October 28, 2005
Yahoo! Social Media Tools
Matt McAllister has done more real work at Yahoo in three months than many corporate dweebs do in an entire lifetime. Matt first went to Yahoo (from IDG) back in July and I ran into him there - while schmoozing at the cafeteria scene - one fine summer day.
"Yo - lets' schmooze RedirectThis!" he says.
I say "Right on - we renamed ReBlog.org and now we're trying to figure out how to deploy it. We need it for our DLAs - but there's no reason we all can't use it."
"Well I'm working on something similar - let's talk." So Matt and I get together and schmooze and now he's released the first version of the grand, chiclet strategy - Yahoo! Social Media Tools.
There's a mail list for those who wish to participate in moving this sort of stuff - forward. You can bet I'll be there.
OK - so what is it?
This first version of Yahoo! Social Media Tools features standard chiclet buttons for:
- Save to My Web (which is the Yahoo bookmarlet/delicious clone thinie)ut standardizing on chiclets?- Blog This (Oh my God - just what we've been waiting for!)
- Print this (even cooler) - which will enable you (the software/page/content developer to enable folks to print your page to their local printer. Easily.
Aren't you tired of all the DAM chiclets? Shouldn't we all standardize on them and set up web services to enable us to customize these chiclets to our OWN behavior, favorite tools or destinations. And god forbid - enable interop between each other?
Now let's see - now that we can Blog This to Y! 360 - where else might you wanna blog to?
HHHmmm - and if there was a web service that could enable me to DECIDE where I wanted to send my blog post (in other words - which tool) then that might be coolio to. And if this web service was open source, free, not controlled by Yahoo, but supported by Yahoo - well dam, that might even be coolio-icious. And the source was available so anyone could set one up and run it - or use the MIMEhandler or the Greasemonkey script to discover 'Blog This' compatible content.
Just think - folks could put little chiclets on their micro-content (or even just plain old blog posts) and folks could click and send these posts directly to their tool.
Dam - you mean like what Radio Userland was doing 3-4 years ago and nobody else has even done - since? Damm! That's cool.
:-)
It was originally called ReBlg.org - but we've renamed it - RedirectThis.com - but maybe we'll just call it 'Blog This'. Sounds good to me.
Oh - did I forget to tell you that RedirectThis supports microcontent structured blogging sites like this and maintains the integrity of the microcontent when you send it to new kidns of Structured Blogging tools?
Oooops sorry. And I did I forget to tell you that we're baking this into everything we do?
