LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter — all of them seem to want to know what I’m doing at the moment, but I can’t even imagine trying to update them all individually.
Enter HelloTxt, a client for all your microblogging platforms. It supports all the sites listed above, plus Pownce, Bebo, Jaiku, hi5, Plaxo, Tumblr and a bunch more I’ve never even heard of. And it’s free!
The user interface is incredibly simple. Your dashboard is a posting form with your default services checked (you can uncheck them if you don’t want to post a given message to a particular service). It also shows your recent posting history:
Another screen lets you input your account information for the various services and determine which ones are checked by default when you post:
There’s also a timeline screen which serves as a client for some of the services. It doesn’t support LinkedIn yet, though, Facebook is “coming soon” and with it being a static HTML page, it’s not a very functional Twitter client (I use Twhirl myself).
This is yet another small piece of the “social networking client” we envision in The Emergence of The Relationship Economy. Combine this with FriendFeed, Quotably (but across multiple platforms), a profile aggregator and an Ajax-based personalized home page, and now you’re talking about something really compelling. I just want them all in one neatly integrated service.
In the meantime, HelloTxt is a new essential in my toolkit.
[...] giving rise consolidation and centralized management tools. The one I’m looking at today is HelloTxt, which allows one to provide a status update to all (up to 16, currently) networks at one [...]
I don’t know who came up with this master mind plan. Though I would love to meet them and tell them personally how thankful I am for the idea of Hello Txt.
God bless; James
Scott,
This is indeed a very helpful tool. Thanks for passing it along. http://strategic-alliances.blogspot.com
Yep, this is the type of service I have been looking for! Thanks for the post!
Robert Stanke
http://www.robertstanke.com
Hi Scott,
I have been using HelloTxt since the minute that I read your post on April 8! I loved using it through the Facebook application for the easiest access. Unfortunately, it stopped working last week. Now I have to go to the website which is not as convenient, but better than beofre HelloTxt!
Thanks for all the wonderful information that you provide.
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