One of the things I’ve been lamenting about twitter<\/a> is that it’s replaced del.icio.us<\/a> as the “place where I put interesting links” … ie. links my friends might be interested in. This means that I don’t really have a good, structured repository of links like I used to have with delicious. The problem is that twitter and delicious do a similar thing – let you share information – from a totally different philosophical starting point. <\/p>\n

Delicious is a database designed to collect and organize URLs, which you can also share. <\/p>\n

Twitter is a conversational tool, that also allows you to share URLs. <\/p>\n

So delicious is built as an organizable archive; while twitter is built as an ephemeral transmission device.<\/p>\n

But what I’ve found is that I want to do both: transmit interesting links, but *also* archive them for future reference. So I want to link the two services. I asked on Twitter if anyone knew how; Jordan (blog<\/a> – twitter<\/a>) pointed me to twitticious<\/a> (review<\/a>), by Alex Girard<\/a> which, I think, does exactly<\/s> what I want, unfortunately with some problems, but the meat of what I want twitticious does:<\/p>\n

1. I post a URL to twitter, with a bit of text
\n2. twitticious then sends that post to delicious, with the twit text as the title, and the URL as the URL<\/p>\n

I now am able to transmit my twits, and archive the URLs in a nicely structured\/able database.<\/p>\n

It’s so simple. And all you have to do to get it to work is:
\n-give twitticious your twitter name
\n-give twitticious your delicious name\/password (hopefully not<\/s>probably too much of a security threat).<\/p>\n

Problem 1: the delicious entries aren’t tagged, so you have to do that in a separate step.
\nPotential Solution: have twitticious automatically tag: “from:twitter” … so I can easily find & tag those entries<\/p>\n

Problem 2: twitticious uses the twitter’s tinyurl as the URL it posts to delicious
\nPotential solution: could the true URL be extracted and posted instead? <\/p>\n

Problem 3: Apparently it can’t be turned off
\nPotential Solution: you could just change your delicious pw, and that should do the trick, I think. <\/p>\n

UPDATE: Problem 4: The password thing. Probably too much of a security threat.
\nPotential solution: I don’t know.<\/p>\n

(PS what do you think gives the CIA more information: my Facebook account or my del.icio.us account?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I’ve been lamenting about twitter is that it’s replaced del.icio.us as the “place where I put interesting links” … ie. links…<\/p>\n