Dancing “Sexy” Robots.

They’ve been working on dancing robots in Japan (they being a company called Kawada).

This is version one, from what I can (badly) translate from Japanese:

Here’s the current version. Enjoy?

Simplifying My Social Media Workflow with Dlvr.IT

This is just a quick note to say that I’m particularly in love with a simple app out there called Dlvr.IT.

It’s helped me pare down my social media workflow.

You know, that problem that Louis Gray seems to address once every six months? Should I automatically send Google Reader shares to Twitter? Should I share Twitter to Google Buzz? What about Buzz to Facebook? The list goes on and on.

I had said (publicly) that when I stop to consider organizing my social media workflow, I get overwhelmed.  It’s because I’m on a lot of services and I have much of the same audience and friends everywhere, but with different expectations in each place.

On Twitter, I do a fair amount of link sharing, but it’s mostly my work at SiliconANGLE. On Facebook, I have a subset of my Twitter audience there mixed in with college and high school friends. On MySpace, it’s entirely friends from my hometown of Tyler. On Google Reader, I share out a lot of the same things I do on Twitter, but with a much higher volume (around 40-50 a day, sometimes), with a lot more humor thrown in.

With Dlvr.IT, I can now tag my shares and comments in my various places and send them where I want. If I’m on Google Buzz, I can put in #tw, and it’ll go to Twitter. If I leave a comment on someone’s blog, I can tag it #fb in the text somewhere and through BackType it’ll go to Facebook. I can leave a Facebook comment and tag it #my and it’ll go to MySpace as well (that doesn’t really happen a lot, though, as you’d rightly guess).

I’m not sure that this is how the system was envisioned to work, but it’s how I use it, and it’s taken the pain out of how I share stuff. It removes the need for me to wait for Salmon (at least for the reasons I’m most in dire need of it now), it eliminates the need for me to set up precarious content daisy chains, and it removes the need for me to explain it all in a blog post with handy-dandy flowcharts.

More on Facebook’s New “Likes”

I briefly mentioned in my previous post here (and the one from yesterday on SiliconANGLE) that the new “like” functionality from Facebook isn’t going to be useful for small to mid-sized content producers.

I saw my first “like” implementation in the wild just now.  Over at Techmeme.

This may not be the best example, but I think it illustrates my issue with the Like button: it’s not that useful from either a publisher perspective, and certainly not from a user perspective in this sort of implementation.

Where does that Like go?

More importantly, are there really only 59 people who like Techmeme? Is my “like” for Techmeme indicative of a permanent state of affinity or is for whatever the headline at the time might be?

This is probably not Techmeme’s permanent implementation, but I watched the number actually stay exactly the same as I reloaded the site once every five minutes over the course of a half hour or so.

All this to say to my panicking and outraged friends – this isn’t going to work for everyone, and that will be quickly realized by the early adopters of these new features.

Follow Me on Google Buzz. Now.

Run, don’t walk, to your GMail account and add me.

Click here, in fact, and follow me. Do you really want Pete Cashmore and Robert Scoble to be the only power users on the system?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

This is how the trouble starts [Carnivorous Robots]

I read a story a long time ago (I forget the author or even the title) that talked about a world that evolved on one of the moons of Jupiter – it was an entire ecosystem that mirrored our own consisting entirely of robots.  I’ll refrain from synopsizing the entire plot here, but it sparked my imagination at the time, because it made it seem entirely plausible.

Things like these robots only do more to solidify that belief.

I for one …

Optimus Prime Does David Letterman

In other robot news, Optimus Prime does the top 10 on Letterman.

[h/t: Deadline Hollywood via Sean]