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September 25, 2007

I Keep Updating, So I Have Less Time to Actually Do Anything

Ok, the social web is officially ridiculous.

What I'm referring to is the amount of crap I have to update everytime I want to do anything. It's gotten so bad today, as I prepare to leave for 10 days in Budapest, I'm almost afraid of missing my flight.

What's there to do?

Twitter something witty
Update my FaceBook status
Add the trip to Dopplr
Set iChat and Skype status
Blog about it in various places

And finally, check in for my flight. 7 blessed hours offline.

When are the social web integration apps coming? Please, when? I'll invest.

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Joseph Smarr - our friend Larry's son - has been working on this at Plaxo. We shall see.

http://www.plaxo.com/info/opensocialgraph

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