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I’ve added new social media applications to my repertoire this weekend:

Plurk, Brightkite and Ping.fm.

This is a lot to handle on top of the other social media applications I’m managing but I’ll survive. What’s great about all of this is the interconnected nature of it all and as a developer I’m encouraged by the small but steady steps of progress on this macro scale. The best part is that I identified a service overlap between a desktop product I use on the Mac called Moodblast and Ping.fm but rather than sitting on my laurels or dreaming of a day when there’s a better option, I contacted the makers of Moodblast over at Circle Six Design and pleaded my case! Low and behold, only mere hours after pressing the submit button on a comment form, Brett, over there at Circle Six got back to me, talked to me like I was a friend and promises to enhance his software.

In this day and age, as a consumer I am as much a part of the solution as is the product developer!