Too Many Tools

For some time now I have been researching tools for making the social networking (mainly Twitter) experience easier for me, both on a personal and business level.  I have found that there are too many tools out there that just do 1-3 pieces of what I want.  After reviewing what seems to be hundreds of tools, there is not 1 tool that does it all or even comes close.

I feel that every designer does just enough to be different, but never enough to create a REALLY good and usable tool…something that combines everything a business would need.  I understand that there are “performance” or bandwidth issues when you get into that many pieces, but I’m sure a good developer that actually spent more than an hour putting some of these sites together could do so much more.

I’m not putting down the designers and developers for what they have created.  They are all useful tools, but I don’t feel they all do enough.

Here is a list of just some of the tools I’ve reviewed lately.  They are in no specific order and don’t necessarily have something to do with Twitter, but they definitely have something to do with automating or “mashing up” parts of social netowrking.

• ping.fm
• twitterfeed.com
• Hootsuite.com
• Twindexx.com
• Tweetspinner.com
• Twibs.com
• Twellow.com
• Tweepme.com
• Flashtweet.com
• dossy.org/twitter/karma/
• futuretweets.com
• socialtoo.com
• twaitter.com
• Twitproquo.com
• Gizapage.com
• Tweetmyblog.com
• Tweet-sql.com

I welcome any and all comments.  I am by no means an expert in this field (yet), so every opportunity to learn will be taken.

Enjoy and now go “Social It Up”,

~W~

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