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Identifying the same content on multiple services
As the social web has grown, we find ourselves, more and more, cross-posting content to different service. For example, when I post a photo to Instagram, I often cross-post it to Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Flickr. In the process of developing this latest version of JeffCroft.com (which pulls in my content from several social networks), I found myself wishing there were a way to identify the same content in multiple places.
Each place that photo goes adds some metadata to it. I wanted to collect all of this metadata and display the photo as one item on JeffCroft.com that, for example, included both how many Flickr comments the photo got and how many Instragram likes it got — and include links to this piece of content on all the networks it exists on.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.