Normally I’m pretty good about keeping personal stuff separated from the tech news and commentary here, but I set up a new personal weblog for myself at http://kadesoto.com/.
Please drop by if you’re in the mood for shorter, less formal, occasionally personal posts!
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Finally, a web service offers open arms to Powncers where Six Apart fell short: Soup.io, a great aggregation and lifestreaming tool I’ve blogged about before, has just released a beta Pownce Migration Tool designed to help refugee Powncers make a home with another great service. You can access this tool at http://www.soup.io/pownce, a site that warmly reads, “Been abandoned by your web app? We’ve built this migration tool to allow you to give Soup a shot and see if it might be the right home for you.”
The Soup.io guys have worked to make sure this process is super simple. You enter your old Pownce username, password, and e-mail address, and the system begins to upload all of your previous public Pownce messages to a new account. Here’s a shot of the simple interface:
After entering in your information, in no time at all Soup has constructed a brand new microblog for you filled with your old messages. It was a pleasant surprise to see that the photos, videos, and other files embedded within my Pownce posts correctly translated over to rich media items on my brand new Soup (which you can check out by going to soup.io/andytest.)
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As you can see, the Migration Tool even uploads my Pownce avatar image and personal (public) details from my account and prepopulates my Soup account information with the same data. Sweet!
I really love Soup and think it’s probably the best microblogging application out there today, but the caring the service has shown members of Pownce has really gone above and beyond my personal expectations. The climate on Pownce right now is bitter and unhappy, and the Soup team recognizes this.
I only have a few guffs with the service as it stands: first, the Migration Tool wouldn’t let me import my Pownce messages into my existing Soup account (which I’d like to continue using). Secondly, they can’t do anything with my private messages– but as there’s not necessarily a structure that supports this on Soup, that’s not so bad (and perhaps it’s best that those messages remain on Pownce, anyway).
Edit: I’ve been shown that you can import into an existing Soup. You’ve just got to be logged in first. That was easy!
All in all, though, Soup has done a fantastic job welcoming the Pownce community, and I really recommend that each and every reader go out and play around with this fantastic web service.
If you decide to start a new Soup account, be sure to friend me!
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Enormous opportunities in social media for student organizations
by Andy DeSoto on December 15, 2008
Why? As I upload beautiful concert footage in 720p, a format heretofore rarely utilized in wide distribution, it’s occurring to me that I am uploading the only high definition video footage of wind bands on either YouTube or Facebook.
Why is this important?
I upload concert videos to social media sites for two main reasons: (1) so that current members of the ensemble can enjoy archival copies of their performance and refer back to them for academic use or personal enjoyment, and (2) so that the community outside William & Mary can see a little bit about what the Wind Symphony performs on a regular basis. The fact that I have the only HD concert footage online benefits both my purposes.
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