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Switch-A-Bit: upload to flickr and send to twitter.

I don’t have anything against TwitPic (or any other of those mobile photo to twitter apps), but I already use flickr to store my photos. If I use TwitPic, I’ll have to re-upload my photo to flickr or just lose out. With all the social networks, your intellectual property can get spread out and lost, so I like to keep flickr as a basecamp for all my photos.

However, Flickr doesn’t allow me to directly tweet pictures. Though I have streamlined the process of blogging from my phone using email-to-flickr, I wanted a way to tweet my snaps without having to send anything twice, and without using another photo hosting service. And by god I think I found it. Enter Switch-A-Bit.

Switch-A-Bit is a switchboard/router/thing-of-magic for your social networking needs. Sign up and connect it to your accounts, and switch-a-bit monitors your activity, routing content back and forth along the channels you set up.

Switch-A-Bit lets you set trigger words to activate the channels preventing you from overloading your social networks with a lot of useless data, like what happens with the inadvertent blog spammers on twitter. For example, on my flickr-to-twitter channel, when I’m posting from my phone, I append (#snap) to my post. It uploads to flickr then on to my blog, like normal. Switch-A-Bit catches the “#snap” and posts a tweet with a link to my photo.

Switch-A-Bit is as simple to set up as dragging and dropping. In fact, I was a little confused at first that it was working because there wasn’t a lot of set up or even options. Links are processed for twitter by a new sister service called bit.ly. As the service progresses (its still in beta), You can be sure to see a bunch more social network added. Right now they offer connections to blogger, facebook, flick, jaiku, tumblr, twitter, and your wordpress blog.

Switch-A-Bit

Twittertale snitches on your potty-mouthed Tweets.

I’ve got a bit of a potty mouth. In fact, a quick search in my blog reveals about 11 pages of choice worded posts. Alright, so I curse like a sailor, and I’ll never stop. I do tone it down a bit around the old folk, children under 2, and clergy that i haven’t slept with, but pretty much I’m a foul mouthed jerk. Deal with it.

My tweets are also a bit vulgar at times, and thats understandable, its my venting machine. I’ve noticed that a lot of my other twitter pals tend to do this as well. and there is a new site called Twittertale that rats us out, reposting the foul tweets.  It’s not suprising I found myself on the naughty list a few times, like today…

If you twitter and you tend to be a bit sassy, you might wanna search to see if you made the list. Regardless, if you enjoy the foul mouth rants of others, subscribe to the feed. Now fuck off.

• Twittertale

Social Networking will get you Every Time

The email you send to your boss because you want to go to that awesome party that your stupid job would otherwise obstruct your attendance of:

The picture you upload to Facebook, because Facebook rules your life and demands that you do so:

Then, because Facebook also rules the life of your coworkers, someone notices it and figures out that you really didn’t have a family emergency. He shows your boss, who chuckles and sends you this reply, with condemning photo attached, and bcc’d to the entire office:

Your coworker then, realizes that this is a blogging goldmine, sends this to valleywag, which results in the entire blogosphere reposting it and making you an example of how social networking destroys your privacy and the once foolproof “family emergency email.”

• Via - Joe.My.God.
• From - Valleywag