some power in user hands. It puts a little proof behind a promise that your-data-is-really-yours.