Being social isn’t easy

by:  Alexander Zacherl on 29.06.2010
 facebook   flickr   media   setup   social   twitter   youtube 

Well it is, if you're just one guy with a lot of time on his hands. But if you're trying to develop a cool game and set up a solid development studio, then lots of time is something that you probably haven't had in a while.

This is my problem right now. Besides the everyday work on Astroslugs it's my job to keep you guys updated on what we're doing, how we're doing and why we're doing it. This is why I'm pushing hard to get at least a minimum of web presence. With our Corporate Design and our web site still in the works, we'll have to rely on a place-holder site that holds together all of our community pages for now. [Note: We'll probably change the plain-html-look to something more eye-friendly nextr week.]

Yesterday I was setting up a Twitter account, a Facebook page, a Flickr profile, a a YouTube channel and this Tumblr blog. Today I'm trying to get to know each of these better, as I haven't used Flickr, YouTube and Tumblr before. 

My first learning: Trying to integrate those services is hard. While there are lots of possibilitites to integrate one tool with another, it's pretty hard to get them all integrated into one working set. What I want this setup to do is that it should automatically notify you on Twitter and Facebook, whenever I post a new blog entry, video or picture set. This works fine in some cases (Twitter) and pretty much sucks in others (Facebook page). Well, I'm still trying. =D

If you have any helpful information for me, feel free to drop a comment.

Alex Zacherl

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